Enhanced Drude weight in a 1D system of fermions with pair hopping events

Abstract

In one dimension density-density interactions of particles reduce their mobility and hence the Drude weight, which controls the divergence of the optical conductivity at zero frequency, decreases. We study effects of pair hopping events on this result in a 1D system of spinless fermions. The considered model consists of the usual single-particle hopping and pair hopping terms. In the absence of the density-density interactions, we first show that a variation of the pair hopping amplitude results in a monotonic change of the Drude weight. We next demonstrate that weak nearest-neighbor density-density interactions increase the Drude weight, whereas in the regime of strong interactions the Drude weight decreases as expected. Our numerical findings are supported by bosonization results.