Numerical diagonalization analysis of the ground-state superfluid-localization transition in two dimensions

Ground state of the two-dimensional hard-core-boson system in the presence of the quenched random chemical potential is investigated by means of the exact-diagonalization method for the system sizes up to L = 5. The criticality and the DC conductivity at the superfluid-localization transition have been controversial so far. We estimate, with the finite-size scaling analysis, the correlation-length and the dynamical critical exponents as ν = 2.3 ± 0.6 and z = 2, respectively. The AC conductivity is computed with the Gagliano-Balseiro formula, with which the resolvent (dynamical response function) is expressed in terms of the continued-fraction form consisted of Lanczos tri-diagonal elements. Thereby, we estimate the universal DC conductivity as σc(ω → 0) = 0.135 ± 0.01((2e) /h). PACS. 75.10.Jm quantized spin models – 75.10.Nr spin glass and other random models – 75.40.Mg numerical simulation studies