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Many-body localization provides a generic mechanism of ergodicity breaking in quantum systems. In contrast to conventional ergodic systems, many-body localized (MBL) systems are characterized by extensively many local integrals of motion…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-03-05 Anushya Chandran , Isaac H. Kim , Guifre Vidal , Dmitry A. Abanin

In one dimension, noninteracting particles can undergo a localization-delocalization transition in a quasiperiodic potential. Recent studies have suggested that this transition transforms into a many-body localization (MBL) transition upon…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-12-09 Ranjan Modak , Subroto Mukerjee

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

Characterizing out-of-equilibrium many-body dynamics is a complex but crucial task for quantum applications and the understanding of fundamental phenomena. A central question is the role of localization in quenching quantum thermalization,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-02-20 Ken Xuan Wei , Chandrasekhar Ramanathan , Paola Cappellaro

Disordered quantum systems undergoing a many-body localization (MBL) transition fail to reach thermal equilibrium under their own dynamics. Distinguishing between asymptotically localized or delocalized dynamics based on numerical results…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-06-28 Jonas Richter , Arijeet Pal

Characterizing the many-body localization (MBL) transition in strongly disordered and interacting quantum systems is an important issue in the field of condensed matter physics. We study the single particle Green's functions for a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-10-29 Atanu Jana , V. Ravi Chandra , Arti Garg

How quantum information is scrambled in the global degrees of freedom of non-equilibrium many-body systems is a key question to understand local thermalization. Here we propose that the scaling of the mutual information between two…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-10-01 Vincenzo Alba , Pasquale Calabrese

In this work, we investigate the localization properties of a paradigmatic model, coupled to a monitoring environment and possessing a many-body localized (MBL) phase. We focus on the post-selected no-click limit with quench random rates,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-05-14 Giuseppe De Tomasi , Ivan M. Khaymovich

In thermal phases, the quantum coherence of individual degrees of freedom is rapidly lost to the environment. Many-body localized (MBL) phases limit the spread of this coherence and appear promising for quantum information applications.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-31 Norman Y. Yao , Chris R. Laumann , Ashvin Vishwanath

We provide an overview of our numerical and analytical studies of isolated interacting quantum systems that are quenched out of equilibrium instantaneously. We describe the relaxation process to a new equilibrium and obtain lower bounds for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-04-04 E. J. Torres-Herrera , Davida Kollmar , Lea F. Santos

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

We present results on quantum quenches in systems with a fixed number of particles in a large region. We show that the typical differences between local and global quenches present in systems with regular thermodynamic limit are lacking in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-02-26 Yulia E. Shchadilova , Pedro Ribeiro , Masudul Haque

We study the time-dependence of the magnetization profile, m_l(t), of a large finite open quantum Ising chain after a quench. We observe a cyclic variation, in which starting with an exponentially decreasing period the local magnetization…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-01-21 Ferenc Iglói , Heiko Rieger

We study localization properties of continuously monitored dynamics and associated measurement-induced phase transitions in disordered quantum many-body systems on the basis of the quantum trajectory approach. By calculating the fidelity…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-06-09 Kazuki Yamamoto , Ryusuke Hamazaki

Many-body localization (MBL), characterized by the absence of thermalization and the violation of conventional thermodynamics, has elicited much interest both as a fundamental physical phenomenon and for practical applications in quantum…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-12-17 Pai Peng , Zeyang Li , Haoxiong Yan , Ken Xuan Wei , Paola Cappellaro

We study many-body localization (MBL) in a nearest-neighbor hopping 1D lattice with a slowly varying (SV) on-site potential $U_j = \lambda\cos(\pi\alpha j^s)$ with $0<s<1$. The corresponding non-interacting 1D lattice model is known to have…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-07-14 Zi-Jian Li , Yi-Ting Tu , Sankar Das Sarma

Many-body localized (MBL) phases of disordered quantum many-particle systems have a number of unique properties, including failure to act as a thermal bath and protection of quantum coherence. Studying MBL is complicated by the effects of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-01-03 Michael Sonner , Alessio Lerose , Dmitry A. Abanin

We study theoretically transitions between the localized and chaotic many-body regimes in one-dimensional quantum lattice systems with long-range couplings between particles and linear external potential. In terms of established criteria…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-06-02 I. V. Lukin , Yu. V. Slyusarenko , A. G. Sotnikov

An interacting quantum system that is subject to disorder may cease to thermalize due to localization of its constituents, thereby marking the breakdown of thermodynamics. The key to our understanding of this phenomenon lies in the system's…

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),…