Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid-Bose glass phase transition in a system of 1D disordered fermions with pair hoppings

Abstract

We consider a one-dimensional system of spinless fermions with single particle and pair hoppings in a potential on-site disorder. The pair hopping term violates integrability of the model and enhances superconducting fluctuations in the bulk of the liquid. By means of the Abelian bosonization and extensive numerical DMRG calculations we provide evidence that sufficiently large pair hopping amplitude guarantees the survival of the Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid phase at weak disorder. Large disorder drives the system to the Bose glass phase, realising the Giamarchi-Schulz scenario in such a system.