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We determine whether or not it is possible to identify many-body localization in quantum dot arrays, given their current technological capacities. We analyze the phase diagram of an extended Fermi-Hubbard model - a theoretical system that…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-01-20 Alexander Nico-Katz , Gulzat Jaliel , Paola Atkinson , Thomas A. Mitchell , David A. Ritchie , Charles G. Smith , Sougato Bose

We investigate dynamical quantum phase transitions in disordered quantum many-body models that can support many-body localized phases. Employing $l$-bits formalism, we lay out the conditions for which singularities indicative of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-03-11 Jad C. Halimeh , Nikolay Yegovtsev , Victor Gurarie

Many-body localization is characterized by a slow logarithmic growth of the entanglement entropy after a global quantum quench while the local memory of an initial density imbalance remains at infinite time. We investigate how much the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-05-30 David J. Luitz , Nicolas Laflorencie , Fabien Alet

We are interested in how quantum data can allow for practical solutions to otherwise difficult computational problems. A notoriously difficult phenomenon from quantum many-body physics is the emergence of many-body localization (MBL). So…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-02-21 Alexander Gresch , Lennart Bittel , Martin Kliesch

We experimentally study many-body localization (MBL) with ultracold atoms in a weak one-dimensional quasiperiodic potential, which in the noninteracting limit exhibits an intermediate phase that is characterized by a mobility edge. We…

Determining the border between ergodic and localized behavior is of central interest for interacting many-body systems. We consider here the recently very popular spin-chain model that is periodically excited. A convenient description of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-09-01 Daniel Waltner , Petr Braun

Quantum information theory has considerably helped in the understanding of quantum many-body systems. The role of quantum correlations and in particular, bipartite entanglement, has become crucial to characterise, classify and simulate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-27 Gabriele De Chiara , Anna Sanpera

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 interference lies at the heart of several surprising equilibrium and non-equilibrium phenomena in many-body Physics. Here we discuss two recently explored non-equilibrium scenarios where external periodic drive applied to closed…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-08-02 Asmi Haldar , Arnab Das

Coupling a many-body-localized system to a dissipative bath necessarily leads to delocalization. Here, we investigate the nature of the ensuing relaxation dynamics and the information it holds on the many-body-localized state. We formulate…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-04-20 Mark H Fischer , Mykola Maksymenko , Ehud Altman

State-of-the-art quantum simulators permit local temporal control of interactions and midcircuit readout. These capabilities open the way towards the exploration of intriguing nonequilibrium phenomena. We illustrate this with a kinetically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-12 Marcel Cech , María Cea , Mari Carmen Bañuls , Igor Lesanovsky , Federico Carollo

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 use complexity theory to rigorously investigate the difficulty of classically simulating evolution under many-body localized (MBL) Hamiltonians. Using the defining feature that MBL systems have a complete set of quasilocal integrals of…

The schematic model of interacting spins is introduced, which combines the symmetry of hypercube with the simplicity of random regular graph with degree three, i.e. the random cubic graph. We study the localization transition in this model,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-20 Frantisek Slanina

Recent experiments in quantum simulators have provided evidence for the Many-Body Localized (MBL) phase in 1D and 2D bosonic quantum matter. The theoretical study of such bosonic MBL, however, is a daunting task due to the unbounded nature…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-10-28 Sun Woo Kim , Giuseppe De Tomasi , Markus Heyl

Insertion of disorder in thermal interacting quantum systems decreases the amount of level repulsion and can turn them into many body localized phases. In this paper we use the many body picture to perturbatively study the effect of level…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-02-06 Jonas A. Kjäll

Many-particle confinement (localization) is studied for a 1D system of spinless fermions with nearest-neighbor hopping and interaction, or equivalently, for an anisotropic Heisenberg spin-1/2 chain. This system is frequently used to model…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. I. Dykman , L. F. Santos , M. Shapiro

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 propose and analyze a new approach to the coherent control and manipulation of quantum degrees of freedom in disordered, interacting systems in the many-body localized phase. Our approach leverages a number of unique features of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-31 Soonwon Choi , Norman Y. Yao , Sarang Gopalakrishnan , Mikhail D. Lukin

Interacting many-body quantum systems and their dynamics, while fundamental to modern science and technology, are formidable to simulate and understand. However, by discovering their symmetries, conservation laws, and integrability one can…