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Due to the presence of strong correlations, theoretical or experimental investigations of quantum many-body systems belong to the most challenging tasks in modern physics. Stimulated by tensor networks, we propose a scheme of constructing…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-10-17 Shi-Ju Ran , Angelo Piga , Cheng Peng , Gang Su , Maciej Lewenstein

When pushed out of equilibrium, generic interacting quantum systems equilibrate locally and are expected to evolve towards a locally thermal description despite their unitary time evolution. Systems in which disorder competes with…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-05-29 Marcel Goihl , Jens Eisert , Christian Krumnow

In quantum statistical mechanics, closed many-body systems that do not exhibit thermalization after an arbitrarily long time in spite of the presence of interactions are called as many-body localized systems, and recently have been…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-14 Fumihiko Sugino , Pramod Padmanabhan

We investigate an approach for studying the ground state of a quantum many-body Hamiltonian that is based on treating the correlation functions as variational parameters. In this approach, the challenge set by the exponentially-large…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-01-22 Arbel Haim , Richard Kueng , Gil Refael

We study quantum oscillator lattice systems with disorder, in arbitrary dimension, requiring only partial localization of the associated effective one-particle Hamiltonian. This leads to a many-body localized regime of excited states with…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-10-13 Houssam Abdul-Rahman , Robert Sims , Günter Stolz

Many-body localization (MBL) in a one-dimensional Fermi Hubbard model with random on-site interactions is studied. While for this model all single-particle states are trivially delocalized, it is shown that for sufficiently strong…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-11-22 Yevgeny Bar Lev , David R. Reichman , Yoav Sagi

We numerically study quantum avalanches in one-dimensional disordered spin systems by attaching two XXZ spin chains. One chain has low disorder representing a rare Griffith's region, or thermal inclusion, and the second has larger disorder,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-12-18 J. Clayton Peacock , Dries Sels

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 propose a method for detecting many-body localization (MBL) in disordered spin systems. The method involves pulsed, coherent spin manipulations that probe the dephasing of a given spin due to its entanglement with a set of distant spins.…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2014-10-08 M. Serbyn , M. Knap , S. Gopalakrishnan , Z. Papić , N. Y. Yao , C. R. Laumann , D. A. Abanin , M. D. Lukin , E. A. Demler

For short-ranged disordered quantum models in one dimension, the Many-Body-Localization is analyzed via the adaptation to the Many-Body context [M. Serbyn, Z. Papic and D.A. Abanin, PRX 5, 041047 (2015)] of the Thouless point of view on the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-07-11 Cecile Monthus

Many-body localization (MBL) hinders the thermalization of quantum many-body systems in the presence of strong disorder. In this work, we study the MBL regime in bond-disordered spin-1/2 XXZ spin chain, finding the multimodal distribution…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-02-12 Adith Sai Aramthottil , Piotr Sierant , Maciej Lewenstein , Jakub Zakrzewski

In this manuscript, we explore the feasibility of achieving many-body localization in the context of cavity quantum electrodynamics at strong coupling. Working with a spinless electronic Hubbard chain sitting coupled to a single-mode…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-20 Rong-Chun Ge , Saeed Rahmanian Koshkaki , Michael H. Kolodrubetz

We theoretically study the quench dynamics for an isolated Heisenberg spin chain with a random on-site magnetic field, which is one of the paradigmatic models of a many-body localization transition. We use the time-dependent variational…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-11-14 Elmer V. H. Doggen , Frank Schindler , Konstantin S. Tikhonov , Alexander D. Mirlin , Titus Neupert , Dmitry G. Polyakov , Igor V. Gornyi

Spin-boson Hamiltonians are an effective description for numerous quantum many-body systems such as atoms coupled to cavity modes, quantum electrodynamics in circuits and trapped ion systems. While reaching the limit of strong coupling is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-03-04 Eliana Fiorelli , Pietro Rotondo , Federico Carollo , Matteo Marcuzzi , Igor Lesanovsky

The question whether Anderson insulators can persist to finite-strength interactions - a scenario dubbed many-body localization - has recently received a great deal of interest. The origin of such a many-body localized phase has been…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-09-18 Bela Bauer , Chetan Nayak

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

Recent theoretical and numerical evidence suggests that localization can survive in disordered many-body systems with very high energy density, provided that interactions are sufficiently weak. Stronger interactions can destroy…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-04-17 Shankar Iyer , Vadim Oganesyan , Gil Refael , David A. Huse

Closed generic quantum many-body systems may fail to thermalize under certain conditions even after long times, a phenomenon called many-body localization (MBL). Numerous studies support the stability of the MBL phase in strongly disordered…

The existence of many-body mobility edges in closed quantum systems has been the focus of intense debate after the emergence of the description of the many-body localization phenomenon. Here we propose that this issue can be settled in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-05-01 Xing Bo Wei , Chen Cheng , Gao Xianlong , Rubem Mondaini

We consider fully many-body localized systems, i.e. isolated quantum systems where all the many-body eigenstates of the Hamiltonian are localized. We define a sense in which such systems are integrable, with localized conserved operators.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-11-19 David A. Huse , Rahul Nandkishore , Vadim Oganesyan