English
Related papers

Related papers: Localization as an entanglement phase transition i…

200 papers

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

We study the entanglement entropy(EE) of disordered one-dimensional spinless fermions with attractive interactions. With intensive numerical calculation of the EE using the density matrix renormalization group method, we find clear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-08 Rui-Lin Chu , An Zhao , Shun-Qing Shen

Identifying phase transition points is a fundamental challenge in condensed matter physics, particularly for transitions driven by quantum interference effects, such as Anderson and many-body localization. Recent studies have demonstrated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-27 Tiago Pernambuco , Jonas Maziero , Rafael Chaves

Anderson localization transitions are usually referred to as quantum phase transitions from delocalized states to localized states in disordered systems. Here we report an unconventional ``Anderson localization transition'' in…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-01-12 C. Wang , Wenxue He , Hechen Ren , X. R. Wang

The use of quantum entanglement to study condensed matter systems has been flourishing in critical systems and topological phases. Additionally, using real-space entanglement entropies and entanglement spectra one can characterize localized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-20 Ian Mondragon-Shem , Mayukh Khan , Taylor L. Hughes

We suggest that if a localized phase at nonzero temperature $T>0$ exists for strongly disordered and weakly interacting electrons, as recently argued, it will also occur when both disorder and interactions are strong and $T$ is very high.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 Vadim Oganesyan , David A. Huse

Anderson localization transitions are a universal quantum phenomenon sensitive to the disorder and dimensionality of electronic systems. Over the past decades, this intriguing topic has inspired overwhelmingly more theoretical studies than…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-31 Jinhao Cheng , Chen Wang , Wenxue He , Jiaojiao Wang , Yifan Pang , Fan Yang , Shuaishuai Ding , Hechen Ren , Wenping Hu

We study the statistical properties of a single two-level system (qubit) subject to repetitive ancilla-based measurements. This setup is a fundamental minimal model for exploring the intricate interplay between the unitary dynamics of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-26 Paul Pöpperl , Igor V. Gornyi , David B. Saakian , Oleg M. Yevtushenko

The strong long-range interaction leads to localization in the closed quantum system without disorders. Employing the exact diagonalization method, the author numerically investigates thermalization and many-body localization in…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-10-17 Chen Cheng

We introduce a novel class of phase transitions separating quantum states with different entanglement features. An example of such an "entanglement phase transition" is provided by the many-body localization transition in disordered quantum…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-10-11 Romain Vasseur , Andrew C. Potter , Yi-Zhuang You , Andreas W. W. Ludwig

We examine the onset of Anderson localization in three-dimensional systems with structural disorder in the form of lattice irregularities and in the absence of any on-site disordered potential. Analyzing two models with distinct types of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-05-29 Sourav Bhattacharjee , Piotr Sierant , Marek Dudyński , Jan Wehr , Jakub Zakrzewski , Maciej Lewenstein

We study Anderson transition for light in three dimensions by performing large-scale ab-initio simulations of electromagnetic wave transport in disordered ensembles of conducting spheres. A mobility edge that separates diffusive transport…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-04 Alexey Yamilov , Hui Cao , Sergey E. Skipetrov

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

It is believed that the two-dimensional (2D) Anderson model exhibits localization for any nonzero disorder in the thermodynamic limit and it is also well known that the finite-size effects are considerable in the weak disorder limit. Here…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-02-28 Jan Šuntajs , Tomaž Prosen , Lev Vidmar

We study a Lindbladian generalization of the Anderson model of localization that describes disordered free fermions coupled to a disordered environment. From finite size scaling of both eigenvalue statistics and participation ratio, we…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-01-30 Foster Thompson , Yi Huang , Alex Kamenev

Anderson (localization) transition is a universal wave phenomenon characterized by a disorder-induced quantum phase transition from extended to localized states, whereas the non-Hermitian skin effect is a generic feature of non-Hermitian…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-03-31 C. Wang , X. R. Wang , Hechen Ren

We study the entanglement in momentum space of the ground state of a disordered one-dimensional fermion lattice model with attractive interaction. We observe two components in the entanglement spectrum, one of which is related to…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-12-05 Bing-Tian Ye , Zhao-Yu Han , Liang-Zhu Mu , Heng Fan

Scrambling of quantum information in unitary evolution can be hindered due to measurements and localization, which pin quantum mechanical wavefunctions in real space suppressing entanglement in the steady state. In monitored free-fermionic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-24 Marcin Szyniszewski , Oliver Lunt , Arijeet Pal

Anderson localization is a phase transition between a metallic phase, where wavefunctions are extended and delocalized in space, and an insulating phase, where wavefunctions are completely localized. These transitions are driven by…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-01-30 Pasquale Marra

Information theory, rooted in computer science, and many-body physics, have traditionally been studied as (almost) independent fields. Only recently has this paradigm started to shift, with many-body physics being studied and characterized…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-02-20 Noa Feldman , Niv Davidson , Moshe Goldstein