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We construct a solvable spin chain model of many-body localization (MBL) with a tunable mobility edge. This simple model not only demonstrates analytically the existence of mobility edges in interacting one-dimensional (1D) disordered…

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We explore the Fock-space structure of eigenstates across the many-body localisation (MBL) transition in a disordered, interacting quantum spin-1/2 chain. Eigenstate expectation values of spatially local observables, which distinguish an…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-11-04 Sthitadhi Roy , David E. Logan

In this paper, we theoretically investigate the many-body localization (MBL) properties of one-dimensional anisotropic spin-1/2 chains by using the exact matrix diagonalization method. Starting from the Ising spin-1/2 chain, we introduce…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-04-15 Taotao Hu , Yuting Li , Jiameng Hong , Xiaodan Li , Dongyan Guo , Kangning Chen

We present a decentralized ergodic control policy for time-varying area coverage problems for multiple agents with nonlinear dynamics. Ergodic control allows us to specify distributions as objectives for area coverage problems for nonlinear…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Ian Abraham , Todd D. Murphey

Many-body localized systems in which interactions and disorder come together defy the expectations of quantum statistical mechanics: In contrast to ergodic systems, they do not thermalize when undergoing nonequilibrium dynamics. What is…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-01-29 K. S. C. Decker , D. M. Kennes , J. Eisert , C. Karrasch

Many-body localization (MBL) is an intriguing physical phenomenon that arises from the interplay of interaction and disorder, allowing quantum systems to prevent thermalization. In this study, we investigate the MBL properties of the fully…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-02-20 Jiameng Hong , Taotao Hu

We characterise and study dynamical localisation of a finite interacting quantum many-body system. We present explicit bounds on the disorder strength required for the onset of localisation of the dynamics of arbitrary ensemble of sites of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-02-07 P. -L. Giscard , Z. Choo , M. T. Mitchison , J. J. Mendoza-Arenas , D. Jaksch

Ergodic Optimization is the process of finding invariant probability measures that maximize the integral of a given function. It has been conjectured that "most" functions are optimized by measures supported on a periodic orbit, and it has…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Anthony Quas , Jason Siefken

In this study, an ergodic environment exploration problem is introduced for a centralized multi-agent system. Given the reference distribution represented by the Mixture of Gaussian (MoG), the ergodicity is achieved when the time-averaged…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-30 Rabiul Hasan Kabir , Kooktae Lee , Geronimo Macias

We study high temperature spin transport in a disordered Heisenberg chain in the ergodic regime when bulk dephasing is present. We find that while dephasing always renders the transport diffusive, there is nonetheless a remnant of the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-07-19 Marko Žnidarič , Juan Jose Mendoza-Arenas , Stephen R. Clark , John Goold

The many-body localization transition is a dynamical quantum phase transition between a localized and an extended phase. We study this transition in the XXZ model with disordered magnetic field and focus on the time evolution following a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-02-24 Rajeev Singh , Jens H. Bardarson , Frank Pollmann

Within the broad theme of understanding the dynamics of disordered quantum many-body systems, one of the simplest questions one can ask is: given an initial state, how does it evolve in time on the associated Fock-space graph, in terms of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-04-12 Isabel Creed , David E. Logan , Sthitadhi Roy

Quantum emulators, owing to their large degree of tunability and control, allow the observation of fine aspects of closed quantum many-body systems, as either the regime where thermalization takes place or when it is halted by the presence…

Dynamical Lie-algebraic method for the construction of local quantum invariants of motion in non-integrable many-body systems is proposed and applied to a simple but generic toy model, namely an infinite kicked $t-V$ chain of spinless…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Tomaz Prosen

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…

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We present a detailed analysis of the length- and timescales needed to approach the critical region of MBL from the delocalised phase, studying both eigenstates and the time evolution of an initial state. For the eigenstates we show that in…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-02-10 Rajat K. Panda , Antonello Scardicchio , Maximilian Schulz , Scott R. Taylor , Marko Žnidarič

We consider disordered many-body systems with periodic time-dependent Hamiltonians in one spatial dimension. By studying the properties of the Floquet eigenstates, we identify two distinct phases: (i) a many-body localized (MBL) phase, in…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-04-16 Pedro Ponte , Z. Papić , François Huveneers , Dmitry A. Abanin

The entanglement spectrum of the reduced density matrix contains information beyond the von Neumann entropy and provides unique insights into exotic orders or critical behavior of quantum systems. Here, we show that strongly disordered…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-10-14 Maksym Serbyn , Alexios A. Michailidis , Dmitry A. Abanin , Z. Papić

In systems where interactions couple a central degree of freedom and a bath, one would expect signatures of the bath's phase to be reflected in the dynamics of the central degree of freedom. This has been recently explored in connection…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-04-07 Nathan Ng , Sebastian Wenderoth , Rajagopala Reddy Seelam , Eran Rabani , Hans-Dieter Meyer , Michael Thoss , Michael Kolodrubetz

Many-body localization is a profound phase of matter affecting the entire spectrum which emerges in the presence of disorder in interacting many-body systems. Recently, the stability of many-body localization has been challenged by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Muhammad Sajid , Rozhin Yousefjani , Abolfazl Bayat