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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…

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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

We are interested in how quantum data can allow for practical solutions to otherwise difficult computational problems. A notoriously difficult phenomenon from quantum many-body physics is the emergence of many-body localization (MBL). So…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-02-21 Alexander Gresch , Lennart Bittel , Martin Kliesch

We study a quantum spin system with local bilinear interactions and without quenched disorder which seems to display characteristic signatures of a many-body localisation (MBL) transition. From direct diagonalisation of small systems, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-06-01 James M. Hickey , Sam Genway , Juan P. Garrahan

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…

Many-body localization (MBL) hinders the thermalization of quantum many-body systems in the presence of strong disorder. In this work, we study the MBL regime in bond-disordered spin-1/2 XXZ spin chain, finding the multimodal distribution…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-02-12 Adith Sai Aramthottil , Piotr Sierant , Maciej Lewenstein , Jakub Zakrzewski

The many-body localization (MBL) proximity effect is an intriguing phenomenon where a thermal bath localizes due to the interaction with a disordered system. The interplay of thermal and non-ergodic behavior in these systems gives rise to a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-08-16 Pietro Brighi , Marko Ljubotina , Dmitry A. Abanin , Maksym Serbyn

Statistical mechanics provides a framework for describing the physics of large, complex many-body systems using only a few macroscopic parameters to determine the state of the system. For isolated quantum many-body systems, such a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-02-11 Piotr Sierant , Maciej Lewenstein , Antonello Scardicchio , Lev Vidmar , Jakub Zakrzewski

We give an introduction into some aspects of the emerging mathematical theory of many-body localization (MBL) for disordered quantum spin chains. In particular, we discuss manifestations of MBL such as zero-velocity Lieb-Robinson bounds,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-02-15 Günter Stolz

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 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

A key signature of MBL (many-body localization) is the slow rate at which information spreads. It is shown that the infinite random Heisenberg XXZ spin-$\frac12$ chain exhibits slow propagation of information (logarithmic light cone) in any…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Alexander Elgart , Abel Klein

We have recently shown that the logarithmic growth of the entanglement entropy following a quantum quench in a many-body localized (MBL) phase is accompanied by a slow growth of the number entropy, $S_N\sim\ln\ln t$. Here we provide an…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-01-22 Maximilian Kiefer-Emmanouilidis , Razmik Unanyan , Michael Fleischhauer , Jesko Sirker

We study many-body localization (MBL) in a one-dimensional system of spinless fermions with a deterministic aperiodic potential in the presence of long-range interactions or long-range hopping. Based on perturbative arguments there is a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-06-14 Sabyasachi Nag , Arti Garg

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

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

We study the real-time dynamics of a translationally invariant quantum spin chain, based on the East kinetically constrained glass model, in search for evidence of many-body localisation in the absence of disorder. Numerical simulations…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-10-07 Merlijn van Horssen , Emanuele Levi , Juan P. Garrahan

The law of statistical physics dictates that generic closed quantum many-body systems initialized in nonequilibrium will thermalize under their own dynamics. However, the emergence of many-body localization (MBL) owing to the interplay…

We numerically study the entanglement dynamics of free fermions on a cubic lattice with potential disorder following a quantum quench. We focus, in particular, on the metal-insulator transition at a critical disorder strength and compare…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-11-20 Y. Zhao , D. Feng , Y. Hu , S. Guo , J. Sirker