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We formulate a dynamical real space renormalization group approach to describe the time evolution of a random spin-1/2 chain, or interacting fermions, initialized in a state with fixed particle positions. Within this approach we identify a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2014-11-04 Ronen Vosk , Ehud Altman

I discuss the quantum dynamics of strongly disordered quantum systems with critically long range interactions, decaying as $1/r^{2d}$ in $d$ spatial dimensions. I argue that, contrary to expectations, localization in such systems is stable…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-08-25 Rahul Nandkishore

In this paper, we theoretically investigate the many-body localization (MBL) properties of one-dimensional anisotropic spin-1/2 chains by using the exact matrix diagonalization method. Starting from the Ising spin-1/2 chain, we introduce…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-04-15 Taotao Hu , Yuting Li , Jiameng Hong , Xiaodan Li , Dongyan Guo , Kangning Chen

We investigate the general features of the renormalization-group flow at the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition, providing a thorough quantitative description of the asymptotc critical behavior, including the multiplicative…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-03-19 Andrea Pelissetto , Ettore Vicari

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 analyze the finite-size scaling of the average gap-ratio and the entanglement entropy across the many-body localization (MBL) transition in one dimensional Heisenberg spin-chain with quasi-periodic (QP) potential. By using the recently…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-12-10 Adith Sai Aramthottil , Titas Chanda , Piotr Sierant , Jakub Zakrzewski

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

We analyze many-body localization (MBL) to delocalization transition in Sherrington-Kirkpatrick (SK) model of Ising spin glass (SG) in the presence of a transverse field $\Gamma$. Based on energy resolved analysis, which is of relevance for…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-04-25 Sudip Mukherjee , Sabyasachi Nag , Arti Garg

Some interacting disordered many-body systems are unable to thermalize when the quenched disorder becomes larger than a threshold value. Although several properties of nonzero energy density eigenstates (in the middle of the many-body…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-09-09 Abhisek Samanta , Kedar Damle , Rajdeep Sensarma

We use exact diagonalization to explore the many-body localization transition in a random-field spin-1/2 chain. We examine the correlations within each many-body eigenstate, looking at all high-energy states and thus effectively working at…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-05-20 Arijeet Pal , David A. Huse

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

Anderson localization on random regular graphs (RRG) serves as a toy-model of many-body localization (MBL). We explore the transition for ergodicity to localization on RRG with large connectivity $m$. In the analytical part, we focus on the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-10-12 Jan-Niklas Herre , Jonas F. Karcher , Konstantin S. Tikhonov , Alexander D. Mirlin

While there are well established methods to study delocalization transitions of single particles in random systems, it remains a challenging problem how to characterize many body delocalization transitions. Here, we use a generalized…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-09-28 N. Moure , S. Haas , S. Kettemann

Utilizing exact diagonalization (ED) techniques, we investigate a one-dimensional, non-reciprocal, interacting hard-core boson model under a Stark potential with tail curvature. By employing the non-zero imaginary eigenenergies ratio,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-10-20 Han-Ze Li , Xue-Jia Yu , Jian-Xin Zhong

The article reviews the physics of Anderson localization on random regular graphs (RRG) and its connections to many-body localization (MBL) in disordered interacting systems. Properties of eigenstate and energy level correlations in…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-10-15 K. S. Tikhonov , A. D. Mirlin

We consider a new class of unconventional critical phenomena that is characterized by singularities only in dynamical quantities and has no thermodynamic signatures. A possible example is the recently proposed many-body localization…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-04-22 David Pekker , Gil Refael , Ehud Altman , Eugene Demler , Vadim Oganesyan

Many-body localization has become an important phenomenon for illuminating a potential rift between non-equilibrium quantum systems and statistical mechanics. However, the nature of the transition between ergodic and localized phases in…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-06-04 Johnnie Gray , Sougato Bose , Abolfazl Bayat

We theoretically investigate the many-body localization phase transition in a one-dimensional Ising spin chain with random long-range spin-spin interactions, $V_{ij}\propto\left|i-j\right|^{-\alpha}$, where the exponent of the interaction…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-12-28 Haoyuan Li , Jia Wang , Xia-Ji Liu , Hui Hu

In thermal phases, the quantum coherence of individual degrees of freedom is rapidly lost to the environment. Many-body localized (MBL) phases limit the spread of this coherence and appear promising for quantum information applications.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-31 Norman Y. Yao , Chris R. Laumann , Ashvin Vishwanath

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…