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We study many-body chaos in a (2+1)D relativistic scalar field theory at high temperatures in the classical statistical approximation, which captures the quantum critical regime and the thermal phase transition from an ordered to a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-08-21 Alexander Schuckert , Michael Knap

Understanding the relationship between many-body localization and spectra in non-Hermitian many-body systems is crucial. In a one-dimensional clean, long-range interaction-induced non-Hermitian many-body localization system, we have…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-10-10 Wen Wang , Han-Ze Li , Jian-Xin Zhong

Many-body localization is a dynamical phenomenon characteristic of strongly interacting and disordered many-body quantum systems which fail to achieve thermal equilibrium. From a quantum information perspective, the fingerprint of this…

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 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

Many-body localized systems in which interactions and disorder come together defy the expectations of quantum statistical mechanics: In contrast to ergodic systems, they do not thermalize when undergoing nonequilibrium dynamics. What is…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-01-29 K. S. C. Decker , D. M. Kennes , J. Eisert , C. Karrasch

Whether disordered and quasiperiodic many-body quantum systems host a long-lived localized phase in the thermodynamic limit has been the subject of intense recent debate. While in one dimension substantial evidence for the existence of such…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-11-30 Antonio Štrkalj , Elmer V. H. Doggen , Claudio Castelnovo

Many-body localization (MBL) transition emerges at strong disorder in interacting systems, separating chaotic and reversible dynamics. Although the existence of MBL transition within the macroscopic limit in spin chains with a short-range…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-02-06 Illia Lukin , Andrii Sotnikov , Alexander L. Burin

We analyze the unusual slow dynamics that emerges in the bad metal delocalized phase preceding the Many-Body Localization transition by using single-particle Anderson Localization on the Bethe lattice as a toy model of many-body dynamics in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-12-06 Giulio Biroli , Marco Tarzia

We experimentally study a periodically driven many-body localized system realized by interacting fermions in a one-dimensional quasi-disordered optical lattice. By preparing the system in a far-from-equilibrium state and monitoring the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-05-24 Pranjal Bordia , Henrik Lüschen , Ulrich Schneider , Michael Knap , Immanuel Bloch

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 investigate the emergence of many-body dynamical localization (MBDL) in the Fock space of an interacting two-mode bosonic system subject to periodic driving. Using a mapping to the paradigmatic kicked-top model, we analyze the interplay…

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

The phenomenon of many-body localised (MBL) systems has attracted significant interest in recent years, for its intriguing implications from a perspective of both condensed-matter and statistical physics: they are insulators even at…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-07-08 M. Goihl , M. Friesdorf , A. H. Werner , W. Brown , J. Eisert

We review our results for the dynamics of isolated many-body quantum systems described by one-dimensional spin-1/2 models. We explain how the evolution of these systems depends on the initial state and the strength of the perturbation that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-08-03 Lea F. Santos , E. Jonathan Torres-Herrera

Since the seminal work of Anderson, localisation has been recognised as a standard mechanism allowing quantum many-body systems to escape ergodicity. This idea acquired even more prominence in the last decade as it has been argued that…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2022-04-25 Bruno Bertini , Pavel Kos , Tomaz Prosen

Recent experiments have demonstrated single-site resolved observation of cold atoms in optical lattices. Thus, in the future it may be possible to take repeated snapshots of an interacting quantum many-body system during the course of its…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-01-13 Stefan Kessler , Andreas Holzner , Ian P. McCulloch , Jan von Delft , Florian Marquardt

The investigation of nonequilibrium thermodynamics in quantum many-body systems underscores the importance of quantum work, which differs from its classical counterpart due to its statistical nature. Recent studies have shown that quantum…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-08 Kwai-Kong Ng , Min-Fong Yang

Recently it has been suggested that many-body localization (MBL) can occur in translation-invariant systems, and candidate 1D models have been proposed. We find that such models, in contrast to MBL systems with quenched disorder, typically…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-08 Z. Papic , E. M. Stoudenmire , Dmitry A. Abanin

Statistical mechanics is one of the most comprehensive theories in physics. From a boiling pot of water to the complex dynamics of quantum many-body systems it provides a successful connection between the microscopic dynamics of atoms and…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-10-06 B. Rauer , T. Schweigler , T. Langen , J. Schmiedmayer