Explicit Local Integrals of Motion for the Many-Body Localized State

Abstract

Recently, it has been suggested that the Many-Body Localized phase can be characterized by local integrals of motion. Here we introduce a Hilbert space preserving renormalization scheme that iteratively finds such integrals of motion exactly. Our method is based on the consecutive action of a similarity transformation using displacement operators. We show, as a proof of principle, localization and the delocalization transition in interacting fermion chains with random onsite potentials. Our scheme of consecutive displacement transformations can be used to study Many Body Localization in any dimension, as well as disorder-free Hamiltonians.

5 pages, 2 figures, and Supplementary Information. Second version contains new numerical results