Instability of subdiffusive spin dynamics in strongly disordered Hubbard chain

We study spin transport in a Hubbard chain with strong, random, on–site potential and with spin–dependent hopping integrals, $t_{\sigma }$. For the the SU(2) symmetric case, $t_{\uparrow }=t_{\downarrow }$, such model exhibits only partial many-body localization with localized charge and (delocalized) subdiffusive spin excitations. Here, we demonstrate that breaking the SU(2) symmetry by even weak spin–asymmetry, $t_{\uparrow }\mathrm{\ne }{t}_{\downarrow }$, localizes spins and restores full many-body localization. To this end we derive an effective spin model, where the spin subdiffusion is shown to be destroyed by arbitrarily weak $t_{\uparrow }\mathrm{\ne }{t}_{\downarrow }$. Instability of the spin subdiffusion originates from an interplay between random effective fields and singularly distributed random exchange interactions.