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We study Hilbert-space localization of the many-body dynamics due to ergodicity breaking and analyze this effect in terms of the entanglement entropy and the entanglement spectrum. We find a transition from a regime driven by quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-13 Quancheng Liu , Klaus Ziegler

The prevalence of sparsity in interacting many-body systems motivates an investigation into the spectral statistics of sparse random matrices with on-site disorder. We numerically demonstrate that the Anderson transition can be identified…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-03-24 Sagnik Seth , Adway Kumar Das , Anandamohan Ghosh

We review some recent developments in the statistical mechanics of isolated quantum systems. We provide a brief introduction to quantum thermalization, paying particular attention to the `Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis' (ETH), and the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-04-07 Rahul Nandkishore , David A. Huse

The semi-infinite XY spin chain with an impurity at the boundary has been chosen as a prototype of interacting many-body systems to test for non-ergodic behavior. The model is exactly solvable in analytic way in the thermodynamic limit,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-10-17 A. O. García Rodríguez , G. G. Cabrera

We examine the interplay of interaction and disorder for a Heisenberg spin ladder system with random fields. We identify many-body localized states based on the entanglement entropy scaling, where delocalized and localized states have…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-12-09 Elliott Baygan , S. P. Lim , D. N. Sheng

Scrambling in many-body quantum systems causes initially local observables to spread uniformly over the whole available Hilbert space under unitary dynamics, which in lattice systems causes exponential suppression of dynamical correlation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-07-27 Felix Fritzsch , Tomaž Prosen

This paper is a physicist's review of the major conceptual issues concerning the problem of spectral universality in quantum systems. Here we present a unified, graph-based view of all archetypical models of such universality (billiards,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-19 Wen Wei Ho , Djordje Radicevic

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

We study the many-body localization of spin chain systems with quasiperiodic fields. We identify the lower bound for the critical disorder necessary to drive the transition between the thermal and many-body localized phase to be $W_{cl}\sim…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-08-30 Mac Lee , Thomas R. Look , D. N. Sheng , S. P. Lim

We investigate the ergodicity-to-localization transition in interacting fermion systems subjected to a spatially uniform electric field. For that we employ the recently proposed Tensorflow Equations (TFE), a type of continuous unitary flow…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-07-16 Jan-Niklas Herre , Qiyu Liu , Roman Rausch , Christoph Karrasch , Dante M. Kennes

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

We identify a new "order parameter" for the disorder driven many-body localization (MBL) transition by leveraging artificial intelligence. This allows us to pin down the transition, as the point at which the physics changes qualitatively,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-19 Patrick Huembeli , Alexandre Dauphin , Peter Wittek , Christian Gogolin

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 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

In this work, we present a quantum Markov chain algorithm for many-body systems that utilizes a special phase of matter known as the Many-Body Localized (MBL) phase. We show how the properties of the MBL phase enable one to address the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Mauro D'Arcangelo , Younes Javanmard , Natalie Pearson

Characterizing the delocalization transition in closed quantum systems with a many-body localized phase is a key open question in the field of nonequilibrium physics. We exploit that localization of particles as realized in Anderson and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-12-17 Miroslav Hopjan , Giuliano Orso , Fabian Heidrich-Meisner

It is challenging to probe ergodicity breaking trends of a quantum many-body system when dissipation inevitably damages quantum coherence originated from coherent coupling and dispersive two-body interactions. Rydberg atoms provide a test…

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 investigate the phenomenon of spatial many-body localization (MBL) through pairwise correlation measures based on one and two-point correlation functions. The system considered is the Heisenberg spin-1/2 chain with exchange interaction…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-07-26 Jaime L. C. da C. Filho , Andreia Saguia , Lea F. Santos , Marcelo S. Sarandy

We study the transition from a many-body localized phase to an ergodic phase in spin chain with correlated random magnetic fields. Using multiple statistical measures like gap statistics and extremal entanglement spectrum distributions, we…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-09-14 Abhisek Samanta , Ahana Chakraborty , Rajdeep Sensarma