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Avalanches are believed to be the mechanism behind the transition from many-body localization to the thermal phase. We utilize spin chains with constraints to study the physics of quantum avalanches by exact diagonalization of disordered…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-08-04 Shuangyuan Lu

We experimentally study many-body localization (MBL) with ultracold atoms in a weak one-dimensional quasiperiodic potential, which in the noninteracting limit exhibits an intermediate phase that is characterized by a mobility edge. We…

Many-body localization, the persistence against electron-electron interactions of the localization of states with non-zero excitation energy density, poses a challenge to current methods of theoretical and numerical analysis. Numerical…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2014-11-06 Bela Bauer , Chetan Nayak

Can localization persist when interaction grows infinitely stronger than randomness? If so, is it many-body Anderson localization? How about the associated localization transition in the infinite-interaction limit? To tackle these…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-12-06 Chun Chen , Yan Chen , Xiaoqun Wang

We review some recent developments in the statistical mechanics of isolated quantum systems. We provide a brief introduction to quantum thermalization, paying particular attention to the `Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis' (ETH), and the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-04-07 Rahul Nandkishore , David A. Huse

We numerically explore the many body localization (MBL) transition through the lens of the {\it entanglement spectrum}. While a direct transition from localization to thermalization is believed to obtain in the thermodynamic limit (the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-11-17 Scott D. Geraedts , Nicolas Regnault , Rahul M. Nandkishore

Strongly disordered systems in the many-body localized (MBL) phase can exhibit ground state order in highly excited eigenstates. The interplay between localization, symmetry, and topology has led to the characterization of a broad landscape…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-03-17 Rahul Sahay , Francisco Machado , Bingtian Ye , Chris R. Laumann , Norman Y. Yao

The possibility of observing many body localization of ultracold atoms in a one dimensional optical lattice is discussed for random interactions. In the non-interacting limit, such a system reduces to single-particle physics in the absence…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-02-15 Piotr Sierant , Dominique Delande , Jakub Zakrzewski

We study spectral and wavefunction statistics for many-body localization transition in systems with long-range interactions decaying as $1/r^\alpha$ with an exponent $\alpha$ satisfying $ d \le \alpha \le 2d$, where $d$ is the spatial…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-06-26 K. S. Tikhonov , A. D. Mirlin

We explore correlations of eigenstates around the many-body localization (MBL) transition in their dependence on the energy difference (frequency) $\omega$ and disorder $W$. In addition to the genuine many-body problem, XXZ spin chain in…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-02-17 Konstantin S. Tikhonov , Alexander D. Mirlin

We provide a pedagogical review on the calculation of highly excited eigenstates of disordered interacting quantum systems which can undergo a many-body localization (MBL) transition, using shift-invert exact diagonalization. We also…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-11-07 Francesca Pietracaprina , Nicolas Macé , David J. Luitz , Fabien Alet

The nature of the dynamical quantum phase transition between the many-body localized (MBL) phase and the thermal phase remains an open question, and one line of attack on this problem is to explore this transition numerically in finite-size…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-12-21 Liangsheng Zhang , Vedika Khemani , David A. Huse

We consider a quench in an infinite spin ladder describing a system with two species of bosons in the limit of strong interactions. If the heavy bosonic species has infinite mass the model becomes a spin chain with quenched binary disorder…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-03-01 J. Sirker

We apply support vector machine (SVM) to study the phase transition between many-body localized and thermal phases in a disordered quantum Ising chain in a transverse external field. The many-body eigenstate energy $E$ is bounded by a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-02-26 Wei Zhang , Lei Wang , Ziqiang Wang

We use thermalization indicators and numerical linked cluster expansions to probe the onset of many-body localization in a disordered one-dimensional hard-core boson model in the thermodynamic limit. We show that after equilibration…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-04-24 Baoming Tang , Deepak Iyer , Marcos Rigol

We study electron localization in disordered quantum systems, focusing on both individual eigenstates and thermal states. We employ complex polarization as a numerical indicator to characterize the system's localization length. Furthermore,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-04-30 Chong Sun

We study the localization problem of one-dimensional interacting spinless fermions in an incommensurate optical lattice, which changes from an extended phase to a nonergoic many-body localized phase by increasing the strength of the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-01-03 Yucheng Wang , Haiping Hu , Shu Chen

Many-body localization is a profound phase of matter affecting the entire spectrum which emerges in the presence of disorder in interacting many-body systems. Recently, the stability of many-body localization has been challenged by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Muhammad Sajid , Rozhin Yousefjani , Abolfazl Bayat

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…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-08-06 Hugo Théveniaut , Zhihao Lan , Gabriel Meyer , Fabien Alet

We study a quantum spin system with local bilinear interactions and without quenched disorder which seems to display characteristic signatures of a many-body localisation (MBL) transition. From direct diagonalisation of small systems, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-06-01 James M. Hickey , Sam Genway , Juan P. Garrahan