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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) addresses the absence of thermalization in interacting quantum systems, with non-ergodic high-energy eigenstates behaving as ground states, only area-law entangled. However, computing highly excited many-body…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-01-23 Maxime Dupont , Nicolas Laflorencie

Many-body localization provides a mechanism to avoid thermalization in isolated interacting quantum systems. The breakdown of thermalization may be complete, when all eigenstates in the many-body spectrum become localized, or partial, when…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-09-02 Pietro Brighi , Dmitry Abanin , Maksym Serbyn

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

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

Thermalizing quantum systems are conventionally described by statistical mechanics at equilibrium. However, not all systems fall into this category, with many body localization providing a generic mechanism for thermalization to fail in…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-05-29 Dmitry A. Abanin , Ehud Altman , Immanuel Bloch , Maksym Serbyn

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

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

In this work we introduce the many-body synchronization of an interacting qubit ensemble which allows one to switch dynamically from many-body-localized (MBL) to an ergodic state. We show that applying of $\pi$-pulses with altering phases,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-12-13 Sergey V. Remizov , Dmitriy S. Shapiro , Alexey N. Rubtsov

The exploration of large-scale many-body phenomena in quantum materials has produced many important experimental discoveries, including novel states of entanglement, topology and quantum order as found for example in quantum spin ices,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-05-01 John Sous , Edward Grant

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

We study a model of interacting fermions in one dimension subject to random, uncorrelated onsite disorder. The model realizes an interaction-driven quantum phase transition between an ergodic and a many-body localized phase (MBL). We…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-07-19 Soumya Bera , Thomas Martynec , Henning Schomerus , Fabian Heidrich-Meisner , Jens H. Bardarson

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

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

Many-body localization (MBL) is currently a hot issue of interacting systems, in which quantum mechanics overcomes thermalization of statistical mechanics. Like Anderson localization of non-interacting electrons, disorders are usually…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-12-28 Rong-Qiang He , Zheng-Yu Weng

In the study of the thermalization of closed quantum systems, the role of kinetic constraints on the temporal dynamics and the eventual thermalization is attracting significant interest. Kinetic constraints typically lead to long-lived…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-03-29 Karl Royen , Suman Mondal , Frank Pollmann , Fabian Heidrich-Meisner

Many-body eigenstates that are neither thermal nor many-body-localized (MBL) were numerically found in certain interacting chains with moderate quasiperiodic potentials. The energy regime consisting of these non-ergodic but extended (NEE)…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-05-12 Colin Beveridge , Kathleen Hart , Cassio Rodrigo Cristani , Xiao Li , Enrico Barbierato , Yi-Ting Hsu

The explorations of non-Hermiticity have been devoted to investigate the disorder-induced many-body localization (MBL). However, the sensitivity of the spatial boundary conditions and the interplay of the non-Hermitian skin effect with…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-12-09 Kuldeep Suthar , Yi-Cheng Wang , Yi-Ping Huang , H. H. Jen , Jhih-Shih You

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

We analyze a disordered central spin model, where a central spin interacts equally with each spin in a periodic one dimensional random-field Heisenberg chain. If the Heisenberg chain is initially in the many-body localized (MBL) phase, we…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-11-07 Daniel Hetterich , Norman Y. Yao , Maksym Serbyn , Frank Pollmann , Björn Trauzettel