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Many-body localization (MBL) provides a mechanism by which interacting quantum systems evade thermalization, leading to persistent memory of initial conditions and slow entanglement growth. Probing these dynamical signatures in large…

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Quantum dynamics in a strongly disordered quantum many-body system show localization properties. The initial state memory is maintained owing to slow relaxation when the system is in the localized regime. This work demonstrates how…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-12 Kazue Kudo

We construct a complete set of local integrals of motion that characterize the many-body localized (MBL) phase. Our approach relies on the assumption that local perturbations act locally on the eigenstates in the MBL phase, which is…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-09-19 Maksym Serbyn , Z. Papić , Dmitry A. Abanin

Understanding how closed quantum systems dynamically approach thermal equilibrium presents a major unresolved problem in statistical physics. Generically, non-integrable quantum systems are expected to thermalize as they comply with the…

We investigate quantum features and non-classical nature of two-spin-$1/2$ NMR systems at thermal equilibrium under external magnetic fields. More specifically, using suitable quantifiers, we analyze quantum coherence, mixedness, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-02 Fatemeh Khashami

The characterization of many-body correlations provides a powerful tool for analyzing correlated quantum materials. However, experimental extraction of quantum entanglement in correlated electronic systems remains an open problem in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-04-21 Faluke Aikebaier , Teemu Ojanen , Jose L. Lado

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

The interplay of interactions and disorder in a quantum many body system may lead to the elusive phenomenon of many body localization (MBL). It has been observed under precisely controlled conditions in synthetic quantum many-body systems,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-07-25 A. Nietner , A. Kshetrimayum , J. Eisert , B. Lake

In systems where interactions couple a central degree of freedom and a bath, one would expect signatures of the bath's phase to be reflected in the dynamics of the central degree of freedom. This has been recently explored in connection…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-04-07 Nathan Ng , Sebastian Wenderoth , Rajagopala Reddy Seelam , Eran Rabani , Hans-Dieter Meyer , Michael Thoss , Michael Kolodrubetz

We consider a one dimensional spin $1/2$ chain with Heisenberg interaction in a disordered parallel magnetic field. This system is known to exhibit the many body localization (MBL) transition at critical strength of disorder. We analyze the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-03-01 Canran Xu , Maxim G. Vavilov

What happens in an isolated quantum system when both disorder and interactions are present? Over the recent years, the picture of a non-thermalizing phase of matter, the many-localized phase, has emerged as a stable solution. We present a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-05-22 Fabien Alet , Nicolas Laflorencie

We study the universal properties of eigenstate entanglement entropy across the transition between many-body localized (MBL) and thermal phases. We develop an improved real space renormalization group approach that enables numerical…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-09-18 Philipp T. Dumitrescu , Romain Vasseur , Andrew C. Potter

Entanglement not only plays a crucial role in quantum technologies, but is key to our understanding of quantum correlations in many-body systems. However, in an experiment, the only way of measuring entanglement in a generic mixed state is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-16 Johnnie Gray , Leonardo Banchi , Abolfazl Bayat , Sougato Bose

Localization in one-dimensional interacting systems can be caused by disorder potentials or non-Hermiticity. The former phenomenon is the many-body localization (MBL), and the latter is the many-body non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE). In…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-08-14 Yi-Cheng Wang , Kuldeep Suthar , H. H. Jen , Yi-Ting Hsu , Jhih-Shih You

We consider disordered many-body systems with periodic time-dependent Hamiltonians in one spatial dimension. By studying the properties of the Floquet eigenstates, we identify two distinct phases: (i) a many-body localized (MBL) phase, in…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-04-16 Pedro Ponte , Z. Papić , François Huveneers , Dmitry A. Abanin

The quantum motion of $N$ coupled kicked rotors is mapped to an interacting $N$-particle Anderson-Aubry-Andr$\'e$ tight-binding problem supporting many-body localised (MBL) phases. Interactions in configuration space are known to be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-29 L. A. Toikka , A. Andreanov

Localization in interacting systems caused by disorder, known as many-body localization (MBL), has attracted a lot of attention in recent years. Most systems studied in this context also show single-particle localization, and the question…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-08-02 Rajeev Singh , Efrat Shimshoni

In the presence of strong disorder and weak interactions, closed quantum systems can enter a many-body localized phase where the system does not conduct, does not equilibrate even for arbitrarily long times, and robustly violates quantum…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-01-23 Katharine Hyatt , James R. Garrison , Andrew C. Potter , Bela Bauer

Many-body localized (MBL) systems do not approach thermal equilibrium under their intrinsic dynamics; MBL and conventional thermalizing systems form distinct dynamical phases of matter, separated by a phase transition at which equilibrium…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-05-25 Sarang Gopalakrishnan , S. A. Parameswaran

An interacting system subjected to a strong linear potential can host a many-body localized (MBL) phase when being slightly perturbed. This so-called Wannier-Stark or `tilted-field' MBL phase inherits many properties from the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-10-15 Elisabeth Wybo , Michael Knap , Frank Pollmann