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Non-Hermitian many-body localization (NH MBL) has emerged as a possible scenario for stable localization in open systems, as suggested by spectral indicators identifying a putative transition for finite system sizes. In this work, we shift…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-10-20 Pietro Brighi , Marko Ljubotina , Federico Roccati , Federico Balducci

When a system thermalizes it loses all local memory of its initial conditions. This is a general feature of open systems and is well described by equilibrium statistical mechanics. Even within a closed (or reversible) quantum system, where…

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

Disordered quantum systems undergoing a many-body localization (MBL) transition fail to reach thermal equilibrium under their own dynamics. Distinguishing between asymptotically localized or delocalized dynamics based on numerical results…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-06-28 Jonas Richter , Arijeet Pal

Due to a phenomenon of many-body localization (MBL), the strong disorder may significantly slow down or even completely hinder the thermalization of quantum many-body systems. A sufficiently deep quasiperiodic potential may also inhibit…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-01-14 Pedro R. Nicácio Falcão , Adith Sai Aramthottil , Piotr Sierant , Jakub Zakrzewski

We investigate dynamical quantum phase transitions in disordered quantum many-body models that can support many-body localized phases. Employing $l$-bits formalism, we lay out the conditions for which singularities indicative of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-03-11 Jad C. Halimeh , Nikolay Yegovtsev , Victor Gurarie

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

Closed generic quantum many-body systems may fail to thermalize under certain conditions even after long times, a phenomenon called many-body localization (MBL). Numerous studies support the stability of the MBL phase in strongly disordered…

The phenomenon of Many-Body Stark Localization of bosons in tilted optical lattice is studied. Despite the fact that no disorder is necessary for Stark localization to occur, it is very similar to well known many body localization (MBL) in…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-10-01 Ruixiao Yao , Jakub Zakrzewski

We investigate the robustness of the many-body localized (MBL) phase to the quantum-avalanche instability by studying the dynamics of a localized spin chain coupled to a $T=\infty$ thermal bath through its leftmost site. By analyzing local…

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

Many-body localization (MBL) is an emergent phase in correlated quantum systems with promis- ing applications, particularly in quantum information. Here, we unveil the existence and analyse this phase in a chiral multiferroic model system.…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-08-29 S. Stagraczyński , L. Chotorlishvili , M. Schüler , M. Mierzejewski , J. Berakdar

Experiments in cold atom systems see almost identical signatures of many body localization (MBL) in both one-dimensional ($d=1$) and two-dimensional ($d=2$) systems despite the thermal avalanche hypothesis showing that the MBL phase is…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-09-28 D. C. W. Foo , N. Swain , P. Sengupta , G. Lemarié , S. Adam

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

We analyze the dynamics of an initially trapped cloud of interacting quantum particles on a lattice under a linear (Stark) potential. We reveal a dichotomy: initially trapped interacting systems possess features typical of both…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-03-25 Pedro Ribeiro , Achilleas Lazarides , Masudul Haque

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

The nature of the many-body localization (MBL) transition and even the existence of the MBL phase in random many-body quantum systems have been actively debated in recent years. In spatial dimension $d>1$, there is some consensus that the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-10-05 Utkarsh Agrawal , Romain Vasseur , Sarang Gopalakrishnan

In thermal phases, the quantum coherence of individual degrees of freedom is rapidly lost to the environment. Many-body localized (MBL) phases limit the spread of this coherence and appear promising for quantum information applications.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-31 Norman Y. Yao , Chris R. Laumann , Ashvin Vishwanath

Sufficient disorder is believed to localize static and periodically-driven interacting chains. With quasiperiodic driving by $D$ incommensurate tones, the fate of this many-body localization (MBL) is unknown. We argue that randomly…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-04-20 David M. Long , Philip J. D. Crowley , Anushya Chandran

Many-body localization (MBL) describes a quantum phase where an isolated interacting system subject to sufficient disorder displays non-ergodic behavior, evading thermal equilibrium that occurs under its own dynamics. Previously, the…