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Generic quantum many-body systems are expected to thermalize, scrambling initial coherence while local observables relax to equilibrium values. Weak ergodicity breaking, often associated with quantum many-body scarring of homogeneous…

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Understanding the stochastic properties of conductance fluctuations in disordered mesoscopic systems is fundamental to quantum transport. In this work, we investigate the multifractal and ergodic properties of the fictitious time series of…

We study the S=1/2 quantum spin ladder system with the four-spin exchange, using density matrix renormalization group method and an exact diagonalization method. Recently, the phase transition in this system and its universality class are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Keigo Hijii , Shaojin Qin , Kiyohide Nomura

We propose a general scheme for diagnosing interaction-driven topological phases in the weak interaction regime using exact diagonalization (ED). The scheme comprises the analysis of eigenvalues of the point-group operators for the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-08-09 Han-Qing Wu , Yuan-Yao He , Chen Fang , Zi Yang Meng , Zhong-Yi Lu

Strongly interacting quantum many-body systems are expected to thermalize, however, some evade thermalization due to symmetries. Quantum synchronization provides one such example of ergodicity breaking, but previous studies have focused on…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-02-13 Nicolas Loizeau , Berislav Buča

We study a one-dimensional (1d) XXZ spin-chain in a random field on the metallic side of the many-body localization transition by level statistics. For a fixed interaction, and intermediate disorder below the many-body localization…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-11-28 Corentin L. Bertrand , Antonio M. García-García

We present a numerical study of a quantum phase transition from a spin-polarized to a topologically ordered phase in a system of spin-1/2 particles on a torus. We demonstrate that this non-symmetry-breaking topological quantum phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-06-07 A. Hamma , W. Zhang , S. Haas , D. A. Lidar

We investigate many-body localization of interacting spinless fermions in a one-dimensional disordered and tilted lattice. The fermions undergo energy-dependent transitions from ergodic to Stark many-body localization driven by the tilted…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-03 Li Zhang , Yongguan Ke , Wenjie Liu , Chaohong Lee

We consider a system of mutually interacting spin 1/2 embedded in a transverse magnetic field which undergo a second order quantum phase transition. We analyze the entanglement properties and the spin squeezing of the ground state and show…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Vidal , G. Palacios , R. Mosseri

We prove a trade-off theorem for order and disorder parameters in one-dimensional quantum spin systems with quenched disorder. For a disordered ensemble with exact Ising symmetry and average translation symmetry, any gapped ensemble must…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-05-29 Jinmin Yi , Chong Wang

We study analytically the metal-insulator transition in a disordered conductor by combining the self-consistent theory of localization with the one parameter scaling theory. We provide explicit expressions of the critical exponents and the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-13 Antonio M. Garcia-Garcia

We study the average and the standard deviation of the entanglement entropy of highly excited eigenstates of the integrable interacting spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ XYZ chain away from and at special lines with $U(1)$ symmetry and supersymmetry. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-02-28 Rafał Świętek , Maksymilian Kliczkowski , Lev Vidmar , Marcos Rigol

The frustrated ferromagnetic spin-1/2 Heisenberg chain is studied by means of a low-energy field theory as well as the density-matrix renormalization group and exact diagonalization methods. Firstly, we study the ground-state phase diagram…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Heidrich-Meisner , A. Honecker , T. Vekua

In this letter we study finite temperature properties of spin-1/2 interacting bosons with spin-orbit coupling in two dimensions. When the ground state has stripe order, we show that thermal fluctuations will first melt the stripe order and…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-08-30 Chao-Ming Jian , Hui Zhai

We study gapless quantum spin chains with spin 1/2 and 1: the Fredkin and Motzkin models. Their entangled groundstates are known exactly but not their excitation spectra. We first express the groundstates in the continuum which allows for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-10-25 Xiao Chen , Eduardo Fradkin , William Witczak-Krempa

Disorder free many-body localization (MBL) can occur in interacting systems that can dynamically generate their own disorder. We address the thermal-MBL phase transition of two isotropic Heisenberg spin chains that are quasi-periodically…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-09-04 K. G. S. H. Gunawardana , Bruno Uchoa

We present an exact solution for a quantum spin chain driven through its critical points. Our approach is based on a many-body generalization of the Landau-Zener transition theory, applied to fermionized spin Hamiltonian. The resulting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-12 R. W. Cherng , L. S. Levitov

The information theoretic observables entropy (a measure of disorder), excess entropy (a measure of complexity) and multi information are used to analyze ground-state spin configurations for disordered and frustrated model systems in 2D and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-05-30 O. Melchert , A. K. Hartmann

We investigate entanglement properties of the excited states of the spin-1/2 Heisenberg (XXX) chain with isotropic antiferromagnetic interactions, by exploiting the Bethe ansatz solution of the model. We consider eigenstates obtained from…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-10-28 Jan Mölter , Thomas Barthel , Ulrich Schollwöck , Vincenzo Alba

This paper originates from lectures delivered at the summer school "Fundamental Problems in Statistical Physics XV" in Bruneck, Italy, in 2021. We give a brief and limited introduction into ergodicity-breaking induced by disorder. As the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-08-17 Wojciech De Roeck , François Huveneers , Branko Meeus , Oskar A. Prośniak