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Many-body localization (MBL) hinders the thermalization of quantum many-body systems in the presence of strong disorder. In this work, we study the MBL regime in bond-disordered spin-1/2 XXZ spin chain, finding the multimodal distribution…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-02-12 Adith Sai Aramthottil , Piotr Sierant , Maciej Lewenstein , Jakub Zakrzewski

In this paper, we theoretically investigate the many-body localization (MBL) properties of one-dimensional anisotropic spin-1/2 chains by using the exact matrix diagonalization method. Starting from the Ising spin-1/2 chain, we introduce…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-04-15 Taotao Hu , Yuting Li , Jiameng Hong , Xiaodan Li , Dongyan Guo , Kangning Chen

Recent developments in matrix-product-state (MPS) investigations of many-body localization (MBL) are reviewed, with a discussion of benefits and limitations of the method. This approach allows one to explore the physics around the MBL…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-04-29 Elmer V. H. Doggen , Igor V. Gornyi , Alexander D. Mirlin , Dmitry G. Polyakov

Since the seminal work of Anderson, localisation has been recognised as a standard mechanism allowing quantum many-body systems to escape ergodicity. This idea acquired even more prominence in the last decade as it has been argued that…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2022-04-25 Bruno Bertini , Pavel Kos , Tomaz Prosen

We demonstrate that the dynamics of quantum coherence serves as an effective probe for identifying dephasing, which is a distinctive signature of many-body localization (MBL). Quantum coherence can be utilized to measure both the local…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-19 Jin-Jun Chen , Kai Xu , Li-Hang Ren , Yu-Ran Zhang , Heng Fan

The transition from a many-body localized phase to a thermalizing one is a dynamical quantum phase transition which lies outside the framework of equilibrium statistical mechanics. We provide a detailed study of the critical properties of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-04-27 Vedika Khemani , S. P. Lim , D. N. Sheng , David A. Huse

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

Lessons from Anderson localization highlight the importance of dimensionality of real space for localization due to disorder. More recently, studies of many-body localization have focussed on the phenomenon in one dimension using techniques…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-02-11 Thorsten B. Wahl , Arijeet Pal , Steven H. Simon

We introduce novel characterizations for many-body phase transitions between delocalized and localized phases based on the system's sensitivity to boundary conditions. In particular, we change boundary conditions from periodic to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-01-27 Mohammad Pouranvari , Shiuan-Fan Liou

Disorder and interactions can lead to the breakdown of statistical mechanics in certain quantum systems, a phenomenon known as many-body localization (MBL). Much of the phenomenology of MBL emerges from the existence of $\ell$-bits, a set…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-05-19 Eli Chertkov , Benjamin Villalonga , Bryan K. Clark

Despite tremendous theoretical efforts to understand subtleties of the many-body localization (MBL) transition, many questions remain open, in particular concerning its critical properties. Here we make the key observation that MBL in one…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-12-01 Nicolas Laflorencie , Gabriel Lemarié , Nicolas Macé

For short-ranged disordered quantum models in one dimension, the Many-Body-Localization is analyzed via the adaptation to the Many-Body context [M. Serbyn, Z. Papic and D.A. Abanin, PRX 5, 041047 (2015)] of the Thouless point of view on the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-07-11 Cecile Monthus

Many-body localization (MBL) appears to be a robust example of ergodicity breaking in many-body interacting systems. Here, we review different aspects of MBL, concentrating on various ways the disorder may be introduced into the system…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-01-15 Konrad Pawlik , Maksym Prodius , Pedro R. Nicácio Falcão , Jakub Zakrzewski

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

At the quantum many-body level, atom-light interfaces generally remain challenging to solve for or understand in a non-perturbative fashion. Here, we consider a waveguide quantum electrodynamics model, where two-level atoms interact with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 Nikos Fayard , Loïc Henriet , Ana Asenjo-Garcia , Darrick Chang

Whether disordered and quasiperiodic many-body quantum systems host a long-lived localized phase in the thermodynamic limit has been the subject of intense recent debate. While in one dimension substantial evidence for the existence of such…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-11-30 Antonio Štrkalj , Elmer V. H. Doggen , Claudio Castelnovo

Characterizing the delocalization transition in closed quantum systems with a many-body localized phase is a key open question in the field of nonequilibrium physics. We exploit that localization of particles as realized in Anderson and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-12-17 Miroslav Hopjan , Giuliano Orso , Fabian Heidrich-Meisner

Nonequilibrium dynamics in isolated quantum many-body systems displays a number of intriguing features, such as many-body localization (MBL) and prethermalization. Here we investigate a simple ladder system with disorder, in which various…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-23 Yang Zhao , Rajesh Narayanan , Jaeyoon Cho

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

The absence of thermalization in certain isolated many-body systems is of great fundamental interest. Many-body localization (MBL) is a widely studied mechanism for thermalization to fail in strongly disordered quantum systems, but it is…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-11-07 L. J. Stanley , Ping V. Lin , J. Jaroszyński , Dragana Popović