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Interaction-rotation driven localization-delocalization of eigenstate in Fock space: An exact diagonalization study on trapped Bose gas

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Pith's one-line read Increasing interactions and rotation drive delocalization of eigenstates in the Fock space of trapped bosons.

desk verdict Standard small-N ED numerics on rotating bosons; interaction and rotation both increase Fock-space spreading via IPR and entropies, but no scaling means the transition language is overstated. read the letter →

arxiv 2607.01888 v1 pith:ORJ7WTON submitted 2026-07-02 cond-mat.quant-gas

classification cond-mat.quant-gas
keywords localization-delocalizationtrappedbosonsexactdiagonalizationFockspacerotationeffectsinteractionstrengthentanglemententropyinverseparticipationratio
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The paper investigates localization-delocalization transitions in the eigenstates of interacting bosons confined in a trap, both with and without rotation. Using exact diagonalization, it finds that stronger interactions cause eigenstates to spread more widely across the Fock space basis, lowering the inverse participation ratio while raising entropy measures. Rotation further promotes this delocalization, though the effect saturates at high angular momenta in smaller systems. These patterns intensify with more bosons, and delocalized states display stronger entanglement. The study unifies several measures to characterize how interaction, rotation, and particle number control the spread.

What carries the argument

Exact diagonalization within fixed total angular momentum subspaces, using the inverse participation ratio, Shannon entropy, and von Neumann entanglement entropy to quantify the spread of eigenstate weight in Fock space.

What would settle it

Performing the analysis for boson numbers large enough that the saturation effect either persists or disappears entirely would test whether the reported interplay holds.

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Core claim

In the non-rotating case, a transition from localized to delocalized behavior is observed with increasing interaction strength. The transition is characterized by a decrease in IPR and a corresponding increase in entropy measures, indicating spread of eigenstate weight over all the basis states in the Hilbert space. In the presence of rotation, the system is driven further toward delocalization. For moderate angular momentum, the eigenstates exhibit partial spreading, while at higher angular momenta a saturation behavior emerges, where further increase in rotation has a limited effect on the localization properties. However, the saturation weakens with increasing system size, indicating a no

Load-bearing premise

The trends seen in small systems with feasible boson numbers reflect the core physics of the transition despite the rapid growth of the Hilbert space with particle number.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • The delocalization effect strengthens with increasing boson number due to growth in Hilbert space dimension.
  • Saturation of delocalization at high rotation becomes less pronounced in larger systems.
  • Localized states exhibit weaker entanglement while delocalized states show stronger entanglement.
  • The three measures provide a consistent characterization of the transition.

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Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Rotation could be tuned to control the degree of state delocalization in bosonic many-body systems.
  • The weakening of saturation with system size suggests that in the large-particle limit rotation may induce complete delocalization without bound.
  • These findings may connect to questions of ergodicity in rotating quantum gases.
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Summary. The manuscript performs exact diagonalization of a trapped interacting Bose gas within fixed total angular momentum subspaces for small boson numbers N. It reports a localization-delocalization transition in Fock space as interaction strength increases (signaled by decreasing IPR and increasing Shannon and von Neumann entropies), with rotation further promoting delocalization; the effect strengthens with N, and a saturation at high angular momentum weakens with larger N. Three measures are shown to give consistent signals.

Significance. If the finite-size observations survive extrapolation, the work supplies a unified numerical characterization of how interaction, rotation, and particle number jointly control Fock-space spreading in small rotating Bose systems, with the internal consistency across IPR, information entropy, and entanglement entropy constituting a strength of the small-system study.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: the central claim of an interaction-driven localization-delocalization transition (and its further enhancement by rotation) rests on trends observed for small finite N without finite-size scaling, data collapse, or extrapolation to N o∞; the reported strengthening with N and weakening saturation are noted but not quantified via scaling, leaving open whether the changes are crossovers rather than a transition whose location or character persists in the thermodynamic limit.
  2. [Abstract] Abstract: the statement that 'the effect becomes more pronounced with increasing number of bosons due to the increase of the Hilbert space dimension' is presented as supporting evidence for a transition, yet no systematic study of how the apparent transition point or the saturation regime scales with N is provided, which is load-bearing for interpreting the results as a genuine delocalization transition.

