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Experiments in cold atom systems see almost identical signatures of many body localization (MBL) in both one-dimensional ($d=1$) and two-dimensional ($d=2$) systems despite the thermal avalanche hypothesis showing that the MBL phase is…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-09-28 D. C. W. Foo , N. Swain , P. Sengupta , G. Lemarié , S. Adam

In one dimension, noninteracting particles can undergo a localization-delocalization transition in a quasiperiodic potential. Recent studies have suggested that this transition transforms into a many-body localization (MBL) transition upon…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-12-09 Ranjan Modak , Subroto Mukerjee

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 present a scaling theory of the many-body localisation transition in terms of emergent, characteristic energyscales. The analysis is based on the decomposition of the eigenstates in the basis of trivially localised states, resolved in…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-06-03 Sthitadhi Roy

Characterizing the many-body localization (MBL) transition in strongly disordered and interacting quantum systems is an important issue in the field of condensed matter physics. We study the single particle Green's functions for a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-10-29 Atanu Jana , V. Ravi Chandra , Arti Garg

Recently it has been suggested that many-body localization (MBL) can occur in translation-invariant systems, and candidate 1D models have been proposed. We find that such models, in contrast to MBL systems with quenched disorder, typically…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-08 Z. Papic , E. M. Stoudenmire , Dmitry A. Abanin

The connection between entanglement dynamics and non-equilibrium statistics in isolated many-body quantum systems has been established both theoretically and experimentally. Many-Body Localization (MBL), a phenomenon where interacting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-04 Peyman Azodi , Herschel A. Rabitz

We introduce a multi-scale diagonalization scheme to study the transition between the many-body localized and the ergodic phase in disordered quantum chains. The scheme assumes a sharp dichotomy between subsystems that behave as localized…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-11-28 Thimothée Thiery , Markus Müller , Wojciech De Roeck

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

Based on the short-time dynamic scaling form, a novel dynamic approach is proposed to tackle numerically the Kosterlitz-Thouless phase transition. Taking the two-dimensional XY model as an example, the exponential divergence of the spatial…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 B. Zheng , M. Schulz , S. Trimper

The effect of rare system-wide resonances in the many-body localization (MBL) transition has recently attracted significant attention. They are expected to play a prominent role in the stability of the MBL phase, prompting the development…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-11-13 Greivin Alfaro Miranda , Fabien Alet , Giulio Biroli , Leticia F. Cugliandolo , Nicolas Laflorencie , Marco Tarzia

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 propose a new approach to probing ergodicity and its breakdown in quantum many-body systems based on their response to a local perturbation. We study the distribution of matrix elements of a local operator between the system's…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-12-25 Maksym Serbyn , Z. Papić , Dmitry A. Abanin

The many-body localization (MBL) transition is a quantum phase transition involving highly excited eigenstates of a disordered quantum many-body Hamiltonian, which evolve from "extended/ergodic" (exhibiting extensive entanglement entropies…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-04-20 Piero Naldesi , Elisa Ercolessi , Tommaso Roscilde

The transition between ergodic phase and many-body localization (MBL) phase lies at the heart in understanding quantum thermalization of many-body systems. Here we predict a many-body critical phase in the one-dimensional extended…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-02-26 Yucheng Wang , Chen Cheng , Xiong-jun Liu , Dapeng Yu

Some interacting disordered many-body systems are unable to thermalize when the quenched disorder becomes larger than a threshold value. Although several properties of nonzero energy density eigenstates (in the middle of the many-body…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-09-09 Abhisek Samanta , Kedar Damle , Rajdeep Sensarma

The formation and migration of disconnections (line defects constrained to the grain boundary (GB) plane with both dislocation and step character) control many of the kinetic and dynamical properties of GBs and the polycrystalline materials…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-12-16 Kongtao Chen , David J. Srolovitz , Jian Han

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

Understanding under which conditions physical systems thermalize is a long-standing question in many-body physics. While generic quantum systems thermalize, there are known instances where thermalization is hindered, for example in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-08 Carlo Sparaciari , Marcel Goihl , Paul Boes , Jens Eisert , Nelly Huei Ying Ng

Many-body localization (MBL) describes a quantum phase where an isolated interacting system subject to sufficient disorder displays non-ergodic behavior, evading thermal equilibrium that occurs under its own dynamics. Previously, the…