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We show that many-body localization (MBL) effects can be observed in a finite chain of exchange-coupled spin qubits in the presence of both exchange and magnetic noise, a system that has been experimentally realized in semiconductors and is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-03 Robert E. Throckmorton , S. Das Sarma

The nature of the dynamical quantum phase transition between the many-body localized (MBL) phase and the thermal phase remains an open question, and one line of attack on this problem is to explore this transition numerically in finite-size…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-12-21 Liangsheng Zhang , Vedika Khemani , David A. Huse

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

Stark Many-Body Localization (MBL) is a phenomenon observed in quantum systems in the absence of disorder, where the presence of a linear potential, known as the Stark field, causes the localization. Our study aims to provide novel insight…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-01-22 Chung Po Ching

Deriving conditions under which a macroscopic system thermalizes directly from the underlying quantum many-body dynamics of its microscopic constituents is a long-standing challenge in theoretical physics. The well-known eigenstate…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-02-02 Lennart Dabelow , Patrick Vorndamme , Peter Reimann

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 show that the thermodynamic limit of a many-body system can reveal entanglement properties that are hard to detect in finite-size systems -- similar to how phase transitions only sharply emerge in the thermodynamic limit. The resulting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-09 Lauritz van Luijk , Alexander Stottmeister , Henrik Wilming

Many body localization (MBL) is a phenomena that allows for the preservation of quantum information for long times. We study a variation of the disordered-Heisenberg model, which is known to exhibit an MBL phase [5][6], known as the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-27 Nicholas Carrillo

The many-body mobility edge (MBME) in energy, which separates thermal states from many-body localization (MBL) states, is a critical yet controversial concept in MBL physics. Here we examine the quasiperiodic $t_1-t_2$ model that features a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-05-23 Yutao Hu , Chao Yang , Yucheng Wang

We consider a many-body localized system coupled globally to a central $d$-level system. Under an appropriate scaling of $d$ and $L$, we find evidence that the localized phase survives. We argue for two possible thermalizing phases,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-06-24 Nathan Ng , Michael Kolodrubetz

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

Variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) represent a promising pathway toward achieving practical quantum advantage on near-term hardware. Despite this promise, for generic, expressive ans\"atze, their scalability is critically hindered by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-26 Chenfeng Cao , Yeqing Zhou , Swamit Tannu , Nic Shannon , Robert Joynt

In contrast with Anderson localization where a genuine localization is observed in real space, the many-body localization (MBL) problem is much less understood in the Hilbert space, support of the eigenstates. In this work, using exact…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-11-06 Nicolas Macé , Fabien Alet , Nicolas Laflorencie

Many-body localization (MBL) provides a mechanism to avoid thermalization in many-body quantum systems. Here, we show that an {\it emergent} symmetry can protect a state from MBL. Specifically, we propose a $\Z_2$ symmetric model with…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-12-15 N. S. Srivatsa , Roderich Moessner , Anne E. B. Nielsen

The effect of rare system-wide resonances in the many-body localization (MBL) transition has recently attracted significant attention. They are expected to play a prominent role in the stability of the MBL phase, prompting the development…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-11-13 Greivin Alfaro Miranda , Fabien Alet , Giulio Biroli , Leticia F. Cugliandolo , Nicolas Laflorencie , Marco Tarzia

In one-dimensional (1D) disorder-free interacting systems, a sufficiently strong linear potential can induce localization of the many-body eigenstates, a phenomenon dubbed as Stark many-body localization (MBL). In this paper, we investigate…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-07-25 Xiang-Ping Jiang , Rui Qi , Sheng Yang , Yayun Hu , Guangwen Yang

Many-body localization (MBL) of a disordered interacting boson system in one dimension is studied numerically at the filling faction one-half. The von Neumann entanglement entropy SvN is commonly used to detect the MBL phase transition but…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-03-07 Jie Chen , Chun Chen , Xiaoqun Wang

We study the real-time dynamics of a translationally invariant quantum spin chain, based on the East kinetically constrained glass model, in search for evidence of many-body localisation in the absence of disorder. Numerical simulations…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-10-07 Merlijn van Horssen , Emanuele Levi , Juan P. Garrahan

We investigate the relation between thermalization following a quantum quench and many-body localization in quasiparticle space in terms of the long-time full distribution function of physical observables. In particular, expanding on our…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-09-26 Elena Canovi , Davide Rossini , Rosario Fazio , Giuseppe E. Santoro , Alessandro Silva

We show how the thermodynamic properties of large many-body localized systems can be studied using quantum Monte Carlo simulations. To this end we devise a heuristic way of constructing local integrals of motion of very high quality, which…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-09-21 Stephen Inglis , Lode Pollet