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Transition to a many-body localized regime in a two-dimensional disordered quantum dimer model

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks 2020-08-06 v2 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

Many-body localization is a unique physical phenomenon driven by interactions and disorder for which a quantum system can evade thermalization. While the existence of a many-body localized phase is now well-established in one-dimensional systems, its fate in higher dimension is an open question. We present evidence for the occurrence of a transition to a many-body localized regime in a two-dimensional quantum dimer model with interactions and disorder. Our analysis is based on the results of large-scale simulations for static and dynamical properties of a consequent number of observables. Our results pave the way for a generic understanding of occurrence of a many-body localization transition in dimension larger than one, and highlight the unusual quantum dynamics that can be present in constrained systems.

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@article{arxiv.1902.04091,
  title  = {Transition to a many-body localized regime in a two-dimensional disordered quantum dimer model},
  author = {Hugo Théveniaut and Zhihao Lan and Gabriel Meyer and Fabien Alet},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.04091},
  year   = {2020}
}

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15 pages, 14 figures, published version

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