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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

A quantum system of particles can exist in a localized phase, exhibiting ergodicity breaking and maintaining forever a local memory of its initial conditions. We generalize this concept to a system of extended objects, such as strings and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-10-10 Michael Pretko , Rahul M. Nandkishore

In this paper, we theoretically investigate the many-body localization (MBL) properties of one-dimensional anisotropic spin-1/2 chains by using the exact matrix diagonalization method. Starting from the Ising spin-1/2 chain, we introduce…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-04-15 Taotao Hu , Yuting Li , Jiameng Hong , Xiaodan Li , Dongyan Guo , Kangning Chen

Following the field theoretic approach of Basko et al., Ann. Phys. 321, 1126 (2006), we study in detail the real-time dynamics of a system expected to exhibit many-body localization. In particular, for time scales inaccessible to exact…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2014-07-02 Yevgeny Bar Lev , David R. Reichman

We conjecture that thermalization following a quantum quench in a strongly correlated quantum system is closely connected to many-body delocalization in the space of quasi-particles. This scenario is tested in the anisotropic Heisenberg…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-04-04 Elena Canovi , Davide Rossini , Rosario Fazio , Giuseppe E. Santoro , Alessandro Silva

We present numerical results within the one-dimensional disordered Hubbard model for several characteristic indicators of the many-body localization (MBL). Considering traditionally studied charge disorder (i.e., the same disorder strength…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-01-26 P. Prelovšek , O. S. Barišić , M. Žnidarič

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

The principles of ergodicity and thermalization constitute the foundation of statistical mechanics, positing that a many-body system progressively loses its local information as it evolves. Nevertheless, these principles can be disrupted…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-09 M. G. Sousa , Rafael F. P. Costa , G. D. de Moraes Neto , E. Vernek

The ongoing quest for understanding nonequilibrium dynamics of complex quantum systems underpins the foundation of statistical physics as well as the development of quantum technology. Quantum many-body scarring has recently opened a window…

We numerically study the possibility of many-body localization transition in a disordered quantum dimer model on the honeycomb lattice. By using the peculiar constraints of this model and state-of-the-art exact diagonalization and time…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-02-24 Francesca Pietracaprina , Fabien Alet

Considering ultracold atoms in optical lattices, we propose experimental protocols to study many-body localization (MBL) length and criticality in quench dynamics. Through numerical simulations with exact diagonalization, we show that in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-03-30 Xuefei Guo , Xiaopeng Li

The Quantum Sun model is a many-body Hamiltonian model of interacting spins arranged on the half-line. Spins at distance $n$ from the origin are coupled to the rest of the system via a term of strength $\alpha^n$, with $\alpha \in (0,1)$.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-06-17 Wojciech De Roeck , Amirali Hannani

A recent experiment [Nature Physics 10, 1 (2019)] has realized a dynamical gauge system with $\mathbb{Z}_2$ gauge symmetry in a double-well potential. In this work we propose a method to generalize this model from a single double well to a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-09-23 Zhiyuan Yao , Chang Liu , Pengfei Zhang , Hui Zhai

Many-body localisation is studied in a disordered quantum spin-1/2 chain with long-ranged power-law interactions, and distinct power-law exponents for interactions between longitudinal and transverse spin components. Using a self-consistent…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-10-09 Sthitadhi Roy , David E. Logan

We present here the results obtained during my PhD work. We report the study of the many body localization transition in a spin chain and the breaking of ergodicity measured in terms of return probability in a state evolution. Moreover, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-02-06 Andrea De Luca

While entanglement plays an important role in characterizing quantum many-body systems, it is hardly possible to directly access many-body entanglement in real experiments. In this paper, we study how bipartite entanglement of many-body…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-11 Chae-Yeun Park , Jaeyoon Cho

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

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

Detecting many-body localization (MBL) typically requires the calculation of high-energy eigenstates using numerical approaches. This study investigates methods that assume the use of a quantum device to detect disorder-induced…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-10-31 Kazue Kudo

We examine the standard model of many-body localization (MBL), i.e., the disordered chain of interacting spinless fermions, by representing it as the network in the many-body (MB) basis of noninteracting localized Anderson states. By…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-02-04 P. Prelovšek , M. Mierzejewski , J. Krsnik , O. S. Barišić