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We present an introductory review of nonergodic dynamics in interacting many-body quantum systems, focusing on the phenomenon of many-body localization (MBL). We describe aspects of MBL and summarize the evidence for a crossover from the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Jakub Zakrzewski

We study the many-body localization (MBL) properties of a chain of interacting fermions subject to a quasiperiodic potential such that the non-interacting chain is always delocalized and displays multifractality. Contrary to naive…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-05-01 Nicolas Macé , Nicolas Laflorencie , Fabien Alet

In this work we study the many-body localization (MBL) transition and relate it to the eigenstate structure in the Fock space. Besides the standard entanglement and multifractal probes, we introduce the radial probability distribution of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-07-14 Giuseppe De Tomasi , Ivan M. Khaymovich , Frank Pollmann , Simone Warzel

Many-body localization (MBL) transition emerges at strong disorder in interacting systems, separating chaotic and reversible dynamics. Although the existence of MBL transition within the macroscopic limit in spin chains with a short-range…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-02-06 Illia Lukin , Andrii Sotnikov , Alexander L. Burin

Isolated quantum systems at strong disorder can display many-body localization (MBL), a remarkable phenomena characterized by an absence of conduction even at finite temperatures. As the ratio of interactions to disorder is increased, one…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2014-05-08 Tarun Grover

Many-body localized (MBL) systems do not approach thermal equilibrium under their intrinsic dynamics; MBL and conventional thermalizing systems form distinct dynamical phases of matter, separated by a phase transition at which equilibrium…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-05-25 Sarang Gopalakrishnan , S. A. Parameswaran

At low energy, the dynamics of excitations of many physical systems are locally constrained. Examples include frustrated anti-ferromagnets, fractional quantum Hall fluids and Rydberg atoms in the blockaded regime. Can such locally…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-08-30 Chun Chen , Fiona Burnell , Anushya Chandran

We construct an analytic theory of many-body localization (MBL) in random spin chains. The approach is based on a first quantized perspective in which MBL is understood as a localization phenomenon on the high dimensional lattice defined by…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-03-29 Alexander Altland , Tobias Micklitz

Many-body localization (MBL) is an emergent phase in correlated quantum systems with promis- ing applications, particularly in quantum information. Here, we unveil the existence and analyse this phase in a chiral multiferroic model system.…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-08-29 S. Stagraczyński , L. Chotorlishvili , M. Schüler , M. Mierzejewski , J. Berakdar

Statistical mechanics provides a framework for describing the physics of large, complex many-body systems using only a few macroscopic parameters to determine the state of the system. For isolated quantum many-body systems, such a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-02-11 Piotr Sierant , Maciej Lewenstein , Antonello Scardicchio , Lev Vidmar , Jakub Zakrzewski

The disordered many-body systems can undergo a transition from the extended ensemble to a localized ensemble, known as many-body localization (MBL), which has been intensively explored in recent years. Nevertheless, the relation between…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-10-17 Hong-Ze Xu , Shun-Yao Zhang , Ze-Yu Rao , Zhengwei Zhou , Guang-Can Guo , Ming Gong

We review recent results on many-body localization for two explicitly analyzable models of many-body quantum systems, the XY spin chain in transversal magnetic field as well as interacting systems of harmonic quantum oscillators. In both…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-01-03 Robert Sims , Gunter Stolz

Many-body localization (MBL) features are studied here for a large spin chain model with long range interactions. The model corresponds to cold atoms placed inside a cavity and driven by an external laser field with long range interactions…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-02-28 Titas Chanda , Jakub Zakrzewski

Nonequilibrium dynamics in isolated quantum many-body systems displays a number of intriguing features, such as many-body localization (MBL) and prethermalization. Here we investigate a simple ladder system with disorder, in which various…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-23 Yang Zhao , Rajesh Narayanan , Jaeyoon Cho

We study the $t{-}V$ disordered spinless fermionic chain in the strong coupling regime, $t/V\rightarrow 0$. Strong interactions highly hinder the dynamics of the model, fragmenting its Hilbert space into exponentially many blocks in system…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-01-01 Giuseppe De Tomasi , Daniel Hetterich , Pablo Sala , Frank Pollmann

We probe the existence of a many-body localized phase (MBL-phase) in a spinless fermionic Hubbard chain with algebraically localized single-particle states, by investigating both static and dynamical properties of the system. This MBL-phase…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-02-11 Giuseppe De Tomasi

Recent studies on disorder-induced many-body localization (MBL) in non-Hermitian quantum systems have attracted great interest. However, the non-Hermitian disorder-free MBL still needs to be clarified. We consider a one-dimensional…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-11-27 Jinghu Liu , Zhihao Xu

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

While many studies point towards the existence of many-body localization (MBL) in one dimension, the fate of higher-dimensional strongly disordered systems is a topic of current debate. The latest experiments as well as several recent…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-05-13 Joey Li , Amos Chan , Thorsten B. Wahl

Recent numerical and experimental works have revealed a disorder-free many-body localization (MBL) in an interacting system subjecting to a linear potential, known as the Stark MBL. The conventional MBL, induced by disorder, has been widely…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-10 Yong-Yi Wang , Zheng-Hang Sun , Heng Fan