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Many-body localization (MBL) in a one-dimensional Fermi Hubbard model with random on-site interactions is studied. While for this model all single-particle states are trivially delocalized, it is shown that for sufficiently strong…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-11-22 Yevgeny Bar Lev , David R. Reichman , Yoav Sagi

We study a quantum spin system with local bilinear interactions and without quenched disorder which seems to display characteristic signatures of a many-body localisation (MBL) transition. From direct diagonalisation of small systems, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-06-01 James M. Hickey , Sam Genway , Juan P. Garrahan

Quantum many-body systems pose a formidable computational challenge due to the exponential growth of their Hilbert space. While machine learning (ML) has shown promise as an alternative paradigm, most applications remain at the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-02-03 Yilun Gao , Alberto Rodríguez , Rudolf A. Römer

Understanding under which conditions physical systems thermalize is a long-standing question in many-body physics. While generic quantum systems thermalize, there are known instances where thermalization is hindered, for example in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-08 Carlo Sparaciari , Marcel Goihl , Paul Boes , Jens Eisert , Nelly Huei Ying Ng

This article reviews recent progress in understanding the physics of many-body localisation (MBL) in disordered and interacting quantum many-body systems, from the perspective of ergodicity breaking on the associated Fock space. This…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-12-09 Sthitadhi Roy , David E. Logan

Recent experimental and theoretical efforts have focused on the effect of dissipation on quantum many-body systems in their many-body localized (MBL) phase. While in the presence of dephasing noise such systems reach a unique ergodic state,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-02-01 Benjamin Everest , Igor Lesanovsky , Juan P. Garrahan , Emanuele Levi

Disorder and interactions can lead to the breakdown of statistical mechanics in certain quantum systems, a phenomenon known as many-body localization (MBL). Much of the phenomenology of MBL emerges from the existence of $\ell$-bits, a set…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-05-19 Eli Chertkov , Benjamin Villalonga , Bryan K. Clark

Decay of a particle into more particles is a ubiquitous phenomenon to interacting quantum systems, taking place in colliders, nuclear reactors, or solids. In a non-linear medium, even a single photon would decay by down-converting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-22 Nitish Mehta , Roman Kuzmin , Cristiano Ciuti , Vladimir E. Manucharyan

A generic closed quantum many-body system will inevitably tend to thermalization, whose local information encoded in the initial state eventually scrambles into the full space, known as quantum ergodicity. A paradigmatic exception in closed…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-01-17 Xiang-Ping Jiang , Mingdi Xu , Xuanpu Yang , Hongsheng Hou , Yucheng Wang , Lei Pan

We explore the use of short-range entanglement measures, such as concurrence and negativity, and global entanglement measures such as geometric entanglement, as indicators of many-body localization (MBL) in the spectra of disordered spin…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-14 Colin G. West , Tzu-Chieh Wei

We characterize the Many-Body Localization (MBL) phase transition using the dynamics of spread complexity and inverse participation ratio in the Krylov space starting from different initial states. Our analysis of the disordered Heisenberg…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-09-05 Maitri Ganguli , Aneek Jana

The transition from a many-body localized phase to a thermalizing one is a dynamical quantum phase transition which lies outside the framework of equilibrium statistical mechanics. We provide a detailed study of the critical properties of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-04-27 Vedika Khemani , S. P. Lim , D. N. Sheng , David A. Huse

In this work, the interplay between non-Hermiticity, quasi-disorder, and repulsive interaction is studied for hard-core bosons confined in a one-dimensional optical lattice, where non-Hermiticity is induced by the non-reciprocal hoppings…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-04-29 Shujie Cheng , Xixi Feng , Wen Chen , Niaz Ali Khan , Gao Xianlong

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

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…

Considering ultracold atoms in optical lattices, we propose experimental protocols to study many-body localization (MBL) length and criticality in quench dynamics. Through numerical simulations with exact diagonalization, we show that in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-03-30 Xuefei Guo , Xiaopeng Li

The dynamical phase diagram of interacting disordered systems has seen substantial revision over the past few years. Theory must now account for a large prethermal many-body localized (MBL) regime in which thermalization is extremely slow,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-09-11 David M. Long , Philip J. D. Crowley , Vedika Khemani , Anushya Chandran

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

The nature of the dynamical quantum phase transition between the many-body localized (MBL) phase and the thermal phase remains an open question, and one line of attack on this problem is to explore this transition numerically in finite-size…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-12-21 Liangsheng Zhang , Vedika Khemani , David A. Huse

Born machines are quantum-inspired generative models that leverage the probabilistic nature of quantum states. Here, we present a new architecture called many-body localized (MBL) hidden Born machine that utilizes both MBL dynamics and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-29 Weishun Zhong , Xun Gao , Susanne F. Yelin , Khadijeh Najafi