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TT 11: Majorana Physics
TT 11.6: Vortrag
Montag, 1. April 2019, 16:30–16:45, H4
Interacting majorana chain in presence of disorder — •Jonas Karcher1, Michael Sonner1, and Alexander Mirlin1,2 — 1KIT, Karlsruhe, Deutschland — 2NRC Kurchatov Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia
We investigate a majorana chain model with potential applications to the description of Kitaev edges. The model exhibits various topological phases which are separated by critical lines. Since the non-interacting system belongs to class BDI one would expect these lines to remain critical in presence of disorder if the interaction is sufficiently weak . Recent numerical studies using DMRG confirm this for attractive interactions. For strong repulsive interactions, these studies find that the system localizes. Our preliminary results show localization also for weak repulsive interaction. We want to understand the mechanism that drives the system into localization despite topological protection. To reach this goal we employ both DMRG calculations and diverse analytical RG-schemes. Our results from DMRG suggest spontaneous breaking of the translation symmetry. This cannot be understood from the weak disorder and weak interaction RG around the clean noninteracting fixed point (FP), where the interaction is irrelevant. Hence we investigate the stability of the infinite randomness FP against weak interaction. The wave functions exhibit (multi)fractality. Correlators are again computed analytically using a SUSY transfer matrix techniques. This approach is augmented by results from exact diagonalization. From their scaling behaviour we want to deduce the interaction RG flow.