Metal-insulator transition in a random Hubbard model

Abstract

We examine the metal-insulator transition in a half-filled Hubbard model of electrons with random and all-to-all hopping and exchange, and an on-site nonrandom repulsion, the Hubbard $U$. We argue that recent numerical results of Cha et al. [arXiv:2002.07181] can be understood in terms of a deconfined critical point between a disordered Fermi liquid and an insulating spin glass. We find a deconfined critical point in a previously proposed large $M$ theory, which generalizes the SU(2) spin symmetry to $\mathrm{SU}(M)$ and obtains exponents for the electron and spin correlators which agree with those of Cha et al. This critical point is expected to have the maximal quantum Lyapunov exponent. We also present a renormalization group analysis, and argue for the presence of an additional metallic spin glass phase at half-filling and small $U$.