{"paper":{"title":"Low-frequency conductivity in many-body localized systems","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":["cond-mat.quant-gas","cond-mat.stat-mech"],"primary_cat":"cond-mat.dis-nn","authors_text":"David A. Huse, Eugene Demler, Markus Mueller, Michael Knap, Sarang Gopalakrishnan, Vedika Khemani","submitted_at":"2015-02-26T20:17:29Z","abstract_excerpt":"We argue that the a.c. conductivity $\\sigma(\\omega)$ in the many-body localized phase is a power law of frequency $\\omega$ at low frequency: specifically, $\\sigma(\\omega) \\sim \\omega^\\alpha$ with the exponent $\\alpha$ approaching 1 at the phase transition to the thermal phase, and asymptoting to 2 deep in the localized phase. We identify two separate mechanisms giving rise to this power law: deep in the localized phase, the conductivity is dominated by rare resonant pairs of configurations; close to the transition, the dominant contributions are rare regions that are locally critical or in the"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"1502.07712","kind":"arxiv","version":2},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}