# Charge and spin-specific local integrals of motion in a disordered Hubbard model

## TL;DR

This paper investigates how charge and spin localization in a disordered Hubbard model are interconnected, revealing symmetry and size-dependent effects using charge- and spin-specific measures of localization.

## Contribution

It introduces a novel analysis of charge and spin localization in the disordered Hubbard model using specific integrals of motion, highlighting symmetry and size effects.

## Key findings

- Localization in one sector can occur with weak disorder if the other sector has strong disorder.
- The required disorder strength in the less disordered sector decreases with system size.
- Localization timescales increase as disorder in the less-disordered sector decreases.

## Abstract

While many-body localization has primarily been studied in systems with a single local degree of freedom, experimental studies of many-body localization in cold atom systems motivate exploration of the disordered Hubbard model. With two coupled local degrees of freedom it is natural to ask how localization in spin relates to disorder in charge and vice versa. Most prior work has addressed disorder in only one of these sectors and often has not used measures of localization which distinguish between charge and spin. Here we explore localization in the Hubbard model with a wide range of independent values of charge and spin disorder, using measures of localization based on charge and spin-specific integrals of motion. Our results demonstrate symmetry between the response of the spin to charge disorder and vice versa, and we find very weak disorder in one channel, so long as the disorder in the other channel is sufficiently strong, results in localization in both channels. The strength of disorder required in the less disordered channel declines as the system size increases. Further, the weaker the disorder in the less-disordered channel, the longer the time scale at which localization appears in the dynamics of this degree of freedom.