Many-body self-localization in a translation-invariant Hamiltonian
Strongly Correlated Electrons
2017-08-03 v2 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Abstract
We study the statistical and dynamical aspects of a translation-invariant Hamiltonian, without quench disorder, as an example of the manifestation of the phenomenon of many-body localization. This is characterized by the breakdown of thermalization and by information preservation of initial preparations at long times. To realize this, we use quasi-periodic long-range interactions, which are now achievable in high-finesse cavity experiments, to find evidence suggestive of a divergent time-scale in which charge inhomogeneities in the initial state survive asymptotically. This is reminiscent of a glassy behavior, which appears in the ground-state of this system, being also present at infinite temperatures.
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@article{arxiv.1705.00627,
title = {Many-body self-localization in a translation-invariant Hamiltonian},
author = {Rubem Mondaini and Zi Cai},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.00627},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
10 pages, 10 figures; as published