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The collective and quantum behavior of many-body systems may be harnessed to achieve fast charging of energy storage devices, which have been recently dubbed quantum batteries. In this paper, we present an extensive numerical analysis of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-20 Davide Rossini , Gian Marcello Andolina , Marco Polini

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…

Closed, interacting, quantum systems have the potential to transition to a many-body localized (MBL) phase under the presence of sufficiently strong disorder, hence breaking ergodicity and failing to thermalize. In this work we study the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-07-15 Benjamin Villalonga , Bryan K. Clark

We study a canonical many-body-localized (MBL) system with power-law-correlated disorders: $s=\frac{1}{2}$ spin chain in a random magnetic field. The power-law-correlated disorder can control the critical regime between the MBL and thermal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-20 Takahiro Orito , Yoshihito Kuno , Ikuo Ichinose

We introduce techniques for analysing the structure of quantum states of many-body localized (MBL) spin chains by identifying correlation clusters from pairwise correlations. These techniques proceed by interpreting pairwise correlations in…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-02-16 Kévin Hémery , Frank Pollmann , Adam Smith

As strength of disorder enhances beyond a threshold value in many-body systems, a fundamental transformation happens through which the entire spectrum localizes, a phenomenon known as many-body localization. This has profound implications…

Characterizing out-of-equilibrium many-body dynamics is a complex but crucial task for quantum applications and the understanding of fundamental phenomena. A central question is the role of localization in quenching quantum thermalization,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-02-20 Ken Xuan Wei , Chandrasekhar Ramanathan , Paola Cappellaro

Strong disorder inhibits thermalization in isolated quantum systems and may lead to many-body localization (MBL). In realistic situations, however, the observation of MBL is hindered by residual couplings of the system to an environment,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-04-01 Jonas Richter

The self-averaging behavior of interacting many-body quantum systems has been mostly studied at equilibrium. The present work addresses what happens out of equilibrium, as the increase of the strength of onsite disorder takes the system to…

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 address the critical properties of the many-body localization (MBL) phase transition in one-dimensional systems subject to spatially correlated disorder. We consider a general family of disorder models, parameterized by how strong the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-10-18 Zhengyan Darius Shi , Vedika Khemani , Romain Vasseur , Sarang Gopalakrishnan

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

We study the critical level statistics at the many-body localization (MBL) transition region in random spin systems. By employing the inter-sample randomness as indicator, we manage to locate the MBL transition point in both orthogonal and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-03-02 Wen-Jia Rao

Quantum phase transitions are a ubiquitous many-body phenomenon that occurs in a wide range of physical systems, including superconductors, quantum spin liquids, and topological materials. However, investigations of quantum critical systems…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-09-06 Timo Kist , Jose L. Lado , Christian Flindt

We show that a quantum phase transition from ergodic to many-body localized (MBL) phases can be induced via periodic pulsed manipulation of spin systems. Such a transition is enabled by the interplay between weak disorder and slow heating…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-03-28 Soonwon Choi , Dmitry A. Abanin , Mikhail D. Lukin

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 intriguing phenomenon of many-body localization (MBL) has attracted significant interest recently, but a complete characterization is still lacking. In this work, we introduce the total correlations, a concept from quantum information…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-11-09 J. Goold , C. Gogolin , S. R. Clark , J. Eisert , A. Scardicchio , A. Silva

The quantum random energy model provides a mean-field description of the equilibrium spin glass transition. We show that it further exhibits a many-body localization - delocalization (MBLD) transition when viewed as a closed quantum system.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-11-27 C. R. Laumann , A. Pal , A. Scardicchio

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

Quantum emulators, owing to their large degree of tunability and control, allow the observation of fine aspects of closed quantum many-body systems, as either the regime where thermalization takes place or when it is halted by the presence…