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We study the universal properties of eigenstate entanglement entropy across the transition between many-body localized (MBL) and thermal phases. We develop an improved real space renormalization group approach that enables numerical…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-09-18 Philipp T. Dumitrescu , Romain Vasseur , Andrew C. Potter

At the quantum many-body level, atom-light interfaces generally remain challenging to solve for or understand in a non-perturbative fashion. Here, we consider a waveguide quantum electrodynamics model, where two-level atoms interact with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 Nikos Fayard , Loïc Henriet , Ana Asenjo-Garcia , Darrick Chang

Quantum many-body systems with sufficiently strong disorder can exhibit a non-equilibrium phenomenon, known as the many-body localization (MBL), which is distinct from conventional thermalization. While the MBL regime has been extensively…

We examine the standard model of many-body localization (MBL), i.e., the disordered chain of interacting spinless fermions, by representing it as the network in the many-body (MB) basis of noninteracting localized Anderson states. By…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-02-04 P. Prelovšek , M. Mierzejewski , J. Krsnik , O. S. Barišić

The many-body localization (MBL) phase transition is not a conventional thermodynamic phase transition. Thus to define the phase transition one should allow the possibility of taking the limit of an infinite system in a way that is not the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-04-24 Sarang Gopalakrishnan , David A. Huse

Phase transitions are driven by collective fluctuations of a system's constituents that emerge at a critical point. This mechanism has been extensively explored for classical and quantum systems in equilibrium, whose critical behavior is…

We analyze a disordered central spin model, where a central spin interacts equally with each spin in a periodic one dimensional random-field Heisenberg chain. If the Heisenberg chain is initially in the many-body localized (MBL) phase, we…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-11-07 Daniel Hetterich , Norman Y. Yao , Maksym Serbyn , Frank Pollmann , Björn Trauzettel

We investigate the phase transition between an ergodic and a many-body localized phase in infinite anisotropic spin-$1/2$ Heisenberg chains with binary disorder. Starting from the N\'eel state, we analyze the decay of antiferromagnetic…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-01-30 T. Enss , F. Andraschko , J. Sirker

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

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

The law of statistical physics dictates that generic closed quantum many-body systems initialized in nonequilibrium will thermalize under their own dynamics. However, the emergence of many-body localization (MBL) owing to the interplay…

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

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

The many-body localization (MBL) transition is a quantum phase transition involving highly excited eigenstates of a disordered quantum many-body Hamiltonian, which evolve from "extended/ergodic" (exhibiting extensive entanglement entropies…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-04-20 Piero Naldesi , Elisa Ercolessi , Tommaso Roscilde

We develop an approach to characterize excited states of disordered many-body systems using spatially resolved structures of entanglement. We show that the behavior of the mutual information (MI) between two parties of a many-body system…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-01-17 Javier M. Magán , Simone Paganelli , Vadim Oganesyan

The connection between entanglement dynamics and non-equilibrium statistics in isolated many-body quantum systems has been established both theoretically and experimentally. Many-Body Localization (MBL), a phenomenon where interacting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-04 Peyman Azodi , Herschel A. Rabitz

We consider disordered many-body systems with periodic time-dependent Hamiltonians in one spatial dimension. By studying the properties of the Floquet eigenstates, we identify two distinct phases: (i) a many-body localized (MBL) phase, in…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-04-16 Pedro Ponte , Z. Papić , François Huveneers , Dmitry A. Abanin

The out-of-time-ordered (OTO) correlation is a key quantity for quantifying quantum chaoticity and has been recently used in the investigation of quantum holography. Here we use it to study and characterize many-body localization (MBL). We…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-02-15 Rong-Qiang He , Zhong-Yi Lu

Many body localization (MBL) represents a unique physical phenomenon, providing a testing ground for exploring thermalization, or more precisely its failure. Here we characterize the MBL regime geometrically by the many-body quantum metric…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-05-14 W. N. Faugno , Tomoki Ozawa

We develop a mean-field theory of the metallic phase near the many-body localization (MBL) transition, using the observation that a system near the MBL transition should become an increasingly slow heat bath for its constituent parts. As a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2014-12-31 Sarang Gopalakrishnan , Rahul Nandkishore