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We propose a method for detecting many-body localization (MBL) in disordered spin systems. The method involves pulsed, coherent spin manipulations that probe the dephasing of a given spin due to its entanglement with a set of distant spins.…

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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

Isolated quantum systems with quenched randomness exhibit many-body localization (MBL), wherein they do not reach local thermal equilibrium even when highly excited above their ground states. It is widely believed that individual…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-10-11 A. Chandran , A. Pal , C. R. Laumann , A. Scardicchio

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

The out-of-time-ordered (OTO) correlation is a key quantity for quantifying quantum chaoticity and has been recently used in the investigation of quantum holography. Here we use it to study and characterize many-body localization (MBL). We…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-02-15 Rong-Qiang He , Zhong-Yi Lu

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) 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 consider a quench in an infinite spin ladder describing a system with two species of bosons in the limit of strong interactions. If the heavy bosonic species has infinite mass the model becomes a spin chain with quenched binary disorder…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-03-01 J. Sirker

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

We established important relationships between entanglement measures and the order parameter (spin polarization) in nuclear spin systems controlled by the nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) technique. Since spin polarization can be easily…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-10-27 G. B. Furman , V. M. Meerovich , V. L. Sokolovsky

Many-body localization occurs in isolated quantum systems when Anderson localization persists in the presence of finite interactions. Despite strong evidence for the existence of a many-body localization transition a reliable extraction of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-09-17 Jonas A. Kjäll , Jens H. Bardarson , Frank Pollmann

The disordered many-body systems can undergo a transition from the extended ensemble to a localized ensemble, known as many-body localization (MBL), which has been intensively explored in recent years. Nevertheless, the relation between…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-10-17 Hong-Ze Xu , Shun-Yao Zhang , Ze-Yu Rao , Zhengwei Zhou , Guang-Can Guo , Ming Gong

We review some recent developments in the statistical mechanics of isolated quantum systems. We provide a brief introduction to quantum thermalization, paying particular attention to the `Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis' (ETH), and the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-04-07 Rahul Nandkishore , David A. Huse

Due to a phenomenon of many-body localization (MBL), the strong disorder may significantly slow down or even completely hinder the thermalization of quantum many-body systems. A sufficiently deep quasiperiodic potential may also inhibit…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-01-14 Pedro R. Nicácio Falcão , Adith Sai Aramthottil , Piotr Sierant , Jakub Zakrzewski

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

Quantum emulators, owing to their large degree of tunability and control, allow the observation of fine aspects of closed quantum many-body systems, as either the regime where thermalization takes place or when it is halted by the presence…

The transition between many-body localized states and the delocalized thermal states is an eigen-state phase transition at finite energy density outside the scope of conventional quantum statistical mechanics. In this work we investigate…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-08-13 Wei Zhang , Ziqiang Wang

We consider spinless fermions on a finite one-dimensional lattice, interacting via nearest-neighbor repulsion and subject to a strong electric field. In the non-interacting case, due to Wannier-Stark localization, the single-particle wave…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-03-20 M. Schulz , C. A. Hooley , R. Moessner , F. Pollmann

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

Many-body localization (MBL) is an emergent phase in correlated quantum systems with promis- ing applications, particularly in quantum information. Here, we unveil the existence and analyse this phase in a chiral multiferroic model system.…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-08-29 S. Stagraczyński , L. Chotorlishvili , M. Schüler , M. Mierzejewski , J. Berakdar