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Many body localization (MBL) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for understanding non-equilibrium quantum dynamics. Folklore based on perturbative arguments holds that MBL only arises in systems with short range interactions. Here we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-10-27 Rahul M. Nandkishore , S. L. Sondhi

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…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-16 Kazuma Nagao , Tomonori Shirakawa , Rongyang Sun , Peter Prelovšek , Seiji Yunoki

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

In this work, we investigate the localization properties of a paradigmatic model, coupled to a monitoring environment and possessing a many-body localized (MBL) phase. We focus on the post-selected no-click limit with quench random rates,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-05-14 Giuseppe De Tomasi , Ivan M. Khaymovich

We show that many-body localization (MBL) effects can be observed in a finite chain of exchange-coupled spin qubits in the presence of both exchange and magnetic noise, a system that has been experimentally realized in semiconductors and is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-03 Robert E. Throckmorton , S. Das Sarma

In this paper we propose a new perspective to analyze the many-body localization (MBL) transition when recast in terms of a single-particle tight-binding model in the space of many-body configurations. We compute the distribution of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-05 Marco Tarzia

We provide a pedagogical review on the calculation of highly excited eigenstates of disordered interacting quantum systems which can undergo a many-body localization (MBL) transition, using shift-invert exact diagonalization. We also…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-11-07 Francesca Pietracaprina , Nicolas Macé , David J. Luitz , Fabien Alet

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

A canonical model for many-body localization (MBL) is studied, of interacting spinless fermions on a lattice with uncorrelated quenched site-disorder. The model maps onto a tight-binding model on a `Fock-space (FS) lattice' of many-body…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-01-23 David E. Logan , Staszek Welsh

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

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…

We study the phenomenon of many-body localization (MBL) in an interacting system subjected to a combined DC as well as a square wave AC electric field. First, the condition for the dynamical localization, coherent destruction of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-09-02 Devendra Singh Bhakuni , Ritu Nehra , Auditya Sharma

Many body localization (MBL) is a phenomena that allows for the preservation of quantum information for long times. We study a variation of the disordered-Heisenberg model, which is known to exhibit an MBL phase [5][6], known as the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-27 Nicholas Carrillo

We construct an analytic theory of many-body localization (MBL) in random spin chains. The approach is based on a first quantized perspective in which MBL is understood as a localization phenomenon on the high dimensional lattice defined by…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-03-29 Alexander Altland , Tobias Micklitz

We consider the random-field Heisenberg model, a paradigmatic model for many-body localization (MBL), and add a Markovian dephasing bath coupled to the Anderson orbitals of the model's non-interacting limit. We map this system to a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-12-15 Kai Klocke , Christopher David White , Michael Buchhold

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

We present a framework in which the transition between a many-body localised (MBL) phase and an ergodic one is symmetry breaking. We consider random Floquet spin chains, expressing their averaged spectral form factor (SFF) as a function of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-10-26 S. J. Garratt , J. T. Chalker

The many-body localised (MBL) to thermal crossover observed in exact diagonalisation studies remains poorly understood as the accessible system sizes are too small to be in an asymptotic scaling regime. We develop a model of the crossover…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-07-13 Philip J. D. Crowley , Anushya Chandran

Many-body localization (MBL), characterized by the absence of thermalization and the violation of conventional thermodynamics, has elicited much interest both as a fundamental physical phenomenon and for practical applications in quantum…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-12-17 Pai Peng , Zeyang Li , Haoxiong Yan , Ken Xuan Wei , Paola Cappellaro

Characterizing out-of-equilibrium many-body dynamics is a complex but crucial task for quantum applications and the understanding of fundamental phenomena. A central question is the role of localization in quenching quantum thermalization,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-02-20 Ken Xuan Wei , Chandrasekhar Ramanathan , Paola Cappellaro