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Discrete time crystal (DTC) has recently attracted increasing attention, but most DTC models and their properties are only revealed after disorder average. In this Letter, we propose a simple disorder-free periodically driven model that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-03-29 Shuo Liu , Shi-Xin Zhang , Chang-Yu Hsieh , Shengyu Zhang , Hong Yao

Isolated quantum systems with quenched randomness exhibit many-body localization (MBL), wherein they do not reach local thermal equilibrium even when highly excited above their ground states. It is widely believed that individual…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-10-11 A. Chandran , A. Pal , C. R. Laumann , A. Scardicchio

An interacting quantum system that is subject to disorder may cease to thermalize due to localization of its constituents, thereby marking the breakdown of thermodynamics. The key to our understanding of this phenomenon lies in the system's…

We study the many-body localization (MBL) properties of the Heisenberg XXZ spin-$\frac12$ chain in a random magnetic field. We prove that the system exhibits localization in any given energy interval at the bottom of the spectrum in a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-01-08 Alexander Elgart , Abel Klein

In this paper, we theoretically investigate the many-body localization properties of one-dimensional Ising spin-1 chains by using the methods of exact matrix diagonalization. We compare it with the MBL properties of the Ising spin-1/2…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-05-06 Taotao Hu , Yining Zhang , Hang Ren , Yiwen Gao , Xiaodan Li , Jiameng Hong , Yuting Li

Many body localization (MBL) is a phenomena that allows for the preservation of quantum information for long times. We study a variation of the disordered-Heisenberg model, which is known to exhibit an MBL phase [5][6], known as the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-27 Nicholas Carrillo

We present a numerical study of the many-body localization (MBL) phenomenon in the high-temperature limit within an anisotropic Heisenberg model with random local fields. Taking the dynamical spin conductivity $\sigma(\omega)$ as the test…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-08-01 Osor S. Barišić , Jure Kokalj , Ivan Balog , Peter Prelovšek

In this paper we propose a new perspective to analyze the many-body localization (MBL) transition when recast in terms of a single-particle tight-binding model in the space of many-body configurations. We compute the distribution of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-05 Marco Tarzia

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

Isolated interacting quantum systems generally thermalize, yet there are several examples for the breakdown of ergodicity, such as many-body localization and quantum scars. Recently, ergodicity breaking has been observed in systems…

Many-body localization (MBL) is a novel prototype of ergodicity breaking due to the emergence of local integrals of motion (LIOMs) in a disordered interacting quantum system. To better understand the role played by the existence of such…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-08-10 S. Adami , M. Amini , M. Soltani

We present a review of recent theoretical results concerning the many-body localization (MBL) phenomenon, with the emphasis on dynamical density correlations and transport quantities. They are shown to be closely related, providing a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-04-13 P. Prelovšek , M. Mierzejewski , O. Barišić , J. Herbrych

Many-body localization (MBL) is an example of a dynamical phase of matter that avoids thermalization. While the MBL phase is robust to weak local perturbations, the fate of an MBL system coupled to a thermalizing quantum system that…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-07-13 Pietro Brighi , Alexios A. Michailidis , Dmitry A. Abanin , Maksym Serbyn

Within the standard model of many-body localization, i.e., the disordered chain of spinless fermions, we investigate how the interaction affects the many-body states in the basis of noninteracting localized Anderson states. From this…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-03-14 Peter Prelovšek , Osor S. Barišić , Marcin Mierzejewski

The exploration of large-scale many-body phenomena in quantum materials has produced many important experimental discoveries, including novel states of entanglement, topology and quantum order as found for example in quantum spin ices,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-05-01 John Sous , Edward Grant

We examine the many-body localization (MBL) phase transition in one-dimensional quantum systems with quenched randomness and short-range interactions. Following recent works, we use a strong-randomness renormalization group (RG) approach…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-09-22 Alan Morningstar , David A. Huse , John Z. Imbrie

We numerically study the entanglement dynamics of free fermions on a cubic lattice with potential disorder following a quantum quench. We focus, in particular, on the metal-insulator transition at a critical disorder strength and compare…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-11-20 Y. Zhao , D. Feng , Y. Hu , S. Guo , J. Sirker

In this work, we investigate the localization properties of a paradigmatic model, coupled to a monitoring environment and possessing a many-body localized (MBL) phase. We focus on the post-selected no-click limit with quench random rates,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-05-14 Giuseppe De Tomasi , Ivan M. Khaymovich

Localization in interacting systems caused by disorder, known as many-body localization (MBL), has attracted a lot of attention in recent years. Most systems studied in this context also show single-particle localization, and the question…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-08-02 Rajeev Singh , Efrat Shimshoni

We demonstrate many-body localization (MBL) transition in a one-dimensional isotropic XY chain with a weak next-nearest-neighbor frustration in a random magnetic field. We perform finite-size exact diagonalization calculations of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-08-17 M. S. Bahovadinov , D. V. Kurlov , S. I. Matveenko , B. L. Altshuler , G. V. Shlyapnikov