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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

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

The space of one-dimensional disordered interacting quantum models displaying a Many-Body-Localization Transition seems sufficiently rich to produce critical points with level statistics interpolating continuously between the Poisson…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-04-04 Cecile Monthus

We study a quantum spin system with local bilinear interactions and without quenched disorder which seems to display characteristic signatures of a many-body localisation (MBL) transition. From direct diagonalisation of small systems, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-06-01 James M. Hickey , Sam Genway , Juan P. Garrahan

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

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 investigate the phenomenon of spatial many-body localization (MBL) through pairwise correlation measures based on one and two-point correlation functions. The system considered is the Heisenberg spin-1/2 chain with exchange interaction…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-07-26 Jaime L. C. da C. Filho , Andreia Saguia , Lea F. Santos , Marcelo S. Sarandy

We construct a solvable spin chain model of many-body localization (MBL) with a tunable mobility edge. This simple model not only demonstrates analytically the existence of mobility edges in interacting one-dimensional (1D) disordered…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-07-07 Yichen Huang

We study a canonical many-body-localized (MBL) system with power-law-correlated disorders: $s=\frac{1}{2}$ spin chain in a random magnetic field. The power-law-correlated disorder can control the critical regime between the MBL and thermal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-20 Takahiro Orito , Yoshihito Kuno , Ikuo Ichinose

Many-body localized (MBL) systems lie outside the framework of statistical mechanics, as they fail to equilibrate under their own quantum dynamics. Even basic features of MBL systems such as their stability to thermal inclusions and the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-02-27 Pedro Ponte , C. R. Laumann , David A. Huse , A. Chandran

While many studies point towards the existence of many-body localization (MBL) in one dimension, the fate of higher-dimensional strongly disordered systems is a topic of current debate. The latest experiments as well as several recent…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-05-13 Joey Li , Amos Chan , Thorsten B. Wahl

As strength of disorder enhances beyond a threshold value in many-body systems, a fundamental transformation happens through which the entire spectrum localizes, a phenomenon known as many-body localization. This has profound implications…

The transition between ergodic phase and many-body localization (MBL) phase lies at the heart in understanding quantum thermalization of many-body systems. Here we predict a many-body critical phase in the one-dimensional extended…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-02-26 Yucheng Wang , Chen Cheng , Xiong-jun Liu , Dapeng Yu

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

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

We examine the many-body localization (MBL) phase transition in one-dimensional quantum systems with quenched randomness and short-range interactions. Following recent works, we use a strong-randomness renormalization group (RG) approach…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-09-22 Alan Morningstar , David A. Huse , John Z. Imbrie

The many-body localization (MBL) transition is a quantum phase transition involving highly excited eigenstates of a disordered quantum many-body Hamiltonian, which evolve from "extended/ergodic" (exhibiting extensive entanglement entropies…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-04-20 Piero Naldesi , Elisa Ercolessi , Tommaso Roscilde

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

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

The many-body localization (MBL) phase transition is not a conventional thermodynamic phase transition. Thus to define the phase transition one should allow the possibility of taking the limit of an infinite system in a way that is not the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-04-24 Sarang Gopalakrishnan , David A. Huse