Green functions of interacting systems in the strongly localized regime

Abstract: We have developed an approach to calculate the single-particle Green function of a one-dimensional many-body system in the strongly localized limit at zero temperature. Our approach, based on the locator expansion, sums the contributions of all possible forward scattering paths in configuration space. We demonstrate for fermions that the Green function factorizes when the system can be splited into two non interacting regions. This implies that for nearest neighbors interactions the Green function factorizes at every link connecting two sites with the same occupation. As a consequence we show that the conductance distribution function for interacting systems is log-normal, in the same universality class as for non-interacting systems. We have developed a numerical procedure to calculate the ground state and the Green function, generating all possible paths in configuration space. We compare the localization length computed with our procedure with the one obtained via exact diagonalization. The latter smoothly converges to our results as the disorder increases.