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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

We analyze signatures of the dynamical quantum phase transitions in physical observables. In particular, we show that both the expectation value and various out of time order correlation functions of the finite length product or string…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-05-19 Souvik Bandyopadhyay , Anatoli Polkovnikov , Amit Dutta

Information scrambling refers to the phenomenon in which local quantum information in a many-body system becomes dispersed throughout the entire system under unitary evolution. It has been extensively studied in closed quantum systems,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-17 Haolin Jiang , Pengfei Zhang

We consider isolated quantum systems with all of their many-body eigenstates localized. We define a sense in which such systems are integrable, and discuss a method for finding their localized conserved quantum numbers ("constants of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-04-07 David A. Huse , Vadim Oganesyan

The dynamics of entanglement has recently been realized as a useful probe in studying ergodicity and its breakdown in quantum many-body systems. In this paper, we study theoretically the growth of entanglement in quantum many-body systems…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-03-02 Wen Wei Ho , Dmitry A. Abanin

Time evolution operator in quantum mechanics can be changed into a statistical operator by a Wick rotation. This strict relation between statistical mechanics and quantum evolution can reveal deep results when the thermodynamic limit is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-06-06 Marco Frasca

We investigate the phenomenon of spacetime-localized response in a quantum critical spin system, with particular attention to how it depends on the spatial profile and operator content of the applied perturbation, as well as its robustness…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-03 Daichi Imagawa , Keiju Murata , Daisuke Yamamoto

We study the operator growth in open quantum systems with dephasing dissipation terms, extending the Krylov complexity formalism of Phys. Rev. X 9, 041017. Our results are based on the study of the dissipative $q$-body Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-10 Budhaditya Bhattacharjee , Xiangyu Cao , Pratik Nandy , Tanay Pathak

We derive an exact equation of motion for the reduced density matrices of individual subsystems of quantum many-body systems of any lattice dimension and arbitrary system size. Our projection operator based theory yields a highly efficient…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-06-13 Peter Degenfeld-Schonburg , Michael J. Hartmann

Confinement of excitations induces quasilocalized dynamics in disorder-free isolated quantum many-body systems in one spatial dimension. This occurrence is signalled by severe suppression of quantum correlation spreading and of entanglement…

Interacting quantum many-body systems are usually expected to thermalise, in the sense that the evolution of local expectation values approach a stationary value resembling a thermal ensemble. This intuition is notably contradicted in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-09 M. Friesdorf , A. H. Werner , M. Goihl , J. Eisert , W. Brown

The spreading of entanglement in out-of-equilibrium quantum systems is currently at the centre of intense interdisciplinary research efforts involving communities with interests ranging from holography to quantum information. Here we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-05-21 Bruno Bertini , Pavel Kos , Tomaz Prosen

Thermalization of chaotic quantum many-body systems under unitary time evolution is related to the growth in complexity of initially simple Heisenberg operators. Operator growth is a manifestation of information scrambling and can be…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-09-19 Shenglong Xu , Brian Swingle

Operator scrambling denotes the evolution of a simple operator into a complicated one (in the Heisenberg picture), which characterizes quantum chaos in many-body systems. More specifically, a simple operator evolves into a linear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-04 Xiao-Liang Qi , Emily J. Davis , Avikar Periwal , Monika Schleier-Smith

Solving short and long time dynamics of closed quantum many-body systems is one of the main challenges of both atomic and condensed matter physics. For locally interacting closed systems, the dynamics of local observables can always be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-20 Nicolas Loizeau , Berislav Buča , Dries Sels

The assumption that quantum systems relax to a stationary state in the long-time limit underpins statistical physics and much of our intuitive understanding of scientific phenomena. For isolated systems this follows from the eigenstate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-16 Berislav Buca , Joseph Tindall , Dieter Jaksch

This comment is dedicated to the investigation of many-body localization in a quantum Ising model with long-range power law interactions, $r^{-\alpha}$, relevant for a variety of systems ranging from electrons in Anderson insulators to spin…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-12-06 Andrii O. Maksymov , Noah Rahman , Eliot Kapit , Alexander L. Burin

In closed quantum systems, Krylov complexity admits a geometric description; operator growth is equivalent to Hamiltonian flow in an emergent phase space whose structure is fixed by the Lanczos coefficients. We show that this picture…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-23 Arpan Bhattacharyya , S. Shajidul Haque , Jeff Murugan , Mpho Tladi , Hendrik J. R. Van Zyl

The breakdown of Lieb-Robinson bounds in local, non-Hermitian quantum systems opens up the possibility for a rich landscape of quantum many-body phenomenology. We elucidate this by studying information scrambling and quantum chaos in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-18 Brian Barch , Namit Anand , Jeffrey Marshall , Eleanor Rieffel , Paolo Zanardi

Recent advances in quantum simulators allow direct experimental access to ensembles of pure states generated by measuring part of an isolated quantum many-body system. These projected ensembles encode fine-grained information beyond thermal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-26 Wai-Keong Mok , Tobias Haug , Wen Wei Ho , John Preskill