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Work in isolated quantum systems is a random variable and its probability distribution function obeys the celebrated fluctuation theorems of Crooks and Jarzynski. In this study, we provide a simple way to describe the work probability…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-04 Eric G. Arrais , Diego A. Wisniacki , Augusto J. Roncaglia , Fabricio Toscano

Understanding the thermodynamic properties of many-body quantum systems and their emergence from microscopic laws is a topic of great significance due to its profound fundamental implications and extensive practical applications. Recent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-05 Antonio Palamara , Francesco Plastina , Antonello Sindona , Irene D'Amico

The many-body localization (MBL) transition is a quantum phase transition involving highly excited eigenstates of a disordered quantum many-body Hamiltonian, which evolve from "extended/ergodic" (exhibiting extensive entanglement entropies…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-04-20 Piero Naldesi , Elisa Ercolessi , Tommaso Roscilde

Recent work has shown that the entanglement of finite-temperature eigenstates in chaotic quantum many-body local Hamiltonians can be accurately described by an ensemble of random states with an internal $U(1)$ symmetry. We build upon this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-18 Angelo Russotto , Filiberto Ares , Pasquale Calabrese

Despite tremendous theoretical efforts to understand subtleties of the many-body localization (MBL) transition, many questions remain open, in particular concerning its critical properties. Here we make the key observation that MBL in one…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-12-01 Nicolas Laflorencie , Gabriel Lemarié , Nicolas Macé

We study the many-body localization aspects of single-particle mobility edges in fermionic systems. We investigate incommensurate lattices and random disorder Anderson models. Many-body localization and quantum nonergodic properties are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-06-07 Xiaopeng Li , J. H. Pixley , Dong-Ling Deng , Sriram Ganeshan , S. Das Sarma

Dynamical localization is the analog of Anderson localization in momentum space, where the system's energy saturates and the single-particle wave-functions are exponentially localized in momentum space. In the presence of interactions, in…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-10-13 Vincent Vuatelet , Adam Rançon

We introduce a diagnostic for quantum thermalization based on mixed-state entanglement. Specifically, given a pure state on a tripartite system $ABC$, we study the scaling of entanglement negativity between $A$ and $B$. For representative…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-12-11 Tsung-Cheng Lu , Tarun Grover

Current understanding of correlations and quantum phase transitions in many-body systems has significantly improved thanks to the recent intensive studies of their entanglement properties. In contrast, much less is known about the role of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-02 J. Tura , A. B. Sainz , T. Grass , R. Augusiak , A. Acín , M. Lewenstein

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 study the dynamics of the quantum Ising chain following a zero-temperature quench of the transverse field strength. Focusing on the behavior of two-point spin correlation functions, we show that the correlators of the order parameter…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-02-28 Davide Rossini , Sei Suzuki , Giuseppe Mussardo , Giuseppe E. Santoro , Alessandro Silva

We explore the relation between entanglement entropy of quantum many body systems and the distribution of corresponding, properly selected, observables. Such a relation is necessary to actually measure the entanglement entropy. We show that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Israel Klich , Gil Refael , Alessandro Silva

We present an introductory review of nonergodic dynamics in interacting many-body quantum systems, focusing on the phenomenon of many-body localization (MBL). We describe aspects of MBL and summarize the evidence for a crossover from the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Jakub Zakrzewski

We investigate the robustness of the many-body localized (MBL) phase to the quantum-avalanche instability by studying the dynamics of a localized spin chain coupled to a $T=\infty$ thermal bath through its leftmost site. By analyzing local…

We study the dynamics of an interacting quantum spin chain under the application of a linearly increasing field. This model exhibits a type of localization known as Stark many-body localization. The dynamics shows a strong dependence on the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-03-10 Elmer V. H. Doggen , Igor V. Gornyi , Dmitry G. Polyakov

We study the real-time dynamics of a translationally invariant quantum spin chain, based on the East kinetically constrained glass model, in search for evidence of many-body localisation in the absence of disorder. Numerical simulations…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-10-07 Merlijn van Horssen , Emanuele Levi , Juan P. Garrahan

Localization in one-dimensional interacting systems can be caused by disorder potentials or non-Hermiticity. The former phenomenon is the many-body localization (MBL), and the latter is the many-body non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE). In…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-08-14 Yi-Cheng Wang , Kuldeep Suthar , H. H. Jen , Yi-Ting Hsu , Jhih-Shih You

Isolated quantum systems typically follow the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis, but there are exceptions, such as many-body localized (MBL) systems and quantum many-body scars. Here, we present the study of a weak violation of MBL due…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-12-02 Michael Iversen , N. S. Srivatsa , Anne E. B. Nielsen

We investigate many body localization in the presence of a single particle mobility edge. By considering an interacting deterministic model with an incommensurate potential in one dimension we find that the single particle mobility edge in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-10-29 Xiaopeng Li , Sriram Ganeshan , J. H. Pixley , S. Das Sarma

We study sudden quantum quenches in which the initial states are selected to be either eigenstates of an integrable Hamiltonian that is nonmappable to a noninteracting one or a nonintegrable Hamiltonian, while the Hamiltonian after the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-04-15 Kai He , Marcos Rigol