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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

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

The many-body localized (MBL) phase is characterized by a complete set of quasi-local integrals of motion and area-law entanglement of excited eigenstates. We study the effect of non-Abelian continuous symmetries on MBL, considering the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-07-26 Ivan V. Protopopov , Wen Wei Ho , Dmitry A. Abanin

Many-body localization (MBL) is a phase of matter that is characterized by the absence of thermalization. Dynamical generation of a large number of local quantum numbers has been identified as one key characteristic of this phase, quite…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-08-23 David Pekker , Bryan K. Clark , Vadim Oganesyan , Gil Refael

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

Chains of superconducting circuit devices provide a natural platform for studies of synthetic bosonic quantum matter. Motivated by the recent experimental progress in realizing disordered and interacting chains of superconducting transmon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-09 Tuure Orell , Alexios A. Michailidis , Maksym Serbyn , Matti Silveri

Closed generic quantum many-body systems may fail to thermalize under certain conditions even after long times, a phenomenon called many-body localization (MBL). Numerous studies support the stability of the MBL phase in strongly disordered…

We investigate the effect of ergodic inclusions in putative many-body localized systems. To this end, we consider the random field Heisenberg chain, which is many-body localized at strong disorder and we couple it to an ergodic bubble,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-07-08 Luis Colmenarez , David J. Luitz , Wojciech De Roeck

We study the ergodic properties of excited states in a model of interacting fermions in quasi-one-dimensional chains subjected to a random vector potential. In the noninteracting limit, we show that arbitrarily small values of this complex…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-11-23 Chen Cheng , Rubem Mondaini

We study the many-body localization of spin chain systems with quasiperiodic fields. We identify the lower bound for the critical disorder necessary to drive the transition between the thermal and many-body localized phase to be $W_{cl}\sim…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-08-30 Mac Lee , Thomas R. Look , D. N. Sheng , S. P. Lim

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

We explore correlations of eigenstates around the many-body localization (MBL) transition in their dependence on the energy difference (frequency) $\omega$ and disorder $W$. In addition to the genuine many-body problem, XXZ spin chain in…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-02-17 Konstantin S. Tikhonov , Alexander D. Mirlin

The Anderson transition on random graphs draws interest through its resemblance to the many-body localization (MBL) transition with similarly debated properties. In this Letter, we construct a unitary Anderson model on Small-World graphs to…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-02-25 Weitao Chen , Ignacio García-Mata , John Martin , Jiangbin Gong , Bertrand Georgeot , Gabriel Lemarié

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

Motivated by recent debates around the many-body localization (MBL) problem, and in particular its stability against systemwide resonances, we investigate long-distance spin-spin correlations across the phase diagram of the random-field XXZ…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-01-10 Jeanne Colbois , Fabien Alet , Nicolas Laflorencie

Despite tremendous theoretical efforts to understand subtleties of the many-body localization (MBL) transition, many questions remain open, in particular concerning its critical properties. Here we make the key observation that MBL in one…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-12-01 Nicolas Laflorencie , Gabriel Lemarié , Nicolas Macé

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

Spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) is crucial to the occurrence of phase transitions. Once a phase transition occurs, a quantum system presents degenerate eigenstates that lack the symmetry of the Hamiltonian. After crossing the critical…

This paper introduces Gaussian disorder, characterized by two parameters:the expected value and the standard deviation.Studying this type of disorder enhances our understanding of how many-body localization (MBL) transition is influenced by…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-11-19 Dongyan Guo , Taotao Hu , Jiameng Hong

The fate of many-body localization in long-range interacting systems is not fully settled. For instance, the phase boundary between ergodic and many-body localized regimes is still under debate. Here, we use Floquet dynamics which can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-14 Rozhin Yousefjani , Sougato Bose , Abolfazl Bayat