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We use exact diagonalization to explore the many-body localization transition in a random-field spin-1/2 chain. We examine the correlations within each many-body eigenstate, looking at all high-energy states and thus effectively working at…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-05-20 Arijeet Pal , David A. Huse

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 study many-body localization (MBL) in a pair-hopping model exhibiting strong fragmentation of the Hilbert space. We show that several Krylov subspaces have both ergodic statistics in the thermodynamic limit and a dimension that scales…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-04-28 Loïc Herviou , Jens H. Bardarson , N. Regnault

We study the dynamics of an interacting quantum spin chain under the application of a linearly increasing field. This model exhibits a type of localization known as Stark many-body localization. The dynamics shows a strong dependence on the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-03-10 Elmer V. H. Doggen , Igor V. Gornyi , Dmitry G. Polyakov

We review methods that allow one to detect and characterise quantum correlations in many-body systems, with a special focus on approaches which are scalable. Namely, those applicable to systems with many degrees of freedom, without…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-28 Irénée Frérot , Matteo Fadel , Maciej Lewenstein

The interplay between interactions and quenched disorder can result in rich dynamical quantum phenomena far from equilibrium, particularly when many-body localization prevents the system from full thermalization. With the aim of tackling…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-02-14 S. J. Thomson , M. Schiró

We consider spinless fermions on a finite one-dimensional lattice, interacting via nearest-neighbor repulsion and subject to a strong electric field. In the non-interacting case, due to Wannier-Stark localization, the single-particle wave…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-03-20 M. Schulz , C. A. Hooley , R. Moessner , F. Pollmann

Localization marks the breakdown of thermalization in subregions of quantum many-body systems in the presence of sufficiently large disorder. In this paper, we use numerical techniques to study thermalization and localization in a many-body…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-03-07 Spasen Chaykov , Brenden Bowen , Nishant Agarwal

The intriguing phenomenon of many-body localization (MBL) has attracted significant interest recently, but a complete characterization is still lacking. In this work, we introduce the total correlations, a concept from quantum information…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-11-09 J. Goold , C. Gogolin , S. R. Clark , J. Eisert , A. Scardicchio , A. Silva

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

Many-body localization provides a generic mechanism of ergodicity breaking in quantum systems. In contrast to conventional ergodic systems, many-body localized (MBL) systems are characterized by extensively many local integrals of motion…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-03-05 Anushya Chandran , Isaac H. Kim , Guifre Vidal , Dmitry A. Abanin

The phenomenon of quantum entanglement underlies several important protocols that enable emerging quantum technologies. Entangled states, however, are extremely delicate and often get perturbed by tiny fluctuations in their external…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-07 Jitendra Joshi , Mir Alimuddin , T S Mahesh , Manik Banik

Isolated interacting quantum systems generally thermalize, yet there are several examples for the breakdown of ergodicity, such as many-body localization and quantum scars. Recently, ergodicity breaking has been observed in systems…

The collective and quantum behavior of many-body systems may be harnessed to achieve fast charging of energy storage devices, which have been recently dubbed quantum batteries. In this paper, we present an extensive numerical analysis of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-20 Davide Rossini , Gian Marcello Andolina , Marco Polini

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

In quantum statistical mechanics, closed many-body systems that do not exhibit thermalization after an arbitrarily long time in spite of the presence of interactions are called as many-body localized systems, and recently have been…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-14 Fumihiko Sugino , Pramod Padmanabhan

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

Despite considerable efforts over the last decade, the high-energy phase diagram of the random-field Heisenberg chain still eludes our understanding, in particular the nature of the non-ergodic many-body localized (MBL) regime expected at…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-12-19 Nicolas Laflorencie , Jeanne Colbois , Fabien Alet

Strong disorder in interacting quantum systems can give rise to the phenomenon of Many-Body Localization (MBL), which defies thermalization due to the formation of an extensive number of quasi local integrals of motion. The one particle…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-03-14 Benjamin Villalonga , Xiongjie Yu , David J. Luitz , Bryan K. Clark

We analyze many body localization (MBL) in an interacting one-dimensional system with a deterministic aperiodic potential. Below the threshold value of the potential $h < h_c$, the non-interacting system has single particle mobility edges…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-09-06 Sabyasachi Nag , Arti Garg