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We thank the referee for the careful reading and constructive feedback. We address the major comments point by point below.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: the central claim of an interaction-driven localization-delocalization transition (and its further enhancement by rotation) rests on trends observed for small finite N without finite-size scaling, data collapse, or extrapolation to N→∞; the reported strengthening with N and weakening saturation are noted but not quantified via scaling, leaving open whether the changes are crossovers rather than a transition whose location or character persists in the thermodynamic limit.

    Authors: The manuscript explicitly studies finite systems, as stated in the title, abstract, and introduction, because exact diagonalization is restricted to small N. We report the observed trends toward delocalization with interaction and rotation, and note that these trends strengthen with N, but we make no claim that the behavior constitutes a transition persisting in the thermodynamic limit. No finite-size scaling or extrapolation is performed. The internal consistency across IPR, Shannon entropy, and von Neumann entropy remains a strength for the accessible sizes. We will revise the abstract to emphasize the finite-N scope and remove any implication of thermodynamic-limit behavior. revision: partial

  2. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: the statement that 'the effect becomes more pronounced with increasing number of bosons due to the increase of the Hilbert space dimension' is presented as supporting evidence for a transition, yet no systematic study of how the apparent transition point or the saturation regime scales with N is provided, which is load-bearing for interpreting the results as a genuine delocalization transition.

    Authors: The statement reflects our direct numerical observation that larger N (and thus larger Hilbert-space dimension) permits greater eigenstate spreading. Calculations were performed for multiple N, showing the effect becoming more pronounced. We acknowledge that no systematic scaling analysis of the apparent transition point or saturation regime with N is included. We will revise the abstract to present this as a finite-size observation rather than evidence for a thermodynamic transition. revision: partial

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  • Whether the observed trends constitute a true transition whose character persists in the thermodynamic limit, as this requires finite-size scaling and extrapolation to N→∞ beyond the reach of exact diagonalization.

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No circularity: direct numerical outputs from exact diagonalization

full rationale

The paper performs exact diagonalization in fixed-Lz subspaces to obtain eigenstates, then directly computes IPR, Shannon entropy, and von Neumann entropy from those states. All reported trends (IPR drop with interaction, further delocalization with rotation, saturation at high Lz) are numerical observations, not derived quantities that reduce to fitted inputs or self-citations by construction. No analytical steps, ansatze, or uniqueness theorems are invoked. The finite-size limitation noted by the skeptic is a validity concern, not circularity.

Assumptions & free parameters 0 free parameters · 1 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The central claim rests on standard non-relativistic quantum mechanics for identical bosons in a harmonic trap plus the numerical validity of exact diagonalization for small Hilbert spaces; no new free parameters, ad-hoc axioms, or invented entities are introduced.

assumptions (1)
  • standard math Standard construction of the bosonic Fock space and the many-body Hamiltonian for particles in a harmonic trap with contact interactions
    Invoked throughout the abstract when describing the eigenspectrum and basis states.

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We investigate the localization-delocalization transition and entanglement structure in a finite system of interacting bosons in non-rotating and rotating cases. The many-body eigenspectrum is obtained via exact diagonalization within subspaces of fixed total angular momentum, and the structure of the ground state is analyzed using the inverse participation ratio (IPR), the Shannon entropy (information entropy) and the von Neumann entanglement entropy. In the non-rotating case, a transition from localized to delocalized behavior is observed with increasing interaction strength. The transition is characterized by a decrease in IPR and a corresponding increase in entropy measures, indicating spread of eigenstate weight over all the basis states in the Hilbert space. The effect becomes more pronounced with increasing number of bosons due to the increase of the Hilbert space dimension. In the presence of rotation, the system is driven further toward delocalization. For moderate angular momentum, the eigenstates exhibit partial spreading, while at higher angular momenta a saturation behavior emerges, where further increase in rotation has a limited effect on the localization properties. However, the saturation weakens with increasing system size, indicating a nontrivial interplay between rotation and number of bosons. The consistent behavior of IPR, information entropy and von Neumann entanglement entropy demonstrates that these measures provide a unified characterization of the localization-delocalization transition. The results highlight the combined role of interaction strength, rotation and number of bosons in driving the system towards delocalized state. We observe a connection between localization-delocalization and entanglement, with localized states exhibiting weaker entanglement and delocalized states showing stronger entanglement.

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