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The transition between many-body localized states and the delocalized thermal states is an eigen-state phase transition at finite energy density outside the scope of conventional quantum statistical mechanics. In this work we investigate…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-08-13 Wei Zhang , Ziqiang Wang

Isolated quantum systems at strong disorder can display many-body localization (MBL), a remarkable phenomena characterized by an absence of conduction even at finite temperatures. As the ratio of interactions to disorder is increased, one…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2014-05-08 Tarun Grover

Many-body localization occurs in isolated quantum systems when Anderson localization persists in the presence of finite interactions. Despite strong evidence for the existence of a many-body localization transition a reliable extraction of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-09-17 Jonas A. Kjäll , Jens H. Bardarson , Frank Pollmann

We study the universal properties of eigenstate entanglement entropy across the transition between many-body localized (MBL) and thermal phases. We develop an improved real space renormalization group approach that enables numerical…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-09-18 Philipp T. Dumitrescu , Romain Vasseur , Andrew C. Potter

Disordered quantum systems undergoing a many-body localization (MBL) transition fail to reach thermal equilibrium under their own dynamics. Distinguishing between asymptotically localized or delocalized dynamics based on numerical results…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-06-28 Jonas Richter , Arijeet Pal

We numerically explore the many body localization (MBL) transition through the lens of the {\it entanglement spectrum}. While a direct transition from localization to thermalization is believed to obtain in the thermodynamic limit (the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-11-17 Scott D. Geraedts , Nicolas Regnault , Rahul M. Nandkishore

We investigate the occurrence of many-body localization (MBL) on a spin-1/2 transverse-field Ising model defined on a Chimera connectivity graph with random exchange interactions and longitudinal fields. We observe a transition from an…

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

Characterizing states of matter through the lens of their ergodic properties is a fascinating new direction of research. In the quantum realm, the many-body localization (MBL) was proposed to be the paradigmatic ergodicity breaking…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-01-01 J. Šuntajs , J. Bonča , T. Prosen , L. Vidmar

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…

Multifractal scaling of critical wave functions at a disorder-driven (Anderson) localization transition is modified near boundaries of a sample. Here this effect is studied for the example of the spin quantum Hall plateau transition using…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-12-07 Arvind R. Subramaniam , Ilya A. Gruzberg , Andreas W. W. Ludwig

While many studies point towards the existence of many-body localization (MBL) in one dimension, the fate of higher-dimensional strongly disordered systems is a topic of current debate. The latest experiments as well as several recent…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-05-13 Joey Li , Amos Chan , Thorsten B. Wahl

Recent studies on disorder-induced many-body localization (MBL) in non-Hermitian quantum systems have attracted great interest. However, the non-Hermitian disorder-free MBL still needs to be clarified. We consider a one-dimensional…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-11-27 Jinghu Liu , Zhihao Xu

Phase transitions are driven by collective fluctuations of a system's constituents that emerge at a critical point. This mechanism has been extensively explored for classical and quantum systems in equilibrium, whose critical behavior is…

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

Localization marks the breakdown of thermalization in subregions of quantum many-body systems in the presence of sufficiently large disorder. In this paper, we use numerical techniques to study thermalization and localization in a many-body…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-03-07 Spasen Chaykov , Brenden Bowen , Nishant Agarwal

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 study many-body localization (MBL) in a pair-hopping model exhibiting strong fragmentation of the Hilbert space. We show that several Krylov subspaces have both ergodic statistics in the thermodynamic limit and a dimension that scales…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-04-28 Loïc Herviou , Jens H. Bardarson , N. Regnault

We study localization properties of continuously monitored dynamics and associated measurement-induced phase transitions in disordered quantum many-body systems on the basis of the quantum trajectory approach. By calculating the fidelity…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-06-09 Kazuki Yamamoto , Ryusuke Hamazaki

Elements of eigenvectors obtained by exact diagonalization can be considered as two dimensional lattice sites, in which dynamics of a given initial state is seen as a percolating procedure on the lattice sites. Then one can use the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-03-02 Xiaolong Deng