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Many-body localization, the persistence against electron-electron interactions of the localization of states with non-zero excitation energy density, poses a challenge to current methods of theoretical and numerical analysis. Numerical…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2014-11-06 Bela Bauer , Chetan Nayak

Many-body localization (MBL) appears to be a robust example of ergodicity breaking in many-body interacting systems. Here, we review different aspects of MBL, concentrating on various ways the disorder may be introduced into the system…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-01-15 Konrad Pawlik , Maksym Prodius , Pedro R. Nicácio Falcão , Jakub Zakrzewski

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…

Hilbert space fragmentation provides a mechanism to break ergodicity in closed many-body systems. Here, we propose a feasible scheme to explore this exotic paradigm on a Rydberg quantum simulator. We show that the Rydberg Ising model in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-28 Fan Yang , Hadi Yarloo , Hua-Chen Zhang , Klaus Mølmer , Anne E. B. Nielsen

Characterizing states of matter through the lens of their ergodic properties is a fascinating new direction of research. In the quantum realm, the many-body localization (MBL) was proposed to be the paradigmatic ergodicity breaking…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-01-01 J. Šuntajs , J. Bonča , T. Prosen , L. Vidmar

Disordered systems provide paradigmatic instances of ergodicity breaking and localization phenomena. Here we explore the dynamics of excitations in a system of Rydberg atoms held in optical tweezers. The finite temperature produces an…

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 review recent results on many-body localization for two explicitly analyzable models of many-body quantum systems, the XY spin chain in transversal magnetic field as well as interacting systems of harmonic quantum oscillators. In both…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-01-03 Robert Sims , Gunter Stolz

We propose to observe many-body localization in cold atomic gases by realizing a Bose-Hubbard chain with binary disorder and studying its non-equilibrium dynamics. In particular, we show that measuring the difference in occupation between…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2014-11-19 F. Andraschko , T. Enss , J. Sirker

Many-body localization has become an important phenomenon for illuminating a potential rift between non-equilibrium quantum systems and statistical mechanics. However, the nature of the transition between ergodic and localized phases in…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-06-04 Johnnie Gray , Sougato Bose , Abolfazl Bayat

We explore the problem of localization in topological and non-topological nearly-flat subbands derived from the lowest Landau level, in the presence of quenched disorder and short-range interactions. We consider two models: a suitably…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-01-23 Akshay Krishna , Matteo Ippoliti , R. N. Bhatt

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

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

Many body localization (MBL) represents a unique physical phenomenon, providing a testing ground for exploring thermalization, or more precisely its failure. Here we characterize the MBL regime geometrically by the many-body quantum metric…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-05-14 W. N. Faugno , Tomoki Ozawa

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

The strong long-range interaction leads to localization in the closed quantum system without disorders. Employing the exact diagonalization method, the author numerically investigates thermalization and many-body localization in…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-10-17 Chen Cheng

We review the physics of many-body localization in models with incommensurate potentials. In particular, we consider one-dimensional quasiperiodic models with single-particle mobility edges. Although a conventional perspective suggests that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-02 Dong-Ling Deng , Sriram Ganeshan , Xiaopeng Li , Ranjan Modak , Subroto Mukerjee , J. H. Pixley

We show that a one-dimensional Hubbard model with all-to-all coupling may exhibit many-body localization in the presence of local disorder. We numerically identify the parameter space where many-body localization occurs using exact…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-07-17 Piotr Sierant , Krzysztof Biedroń , Giovanna Morigi , Jakub Zakrzewski

We consider the Bose-Hubbard model. Our focus is on many-body localization, which was described by many authors in such models, even in the absence of disorder. Since our work is rigorous, and since we believe that the localization in this…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-12-15 Alex Bols , Wojciech De Roeck

We demonstrate that a many-body nonlocality is a resource for ultra-precise metrology. This result is achieved by linking the sensitivity of a quantum sensor with a combination of many-body correlation functions that witness the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-02 Artur Niezgoda , Jan Chwedenczuk