A phenomenology of certain many-body-localized systems
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
2015-04-07 v1 Quantum Physics
Abstract
We consider isolated quantum systems with all of their many-body eigenstates localized. We define a sense in which such systems are integrable, and discuss a method for finding their localized conserved quantum numbers ("constants of motion"). These localized operators are interacting pseudospins and are subject to dephasing but not to dissipation, so any quantum states of these pseudospins can in principle be recovered via (spin) echo procedures. We also discuss the spreading of entanglement in many-body localized systems, which is another aspect of the dephasing due to interactions between these localized conserved operators.
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@article{arxiv.1305.4915,
title = {A phenomenology of certain many-body-localized systems},
author = {David A. Huse and Vadim Oganesyan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1305.4915},
year = {2015}
}