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Many-body localization (MBL) is a novel prototype of ergodicity breaking due to the emergence of local integrals of motion (LIOMs) in a disordered interacting quantum system. To better understand the role played by the existence of such…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-08-10 S. Adami , M. Amini , M. Soltani

Mobility edge transitions from localized to extended states have been observed in two and three dimensional systems, for which sound theoretical explanations have also been derived. One-dimensional lattice models have failed to predict…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-06 Andre M. C. Souza , Roberto. F. S. Andrade

Within the standard model of many-body localization, i.e., the disordered chain of spinless fermions, we investigate how the interaction affects the many-body states in the basis of noninteracting localized Anderson states. From this…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-03-14 Peter Prelovšek , Osor S. Barišić , Marcin Mierzejewski

Many-body localization is characterized by a slow logarithmic growth of the entanglement entropy after a global quantum quench while the local memory of an initial density imbalance remains at infinite time. We investigate how much the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-05-30 David J. Luitz , Nicolas Laflorencie , Fabien Alet

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

The mechanisms by which isolated interacting quantum systems evade thermalization extend beyond disorder-induced many-body localization, encompassing a growing class of interaction-driven phenomena. We investigate a spin-1/2 ladder with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-17 Hanieh Najafzadeh , Abdollah Langari

Isolated quantum systems with quenched randomness exhibit many-body localization (MBL), wherein they do not reach local thermal equilibrium even when highly excited above their ground states. It is widely believed that individual…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-10-11 A. Chandran , A. Pal , C. R. Laumann , A. Scardicchio

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

Quantum many-body systems with sufficiently strong disorder can exhibit a non-equilibrium phenomenon, known as the many-body localization (MBL), which is distinct from conventional thermalization. While the MBL regime has been extensively…

We examine the stability of marginally Anderson localized phase transitions between localized phases to the addition of many-body interactions, focusing in particular on the spin-glass to paramagnet transition in a disordered transverse…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-08-21 Sanjay Moudgalya , David A. Huse , Vedika Khemani

Many body localization (MBL) represents a unique physical phenomenon, providing a testing ground for exploring thermalization, or more precisely its failure. Here we characterize the MBL regime geometrically by the many-body quantum metric…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-05-14 W. N. Faugno , Tomoki Ozawa

The existence of many-body mobility edges in closed quantum systems has been the focus of intense debate after the emergence of the description of the many-body localization phenomenon. Here we propose that this issue can be settled in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-05-01 Xing Bo Wei , Chen Cheng , Gao Xianlong , Rubem Mondaini

Many-body localization (MBL) has attracted significant attention due to its immunity to thermalization, role in logarithmic entanglement entropy growth, and opportunities to reach exotic quantum orders. However, experimental realization of…

Many-body localized (MBL) systems are known to thermalize in periodically driven systems. In this work, we demonstrate that under proper driving protocol, this thermalization this thermalization can be resisted such that the MBL phase turns…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-05-08 Biswajit Paul , Nilanjan Roy , Tapan Mishra

Dense suspensions of self-propelled rod-like particles exhibit a fascinating variety of non-equilibrium phenomena. By means of computer simulations of a minimal model for rigid self-propelled colloidal rods with variable shape we explore…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-04 H. H. Wensink , H. Löwen

Many-body localized systems in which interactions and disorder come together defy the expectations of quantum statistical mechanics: In contrast to ergodic systems, they do not thermalize when undergoing nonequilibrium dynamics. What is…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-01-29 K. S. C. Decker , D. M. Kennes , J. Eisert , C. Karrasch

The two primary categories for eigenstate phases of matter at finite temperature are many-body localization (MBL) and the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH). We show that in the paradigmatic quantum $p$-spin models of spin-glass…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-03-29 C. L. Baldwin , C. R. Laumann , A. Pal , A. Scardicchio

We study numerically the formation of entanglement clusters across the many-body localization phase transition. We observe a crossover from strong many-body entanglement in the ergodic phase to weak local correlations in the localized…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-04-24 Loïc Herviou , Soumya Bera , Jens H. Bardarson

We review some recent developments in the statistical mechanics of isolated quantum systems. We provide a brief introduction to quantum thermalization, paying particular attention to the `Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis' (ETH), and the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-04-07 Rahul Nandkishore , David A. Huse

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…