On Rare Nonresonant Regions and Subdiffusive Transport in an Interacting Disordered Quantum Chain
Abstract
We study rare nonresonant regions in a canonical one-dimensional disordered quantum spin chain by directly implementing the iterated Schrieffer-Wolff construction underlying the recent work of De Roeck, Giacomin, Huveneers and Prosniak on subdiffusive transport. For finite systems, we compute the probability that a disorder realization remains nonresonant through successive scales of the flow, while separately monitoring operator proliferation and the spatial localization of dressed local observables. The survival probability decays at most exponentially with system size over the numerically accessible regime. Resolving this decay scale by scale yields failure rates associated with successive Schrieffer-Wolff steps. The first rate is obtained analytically in excellent agreement with numerics, while higher-scale rates decrease rapidly throughout the regime studied. These results support the summability mechanism required for exponentially rare but parametrically long nonresonant regions, which provide the insulating bottlenecks responsible for subdiffusive transport. At the smallest couplings studied, the survival probability under our conditions exceeds the rigorous lower bound by six to seven orders of magnitude, demonstrating how conservative the constants required by the proof are while confirming that its underlying physical mechanism is quantitatively visible at accessible scales. More broadly, our results show how direct numerical implementations can provide an independent and physically transparent test of technically demanding constructive proofs, a methodology that may become increasingly useful as machine-assisted proofs become more common.
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BibTeX
@misc{scardicchio2026rare,
title = {{On Rare Nonresonant Regions and Subdiffusive Transport in an Interacting Disordered Quantum Chain}},
author = {A. Scardicchio and S. L. Sondhi},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.13834},
eprint = {2609.13834},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.13834},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - On Rare Nonresonant Regions and Subdiffusive Transport in an Interacting Disordered Quantum Chain
AU - A. Scardicchio
AU - S. L. Sondhi
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/12
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.13834
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.13834
AB - We study rare nonresonant regions in a canonical one-dimensional disordered quantum spin chain by directly implementing the iterated Schrieffer-Wolff construction underlying the recent work of De Roeck, Giacomin, Huveneers and Prosniak on subdiffusive transport. For finite systems, we compute the probability that a disorder realization remains nonresonant through successive scales of the flow, while separately monitoring operator proliferation and the spatial localization of dressed local observables. The survival probability decays at most exponentially with system size over the numerically accessible regime. Resolving this decay scale by scale yields failure rates associated with successive Schrieffer-Wolff steps. The first rate is obtained analytically in excellent agreement with numerics, while higher-scale rates decrease rapidly throughout the regime studied. These results support the summability mechanism required for exponentially rare but parametrically long nonresonant regions, which provide the insulating bottlenecks responsible for subdiffusive transport. At the smallest couplings studied, the survival probability under our conditions exceeds the rigorous lower bound by six to seven orders of magnitude, demonstrating how conservative the constants required by the proof are while confirming that its underlying physical mechanism is quantitatively visible at accessible scales. More broadly, our results show how direct numerical implementations can provide an independent and physically transparent test of technically demanding constructive proofs, a methodology that may become increasingly useful as machine-assisted proofs become more common.
ER -