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Many-body localization (MBL) is an intriguing physical phenomenon that arises from the interplay of interaction and disorder, allowing quantum systems to prevent thermalization. In this study, we investigate the MBL properties of the fully…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-02-20 Jiameng Hong , Taotao Hu

The phenomenon of many-body localised (MBL) systems has attracted significant interest in recent years, for its intriguing implications from a perspective of both condensed-matter and statistical physics: they are insulators even at…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-07-08 M. Goihl , M. Friesdorf , A. H. Werner , W. Brown , J. Eisert

We study the many-body localization (MBL) properties of the Heisenberg XXZ spin-$\frac12$ chain in a random magnetic field. We prove that the system exhibits localization in any given energy interval at the bottom of the spectrum in a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-01-08 Alexander Elgart , Abel Klein

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

We study the many-body localization aspects of single-particle mobility edges in fermionic systems. We investigate incommensurate lattices and random disorder Anderson models. Many-body localization and quantum nonergodic properties are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-06-07 Xiaopeng Li , J. H. Pixley , Dong-Ling Deng , Sriram Ganeshan , S. Das Sarma

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

Many-body localization (MBL) has emerged as a novel paradigm for robust ergodicity breaking in closed quantum many-body systems. However, it is not yet clear to which extent MBL survives in the presence of dissipative processes induced by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-06-21 Emanuele Levi , Markus Heyl , Igor Lesanovsky , Juan P. Garrahan

We consider a quench in an infinite spin ladder describing a system with two species of bosons in the limit of strong interactions. If the heavy bosonic species has infinite mass the model becomes a spin chain with quenched binary disorder…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-03-01 J. Sirker

We study the localization problem of one-dimensional interacting spinless fermions in an incommensurate optical lattice, which changes from an extended phase to a nonergoic many-body localized phase by increasing the strength of the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-01-03 Yucheng Wang , Haiping Hu , Shu Chen

This article reviews recent progress in understanding the physics of many-body localisation (MBL) in disordered and interacting quantum many-body systems, from the perspective of ergodicity breaking on the associated Fock space. This…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-12-09 Sthitadhi Roy , David E. Logan

We review recent results on many-body localization for two explicitly analyzable models of many-body quantum systems, the XY spin chain in transversal magnetic field as well as interacting systems of harmonic quantum oscillators. In both…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-01-03 Robert Sims , Gunter Stolz

The disordered many-body systems can undergo a transition from the extended ensemble to a localized ensemble, known as many-body localization (MBL), which has been intensively explored in recent years. Nevertheless, the relation between…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-10-17 Hong-Ze Xu , Shun-Yao Zhang , Ze-Yu Rao , Zhengwei Zhou , Guang-Can Guo , Ming Gong

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

We present an introductory review of nonergodic dynamics in interacting many-body quantum systems, focusing on the phenomenon of many-body localization (MBL). We describe aspects of MBL and summarize the evidence for a crossover from the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Jakub Zakrzewski

We experimentally observe many-body localization of interacting fermions in a one-dimensional quasi-random optical lattice. We identify the many-body localization transition through the relaxation dynamics of an initially-prepared charge…

Despite a very good understanding of single-particle Anderson localization in one-dimensional (1D) disordered systems, many-body effects are still full of surprises, a famous example being the interaction-driven many-body localization (MBL)…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-11-14 Jeanne Colbois , Nicolas Laflorencie

We find that a flat-band fermion system with interactions and without disorders exhibits non-thermalized ergodicity-breaking dynamics, an analog of many-body localization (MBL). In the previous works, we observed flat-band many-body…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-02-24 Takahiro Orito , Yoshihito Kuno , Ikuo Ichinose

Many-body localization (MBL) is understood theoretically through the existence of an extensive number of local integrals of motion (LIOMs). These conserved quantities are related to the microscopic quantum degrees of freedom that are…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-12-11 Ben Craps , Oleg Evnin , Dmitry Kovrizhin , Gabriele Pascuzzi

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

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