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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 study many-body localization (MBL) in a one-dimensional system of spinless fermions with a deterministic aperiodic potential in the presence of long-range interactions decaying as power-law $V_{ij}/(r_i-r_j)^\alpha$ with distance and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-02-09 Yogeshwar Prasad , Arti Garg

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

We study a quantum spin system with local bilinear interactions and without quenched disorder which seems to display characteristic signatures of a many-body localisation (MBL) transition. From direct diagonalisation of small systems, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-06-01 James M. Hickey , Sam Genway , Juan P. Garrahan

We consider spinless fermions on a finite one-dimensional lattice, interacting via nearest-neighbor repulsion and subject to a strong electric field. In the non-interacting case, due to Wannier-Stark localization, the single-particle wave…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-03-20 M. Schulz , C. A. Hooley , R. Moessner , F. Pollmann

Many-body localization (MBL) is a result of the balance between interference-based Anderson localization and many-body interactions in an ultra-high dimensional Fock space. It is usually expected that dissipation is blurring interference…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-07-25 I. Vakulchyk , I. Yusipov , M. Ivanchenko , S. Flach , S. Denisov

We propose a method for detecting many-body localization (MBL) in disordered spin systems. The method involves pulsed, coherent spin manipulations that probe the dephasing of a given spin due to its entanglement with a set of distant spins.…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2014-10-08 M. Serbyn , M. Knap , S. Gopalakrishnan , Z. Papić , N. Y. Yao , C. R. Laumann , D. A. Abanin , M. D. Lukin , E. A. Demler

In one dimension, noninteracting particles can undergo a localization-delocalization transition in a quasiperiodic potential. Recent studies have suggested that this transition transforms into a many-body localization (MBL) transition upon…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-12-09 Ranjan Modak , Subroto Mukerjee

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

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

Nonequilibrium dynamics in isolated quantum many-body systems displays a number of intriguing features, such as many-body localization (MBL) and prethermalization. Here we investigate a simple ladder system with disorder, in which various…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-23 Yang Zhao , Rajesh Narayanan , Jaeyoon Cho

We experimentally study many-body localization (MBL) with ultracold atoms in a weak one-dimensional quasiperiodic potential, which in the noninteracting limit exhibits an intermediate phase that is characterized by a mobility edge. We…

Many-body localization (MBL) addresses the absence of thermalization in interacting quantum systems, with non-ergodic high-energy eigenstates behaving as ground states, only area-law entangled. However, computing highly excited many-body…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-01-23 Maxime Dupont , Nicolas Laflorencie

Characterizing out-of-equilibrium many-body dynamics is a complex but crucial task for quantum applications and the understanding of fundamental phenomena. A central question is the role of localization in quenching quantum thermalization,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-02-20 Ken Xuan Wei , Chandrasekhar Ramanathan , Paola Cappellaro

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

We numerically explore the many body localization (MBL) transition through the lens of the {\it entanglement spectrum}. While a direct transition from localization to thermalization is believed to obtain in the thermodynamic limit (the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-11-17 Scott D. Geraedts , Nicolas Regnault , Rahul M. Nandkishore

An interacting system subjected to a strong linear potential can host a many-body localized (MBL) phase when being slightly perturbed. This so-called Wannier-Stark or `tilted-field' MBL phase inherits many properties from the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-10-15 Elisabeth Wybo , Michael Knap , Frank Pollmann

We study the real-time dynamics of a translationally invariant quantum spin chain, based on the East kinetically constrained glass model, in search for evidence of many-body localisation in the absence of disorder. Numerical simulations…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-10-07 Merlijn van Horssen , Emanuele Levi , Juan P. Garrahan

We study bulk particle transport in a Fermi-Hubbard model on an infinite-dimensional Bethe lattice, driven by a constant electric field. Previous numerical studies showed that one dimensional analogs of this system exhibit a breakdown of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-01-09 Hristiana Atanasova , André Erpenbeck , Emanuel Gull , Yevgeny Bar Lev , Guy Cohen

Disordered quantum many-body systems pose one of the central challenges in condensed matter physics and quantum information science, as their dynamics are generally intractable for classical computation. Many-body localization (MBL),…