We study the combined impact of random disorder and electron-electron and electron-hole interactions on the absorption spectra of a three-dimensional Hubbard Hamiltonian. We determine the single-particle Green's function within the typical medium dynamical cluster approximation. We solve the Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE) to obtain the dynamical conductivity. Our results show that increasing disorder strength at a given interaction strength leads to decreased absorption with the dynamical conductivity, systematically going to zero at all frequencies, a fingerprint of a correlation-mediated electron localization. Surprisingly, our data reveal that taking into account the effects of electron-hole interactions through the BSE significantly changes the oscillator strength with a concomitant reduction in the critical disorder strengths $W_c^U$. We attribute this behavior to enhanced quantum correction induced by electron-hole interactions.

• Received 16 May 2018
• Revised 3 August 2018

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.98.085129