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We study numerically the formation of entanglement clusters across the many-body localization phase transition. We observe a crossover from strong many-body entanglement in the ergodic phase to weak local correlations in the localized…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-04-24 Loïc Herviou , Soumya Bera , Jens H. Bardarson

According to the second law of thermodynamics the total entropy of a system is increased during almost any dynamical process. The positivity of the specific heat implies that the entropy increase is associated with heating. This is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-11 Luca D'Alessio , Anatoli Polkovnikov

The many-body localization (MBL) phase transition is not a conventional thermodynamic phase transition. Thus to define the phase transition one should allow the possibility of taking the limit of an infinite system in a way that is not the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-04-24 Sarang Gopalakrishnan , David A. Huse

We investigate the phase transition between an ergodic and a many-body localized phase in infinite anisotropic spin-$1/2$ Heisenberg chains with binary disorder. Starting from the N\'eel state, we analyze the decay of antiferromagnetic…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-01-30 T. Enss , F. Andraschko , J. Sirker

Quantum many-body systems with sufficiently strong disorder can exhibit a non-equilibrium phenomenon, known as the many-body localization (MBL), which is distinct from conventional thermalization. While the MBL regime has been extensively…

The many-body localization (MBL) is commonly related to a strong spatial disorder. We show that MBL may alternatively be generated by adding a temporal disorder to periodically driven many-body systems. We reach this conclusion by mapping…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-10-11 Marcin Mierzejewski , Krzysztof Giergiel , Krzysztof Sacha

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

We study the transitions between ergodic and many-body localized phases in spin systems, subject to quenched disorder, including the Heisenberg chain and the central spin model. In both cases systems with common spin lengths $1/2$ and $1$…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-05-19 John Schliemann , Joao Vitor I. Costa , Paul Wenk , J. Carlos Egues

Many-body localization for a system of bosons trapped in a one dimensional lattice is discussed. Two models that may be realized for cold atoms in optical lattices are considered. The model with a random on-site potential is compared with…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-04-24 Piotr Sierant , Jakub Zakrzewski

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

We present an introductory review of nonergodic dynamics in interacting many-body quantum systems, focusing on the phenomenon of many-body localization (MBL). We describe aspects of MBL and summarize the evidence for a crossover from the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Jakub Zakrzewski

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

We numerically study the dynamics on the ergodic side of the many-body localization transition in a periodically driven Floquet model with no global conservation laws. We describe and employ a numerical technique based on the fast…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-04-20 Talía L. M. Lezama , Soumya Bera , Jens H. Bardarson

Many-body localization (MBL) has emerged as a novel paradigm for robust ergodicity breaking in closed quantum many-body systems. However, it is not yet clear to which extent MBL survives in the presence of dissipative processes induced by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-06-21 Emanuele Levi , Markus Heyl , Igor Lesanovsky , Juan P. Garrahan

Detecting many-body localization (MBL) typically requires the calculation of high-energy eigenstates using numerical approaches. This study investigates methods that assume the use of a quantum device to detect disorder-induced…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-10-31 Kazue Kudo

Quantum systems that violate the eigenstate thermalisation hypothesis thereby falling outside the paradigm of conventional statistical mechanics are of both intellectual and practical interest. We show that such a breaking of ergodicity may…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-05-20 Sthitadhi Roy , Achilleas Lazarides

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

Many-body localized (MBL) systems lie outside the framework of statistical mechanics, as they fail to equilibrate under their own quantum dynamics. Even basic features of MBL systems such as their stability to thermal inclusions and the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-02-27 Pedro Ponte , C. R. Laumann , David A. Huse , A. Chandran

Understanding how isolated quantum many-body systems thermalize remains a central question in modern physics. We study the onset of ergodicity in a two-dimensional disordered Heisenberg Floquet model using digital quantum simulation on…

We numerically investigate 1D Bose-Hubbard chains with onsite disorder by means of exact diagonalization. A primary focus of our work is on characterizing Fock-space localization in this model from the single-particle perspective. For this…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-20 Miroslav Hopjan , Fabian Heidrich-Meisner