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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 propose a multi-scale diagonalization scheme to study disordered one-dimensional chains, in particular the transition between many-body localization (MBL) and the ergodic phase, expected to be governed by resonant spots. Our scheme…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-10-10 Thimothée Thiery , François Huveneers , Markus Müller , Wojciech De Roeck

Characterizing the many-body localization (MBL) transition in strongly disordered and interacting quantum systems is an important issue in the field of condensed matter physics. We study the single particle Green's functions for a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-10-29 Atanu Jana , V. Ravi Chandra , Arti Garg

Many-body localization (MBL) provides a mechanism by which interacting quantum systems evade thermalization, leading to persistent memory of initial conditions and slow entanglement growth. Probing these dynamical signatures in large…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-16 Kazuma Nagao , Tomonori Shirakawa , Rongyang Sun , Peter Prelovšek , Seiji Yunoki

Recent developments in matrix-product-state (MPS) investigations of many-body localization (MBL) are reviewed, with a discussion of benefits and limitations of the method. This approach allows one to explore the physics around the MBL…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-04-29 Elmer V. H. Doggen , Igor V. Gornyi , Alexander D. Mirlin , Dmitry G. Polyakov

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 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 low-frequency response of systems near the many-body localization phase transition, on either side of the transition, is dominated by contributions from rare regions that are locally "in the other phase", i.e., rare localized regions in…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-04-25 Kartiek Agarwal , Ehud Altman , Eugene Demler , Sarang Gopalakrishnan , David A. Huse , Michael Knap

Many-body localization (MBL) is currently a hot issue of interacting systems, in which quantum mechanics overcomes thermalization of statistical mechanics. Like Anderson localization of non-interacting electrons, disorders are usually…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-12-28 Rong-Qiang He , Zheng-Yu Weng

Simulations of colloidal suspensions consisting of mesoscopic particles and smaller species such as ions or depletants are computationally challenging as different length and time scales are involved. Here, we introduce a machine learning…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-12-01 Gerardo Campos-Villalobos , Emanuele Boattini , Laura Filion , Marjolein Dijkstra

Sufficient disorder is believed to localize static and periodically-driven interacting chains. With quasiperiodic driving by $D$ incommensurate tones, the fate of this many-body localization (MBL) is unknown. We argue that randomly…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-04-20 David M. Long , Philip J. D. Crowley , Anushya Chandran

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

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

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

We theoretically study transport properties in one-dimensional interacting quasiperiodic systems at infinite temperature. We compare and contrast the dynamical transport properties across the many-body localization (MBL) transition in…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-09-21 F. Setiawan , Dong-Ling Deng , J. H. Pixley

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…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-05 Marco Tarzia

We derive general constraints on the existence of many-body localized (MBL) phases in the presence of global symmetries, and show that MBL is not possible with symmetry groups that protect multiplets (e.g. all non-Abelian symmetry groups).…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-12-30 Andrew C. Potter , Romain Vasseur

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

The localization properties of one-dimensional degenerate Fermi gases with cavity-assisted non-local quasiperiodic interactions are numerically studied. Although the cavity-induced interaction is typically nonlocal, it is proved that the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-09-21 Jianwen Jie , Qingze Guan , Jian-Song Pan

We study the fate of many-body localization (MBL) in the presence of long-range hopping ($\sim 1/r^{\sigma}$) in a system subjected to an electric field (static and time-periodic) along with a slowly-varying aperiodic potential. We show…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-09-01 Devendra Singh Bhakuni , Auditya Sharma