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In this paper, we study periodically modulated $s=1/2$ spin chain in a linear gradient potential (LP) that is generated by an external magnetic field. In the absence of the LP, the system has topological states that exhibit a magnetization…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-12-11 Takahiro Orito , Yoshihito Kuno , Ikuo Ichinose

Due to the presence of phonons, many body localization (MBL) does not occur in disordered solids, even if disorder is strong. Local conservation laws characterizing an underlying MBL phase decay due to the coupling to phonons. Here we show…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-01-02 Zala Lenarčič , Ehud Altman , Achim Rosch

We investigate the phenomenon of spatial many-body localization (MBL) through pairwise correlation measures based on one and two-point correlation functions. The system considered is the Heisenberg spin-1/2 chain with exchange interaction…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-07-26 Jaime L. C. da C. Filho , Andreia Saguia , Lea F. Santos , Marcelo S. Sarandy

The many-body localization (MBL) proximity effect is an intriguing phenomenon where a thermal bath localizes due to the interaction with a disordered system. The interplay of thermal and non-ergodic behavior in these systems gives rise to a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-08-16 Pietro Brighi , Marko Ljubotina , Dmitry A. Abanin , Maksym Serbyn

Understanding how the interaction range and various types of disorder affect the level statistics of many-body quantum systems and lead to the emergence of many-body localization (MBL) is a challenging open frontier. We study the level…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-17 Vengatesan Ganapathy , Pranay Patil , Ajit C. Balram

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

This paper addresses the so-called inverse problem which consists in searching for (possibly multiple) parent target Hamiltonian(s), given a single quantum state as input. Starting from $\Psi_0$, an eigenstate of a given local Hamiltonian…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-10-09 Maxime Dupont , Nicolas Macé , Nicolas Laflorencie

We consider the random-field Heisenberg model, a paradigmatic model for many-body localization (MBL), and add a Markovian dephasing bath coupled to the Anderson orbitals of the model's non-interacting limit. We map this system to a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-12-15 Kai Klocke , Christopher David White , Michael Buchhold

We study the phenomenon of many-body localization (MBL) in an interacting system subjected to a combined DC as well as a square wave AC electric field. First, the condition for the dynamical localization, coherent destruction of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-09-02 Devendra Singh Bhakuni , Ritu Nehra , Auditya Sharma

Stark Many-Body Localization (MBL) is a phenomenon observed in quantum systems in the absence of disorder, where the presence of a linear potential, known as the Stark field, causes the localization. Our study aims to provide novel insight…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-01-22 Chung Po Ching

Many-body localisation in interacting quantum systems can be cast as a disordered hopping problem on the underlying Fock-space graph. A crucial feature of the effective Fock-space disorder is that the Fock-space site energies are strongly…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-12-29 Sthitadhi Roy , David E. Logan

We prove the existence of extensive many-body Hamiltonians with few-body interactions and a many-body mobility edge: all eigenstates below a nonzero energy density are localized in an exponentially small fraction of "energetically allowed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-09-24 Chao Yin , Rahul Nandkishore , Andrew Lucas

Many-body localization (MBL), characterized by the absence of thermalization and the violation of conventional thermodynamics, has elicited much interest both as a fundamental physical phenomenon and for practical applications in quantum…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-12-17 Pai Peng , Zeyang Li , Haoxiong Yan , Ken Xuan Wei , Paola Cappellaro

A prime characterization of many-body localized (MBL) systems is the entanglement of their eigenstates; in contrast to the typical ergodic phase whose eigenstates are volume law, MBL eigenstates obey an area law. In this work, we show that…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-09-12 Xiongjie Yu , Di Luo , Bryan K. Clark

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

We report results of a study of (integer) quantum Hall transitions in a single or multiple Landau levels for non-interacting electrons in disordered two-dimensional systems, obtained by projecting a tight-binding Hamiltonian to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. N. Bhatt , Xin Wan

We propose a new approach to probing ergodicity and its breakdown in quantum many-body systems based on their response to a local perturbation. We study the distribution of matrix elements of a local operator between the system's…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-12-25 Maksym Serbyn , Z. Papić , Dmitry A. Abanin

We present a fully analytical description of a many body localization (MBL) transition in a microscopically defined model. Its Hamiltonian is the sum of one- and two-body operators, where both contributions obey a maximum-entropy principle…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-01-13 Felipe Monteiro , Tobias Micklitz , Masaki Tezuka , Alexander Altland

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

We observe the onset of non-ergodicity from ballistic propagation of a two-body bound state in an interacting discrete-time quantum walk (DTQW) due to time-dependent disorder in the interaction. The effect of the disorder on the two-body…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 L. A. Toikka