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We provide a pedagogical review on the calculation of highly excited eigenstates of disordered interacting quantum systems which can undergo a many-body localization (MBL) transition, using shift-invert exact diagonalization. We also…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-11-07 Francesca Pietracaprina , Nicolas Macé , David J. Luitz , Fabien Alet

Many-body localization (MBL) behavior is analyzed {in an extended Bose-Hubbard model with quasiperiodic infinite-range interactions. No additional disorder is present. Examining level statistics and entanglement entropy of eigenstates we…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-06-02 Piotr Kubala , Piotr Sierant , Giovanna Morigi , Jakub Zakrzewski

Characterizing states of matter through the lens of their ergodic properties is a fascinating new direction of research. In the quantum realm, the many-body localization (MBL) was proposed to be the paradigmatic ergodicity breaking…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-01-01 J. Šuntajs , J. Bonča , T. Prosen , L. Vidmar

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

Thermal and many-body localized phases are separated by a dynamical phase transition of a new kind. We analyze the distribution of off-diagonal matrix elements of local operators across the many-body localization transition (MBLT) in a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-09-13 Maksym Serbyn , Z. Papić , Dmitry A. Abanin

The phenomenon of many-body localised (MBL) systems has attracted significant interest in recent years, for its intriguing implications from a perspective of both condensed-matter and statistical physics: they are insulators even at…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-07-08 M. Goihl , M. Friesdorf , A. H. Werner , W. Brown , J. Eisert

We study the many-body localization transition in one-dimensional Hubbard chains using exact diagonalization and quantum chaos indicators. We also study dynamics in the delocalized (ergodic) and localized phases and discuss thermalization…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-12-18 Rubem Mondaini , Marcos Rigol

Many-body localization (MBL) addresses the absence of thermalization in interacting quantum systems, with non-ergodic high-energy eigenstates behaving as ground states, only area-law entangled. However, computing highly excited many-body…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-01-23 Maxime Dupont , Nicolas Laflorencie

We study the many-body localization (MBL) transition in an 1D exactly solvable system with long-range hopping and quasiperiodic on-site potential introduced in Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 186303 (2023). Unlike other disorder or quasiperiodic…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-01-09 Haowei Fan , Ke Huang , Xiao Li

We study many-body localization (MBL) and delocalization from the perspective of integrals of motion (IOMs). MBL can be understood phenomenologically through the existence of macroscopically many localized IOMs. However, IOMs exist for all…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-01-29 Louk Rademaker , Miguel Ortuno , Andres M. Somoza

Isolated quantum systems with quenched randomness exhibit many-body localization (MBL), wherein they do not reach local thermal equilibrium even when highly excited above their ground states. It is widely believed that individual…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-10-11 A. Chandran , A. Pal , C. R. Laumann , A. Scardicchio

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 study a canonical many-body-localized (MBL) system with power-law-correlated disorders: $s=\frac{1}{2}$ spin chain in a random magnetic field. The power-law-correlated disorder can control the critical regime between the MBL and thermal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-20 Takahiro Orito , Yoshihito Kuno , Ikuo Ichinose

Characterizing the nature of many-body localization transitions (MBLTs) and their potential critical behaviors has remained a challenging problem. In this work, we study the dynamics of the displacement, quantifying the spread of the radial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-31 Zheng-Hang Sun , Yong-Yi Wang , Jian Cui , Heng Fan , Markus Heyl

A key signature of MBL (many-body localization) is the slow rate at which information spreads. It is shown that the infinite random Heisenberg XXZ spin-$\frac12$ chain exhibits slow propagation of information (logarithmic light cone) in any…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Alexander Elgart , Abel Klein

We consider a one dimensional spin $1/2$ chain with Heisenberg interaction in a disordered parallel magnetic field. This system is known to exhibit the many body localization (MBL) transition at critical strength of disorder. We analyze the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-03-01 Canran Xu , Maxim G. Vavilov

The transition between many-body localized states and the delocalized thermal states is an eigen-state phase transition at finite energy density outside the scope of conventional quantum statistical mechanics. In this work we investigate…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-08-13 Wei Zhang , Ziqiang Wang

We propose a scaling theory for the many-body localization (MBL) phase transition in one dimension, building on the idea that it proceeds via a 'quantum avalanche'. We argue that the critical properties can be captured at a coarse-grained…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-03-27 Philipp T. Dumitrescu , Anna Goremykina , Siddharth A. Parameswaran , Maksym Serbyn , Romain Vasseur

A many-body localized (MBL) state is a new state of matter emerging in a disordered interacting system at high energy densities through a disorder driven dynamic phase transition. The nature of the phase transition and the evolution of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-07-20 S. P. Lim , D. N. Sheng

We study many-body localization (MBL) in a nearest-neighbor hopping 1D lattice with a slowly varying (SV) on-site potential $U_j = \lambda\cos(\pi\alpha j^s)$ with $0<s<1$. The corresponding non-interacting 1D lattice model is known to have…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-07-14 Zi-Jian Li , Yi-Ting Tu , Sankar Das Sarma