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In contrast with Anderson localization where a genuine localization is observed in real space, the many-body localization (MBL) problem is much less understood in the Hilbert space, support of the eigenstates. In this work, using exact…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-11-06 Nicolas Macé , Fabien Alet , Nicolas Laflorencie

Many-body localization (MBL) appears to be a robust example of ergodicity breaking in many-body interacting systems. Here, we review different aspects of MBL, concentrating on various ways the disorder may be introduced into the system…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-01-15 Konrad Pawlik , Maksym Prodius , Pedro R. Nicácio Falcão , Jakub Zakrzewski

We investigate the emergence of many-body dynamical localization (MBDL) in the Fock space of an interacting two-mode bosonic system subject to periodic driving. Using a mapping to the paradigmatic kicked-top model, we analyze the interplay…

We demonstrate many-body localization (MBL) transition in a one-dimensional isotropic XY chain with a weak next-nearest-neighbor frustration in a random magnetic field. We perform finite-size exact diagonalization calculations of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-08-17 M. S. Bahovadinov , D. V. Kurlov , S. I. Matveenko , B. L. Altshuler , G. V. Shlyapnikov

Many body localization (MBL) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for understanding non-equilibrium quantum dynamics. Folklore based on perturbative arguments holds that MBL only arises in systems with short range interactions. Here we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-10-27 Rahul M. Nandkishore , S. L. Sondhi

We discuss the problem of localization in two dimensional electron systems in the quantum Hall (single Landau level) regime. After briefly summarizing the well-studied problem of Anderson localization in the non-interacting case, we…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-04-06 R. N. Bhatt , Akshay Krishna

In this work, we develop a self-consistent Hartree-Fock approach to theoretically study the far-from-equilibrium quantum dynamics of interacting fermions, and apply this approach to explore the onset of many-body localization (MBL) in these…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-12-31 Simon A. Weidinger , Sarang Gopalakrishnan , Michael Knap

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

We study the real-time dynamics of a translationally invariant quantum spin chain, based on the East kinetically constrained glass model, in search for evidence of many-body localisation in the absence of disorder. Numerical simulations…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-10-07 Merlijn van Horssen , Emanuele Levi , Juan P. Garrahan

We introduce techniques for analysing the structure of quantum states of many-body localized (MBL) spin chains by identifying correlation clusters from pairwise correlations. These techniques proceed by interpreting pairwise correlations in…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-02-16 Kévin Hémery , Frank Pollmann , Adam Smith

Many-body-localization (MBL) transitions are studied in a family of single-spin-flip spin-$\frac12$ models, including the one-dimensional (1D) chain with nearest-neighbor interactions, the quantum dot (QD) model with all-to-all pair…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-08-19 Thibault Scoquart , Igor V. Gornyi , Alexander D. Mirlin

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

Thermalization is a ubiquitous process of statistical physics, in which details of few-body observables are washed out in favor of a featureless steady state. Even in isolated quantum many-body systems, limited to reversible dynamics,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-19 W. Morong , F. Liu , P. Becker , K. S. Collins , L. Feng , A. Kyprianidis , G. Pagano , T. You , A. V. Gorshkov , C. Monroe

We analyze many body localization (MBL) in an interacting one-dimensional system with a deterministic aperiodic potential. Below the threshold value of the potential $h < h_c$, the non-interacting system has single particle mobility edges…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-09-06 Sabyasachi Nag , Arti Garg

The explorations of non-Hermiticity have been devoted to investigate the disorder-induced many-body localization (MBL). However, the sensitivity of the spatial boundary conditions and the interplay of the non-Hermitian skin effect with…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-12-09 Kuldeep Suthar , Yi-Cheng Wang , Yi-Ping Huang , H. H. Jen , Jhih-Shih You

We construct and solve a classical percolation model with a phase transition that we argue acts as a proxy for the quantum many-body localisation transition. The classical model is defined on a graph in the Fock space of a disordered,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-07-03 Sthitadhi Roy , David E. Logan , J. T. Chalker

We give an introduction into some aspects of the emerging mathematical theory of many-body localization (MBL) for disordered quantum spin chains. In particular, we discuss manifestations of MBL such as zero-velocity Lieb-Robinson bounds,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-02-15 Günter Stolz

Thermalizing quantum systems are conventionally described by statistical mechanics at equilibrium. However, not all systems fall into this category, with many body localization providing a generic mechanism for thermalization to fail in…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-05-29 Dmitry A. Abanin , Ehud Altman , Immanuel Bloch , Maksym Serbyn

The disordered XXZ model is a prototype model of the many-body localization transition (MBL). Despite numerous studies of this model, the available numerical evidence of multifractality of its eigenstates is not very conclusive due severe…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-05-22 David J. Luitz , Ivan M. Khaymovich , Yevgeny Bar Lev

In one dimension, noninteracting particles can undergo a localization-delocalization transition in a quasiperiodic potential. Recent studies have suggested that this transition transforms into a many-body localization (MBL) transition upon…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-12-09 Ranjan Modak , Subroto Mukerjee