Effects of long-range hopping and interactions on quantum walk in ordered and disordered lattices

Abstract

We study the effects of long-range hopping and long-range inter-particle interactions on quantum walk of hard-core bosons in ideal and disordered one-dimensional lattices. We find that the range of hopping has a much more significant effect on the particle correlation dynamics than the range of interactions. We illustrate that long-range hopping makes the correlation diagrams asymmetric with respect to the sign of the interaction and examine the relative role of repulsive and attractive interactions on the dynamics of scattering by isolated impurities and Anderson localization in dis- ordered lattices. We show that weakly repulsive interactions increase the probability of tunnelling through isolated impurities and decrease the localization.