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We address the problem of thermalization in the presence of a time-dependent disorder in the framework of the nonlinear Schr\"odinger (or Gross-Pitaevskii) equation with a random potential. The thermalization to the Rayleigh-Jeans…
Inspired by the avalanche scenario for many-body localization (MBL) instability, we reverse the conventional set-up and ask whether a large weakly-disordered chain can thermalize a smaller, strongly-disordered chain when the composite…
We study the discrete nonlinear Schr\"oinger equation with weak disorder, focusing on the regime when the nonlinearity is, on the one hand, weak enough for the normal modes of the linear problem to remain well resolved, but on the other,…
How a closed system thermalizes, especially in the absence of global conservation laws but in the presence of disorder and interactions, is one of the central questions in non-equilibrium statistical mechanics. We explore this for a…
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We develop a consistent treatment of disorder effects in strong coupling superconductors. We use two different approaches, starting either from above or below the transition temperature, and show their equivalence. The normal state approach…
We analyze the chaotic dynamics of a one-dimensional discrete nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation. This nonintegrable model, ubiquitous in several fields of physics, describes the behavior of an array of coupled complex oscillators with a…
Using exact diagonalization technique, we investigate the many-body localization phenomenon in the 1D Heisenberg chain comparing several disorder models. In particular we consider a family of discrete distributions of disorder strengths and…
We study a recently proposed modified Schr\"{o}dinger equation having an added nonlinear term. For the case where a stochastic term is added to the Hamiltonian, the fluctuating response is found to resemble the process of thermalization.…
We show that a single nonlinear defect can thermalize an initial excitation towards a Rayleigh-Jeans (RJ) state in complex multimoded systems. The thermalization can be hindered by disorder-induced localization phenomena which drive the…
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