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Models of many-body localization (MBL) exhibit slow numerical drifts towards delocalization with increasing system size, for which no satisfactory theory exists. Numerics indicates that these drifts are driven by the proliferation of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-05-08 Carlo Vanoni , David M. Long , Anushya Chandran

Closed, interacting, quantum systems have the potential to transition to a many-body localized (MBL) phase under the presence of sufficiently strong disorder, hence breaking ergodicity and failing to thermalize. In this work we study the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-07-15 Benjamin Villalonga , Bryan K. Clark

Dynamically localized states in quantum many-body systems are fundamentally important in understanding quantum thermalization and have applications in quantum information processing. Here we explore many-body dynamical localization (MBDL)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-27 Ling-Zhi Tang , Dan-Wei Zhang , Hai-Feng Yu , Z. D. Wang

We study the many-body localization (MBL) properties of a chain of interacting fermions subject to a quasiperiodic potential such that the non-interacting chain is always delocalized and displays multifractality. Contrary to naive…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-05-01 Nicolas Macé , Nicolas Laflorencie , Fabien Alet

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 and compare the particle number fluctuations in the putative many-body localized (MBL) phase of a spinless fermion model with potential disorder and nearest-neighbor interactions with those in the non-interacting case…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-01-26 Maximilian Kiefer-Emmanouilidis , Razmik Unanyan , Michael Fleischhauer , Jesko Sirker

In the presence of strong disorder and weak interactions, closed quantum systems can enter a many-body localized phase where the system does not conduct, does not equilibrate even for arbitrarily long times, and robustly violates quantum…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-01-23 Katharine Hyatt , James R. Garrison , Andrew C. Potter , Bela Bauer

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

We present a framework in which the transition between a many-body localised (MBL) phase and an ergodic one is symmetry breaking. We consider random Floquet spin chains, expressing their averaged spectral form factor (SFF) as a function of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-10-26 S. J. Garratt , J. T. Chalker

We develop an approach to characterize excited states of disordered many-body systems using spatially resolved structures of entanglement. We show that the behavior of the mutual information (MI) between two parties of a many-body system…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-01-17 Javier M. Magán , Simone Paganelli , Vadim Oganesyan

An interacting system subjected to a strong linear potential can host a many-body localized (MBL) phase when being slightly perturbed. This so-called Wannier-Stark or `tilted-field' MBL phase inherits many properties from the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-10-15 Elisabeth Wybo , Michael Knap , Frank Pollmann

While there are well established methods to study delocalization transitions of single particles in random systems, it remains a challenging problem how to characterize many body delocalization transitions. Here, we use a generalized…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-09-28 N. Moure , S. Haas , S. Kettemann

The celebrated Dyson singularity signals the relative delocalization of single-particle wave functions at the zero-energy symmetry point of disordered systems with a chiral symmetry. Here we show that analogous zero modes in interacting…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-05-06 Christian P. Chen , Marcin Szyniszewski , Henning Schomerus

We re-examine attempts to study the many-body localization transition using measures that are physically natural on the ergodic/quantum chaotic regime of the phase diagram. Using simple scaling arguments and an analysis of various models…

We examine the stability of marginally Anderson localized phase transitions between localized phases to the addition of many-body interactions, focusing in particular on the spin-glass to paramagnet transition in a disordered transverse…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-08-21 Sanjay Moudgalya , David A. Huse , Vedika Khemani

Many-body localization for a system of bosons trapped in a one dimensional lattice is discussed. Two models that may be realized for cold atoms in optical lattices are considered. The model with a random on-site potential is compared with…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-04-24 Piotr Sierant , Jakub Zakrzewski

We uncover a new non-ergodic phase, distinct from the many-body localized (MBL) phase, in a disordered two-leg ladder of interacting hardcore bosons. The dynamics of this emergent phase, which has no single-particle analog and exists only…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-11-07 Michael Schecter , Thomas Iadecola , Sankar Das Sarma

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

Recent experiments in quantum simulators have provided evidence for the Many-Body Localized (MBL) phase in 1D and 2D bosonic quantum matter. The theoretical study of such bosonic MBL, however, is a daunting task due to the unbounded nature…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-10-28 Sun Woo Kim , Giuseppe De Tomasi , Markus Heyl

Disordered quantum many-body systems pose one of the central challenges in condensed matter physics and quantum information science, as their dynamics are generally intractable for classical computation. Many-body localization (MBL),…