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Using a new approximate strong-randomness renormalization group (RG), we study the many-body localized (MBL) phase and phase transition in one-dimensional quantum systems with short-range interactions and quenched disorder. Our RG is built…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-06-25 Alan Morningstar , David A. Huse

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

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

The strong long-range interaction leads to localization in the closed quantum system without disorders. Employing the exact diagonalization method, the author numerically investigates thermalization and many-body localization in…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-10-17 Chen Cheng

Many-body localization (MBL) behavior is analyzed {in an extended Bose-Hubbard model with quasiperiodic infinite-range interactions. No additional disorder is present. Examining level statistics and entanglement entropy of eigenstates we…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-06-02 Piotr Kubala , Piotr Sierant , Giovanna Morigi , Jakub Zakrzewski

We introduce the numerical linked cluster (NLC) expansion as a controlled numerical tool for the study of the many-body localization (MBL) transition in a disordered system with continuous non-perturbative disorder. Our approach works…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-10-29 Trithep Devakul , Rajiv R. P. Singh

We study the ergodic side of the many-body localization transition in its standard model, the disordered Heisenberg quantum spin chain. We show that the Thouless energy, extracted from long-range spectral statistics and the power-spectrum…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-07-02 Ángel L. Corps , Rafael A. Molina , Armando Relaño

We numerically study both the avalanche instability and many-body resonances in strongly-disordered spin chains exhibiting many-body localization (MBL). We distinguish between a finite-size/time MBL regime, and the asymptotic MBL phase, and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-05-13 Alan Morningstar , Luis Colmenarez , Vedika Khemani , David J. Luitz , David A. Huse

Many-body localization (MBL) is a result of the balance between interference-based Anderson localization and many-body interactions in an ultra-high dimensional Fock space. It is usually expected that dissipation is blurring interference…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-07-25 I. Vakulchyk , I. Yusipov , M. Ivanchenko , S. Flach , S. Denisov

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

We examine the interplay of interaction and disorder for a Heisenberg spin ladder system with random fields. We identify many-body localized states based on the entanglement entropy scaling, where delocalized and localized states have…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-12-09 Elliott Baygan , S. P. Lim , D. N. Sheng

Disordered quantum systems undergoing a many-body localization (MBL) transition fail to reach thermal equilibrium under their own dynamics. Distinguishing between asymptotically localized or delocalized dynamics based on numerical results…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-06-28 Jonas Richter , Arijeet Pal

We investigate the transition from the many-body localized phase to the ergodic thermalized phase at an infinite temperature in an $XY$ spin chain with $L$ spins, which experiences power-law decaying interactions in the form of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-12-18 Sebastian Schiffer , Jia Wang , Xia-Ji Liu , Hui Hu

We introduce techniques for analysing the structure of quantum states of many-body localized (MBL) spin chains by identifying correlation clusters from pairwise correlations. These techniques proceed by interpreting pairwise correlations in…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-02-16 Kévin Hémery , Frank Pollmann , Adam Smith

Recent studies point towards nontriviality of the ergodic phase in systems exhibiting many-body localization (MBL), which shows subexponential relaxation of local observables, subdiffusive transport and sublinear spreading of the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-06-02 David J. Luitz , Yevgeny Bar Lev

Many-body localization has become an important phenomenon for illuminating a potential rift between non-equilibrium quantum systems and statistical mechanics. However, the nature of the transition between ergodic and localized phases in…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-06-04 Johnnie Gray , Sougato Bose , Abolfazl Bayat

We present a large scale exact diagonalization study of the one dimensional spin $1/2$ Heisenberg model in a random magnetic field. In order to access properties at varying energy densities across the entire spectrum for system sizes up to…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-03-05 David J. Luitz , Nicolas Laflorencie , Fabien Alet

Many-body localized (MBL) systems fail to reach thermal equilibrium under their own dynamics, even though they are interacting, nonintegrable, and in an extensively excited state. One instability towards thermalization of MBL systems is the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-06-27 Hyunsoo Ha , Alan Morningstar , David A. Huse

In this work we study the many-body localization (MBL) transition and relate it to the eigenstate structure in the Fock space. Besides the standard entanglement and multifractal probes, we introduce the radial probability distribution of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-07-14 Giuseppe De Tomasi , Ivan M. Khaymovich , Frank Pollmann , Simone Warzel

We theoretically study the quench dynamics for an isolated Heisenberg spin chain with a random on-site magnetic field, which is one of the paradigmatic models of a many-body localization transition. We use the time-dependent variational…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-11-14 Elmer V. H. Doggen , Frank Schindler , Konstantin S. Tikhonov , Alexander D. Mirlin , Titus Neupert , Dmitry G. Polyakov , Igor V. Gornyi