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Systems of strongly interacting dipoles offer an attractive platform to study many-body localized phases, owing to their long coherence times and strong interactions. We explore conditions under which such localized phases persist in the…

We address the critical properties of the many-body localization (MBL) phase transition in one-dimensional systems subject to spatially correlated disorder. We consider a general family of disorder models, parameterized by how strong the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-10-18 Zhengyan Darius Shi , Vedika Khemani , Romain Vasseur , Sarang Gopalakrishnan

Considering ultracold atoms in optical lattices, we propose experimental protocols to study many-body localization (MBL) length and criticality in quench dynamics. Through numerical simulations with exact diagonalization, we show that in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-03-30 Xuefei Guo , Xiaopeng Li

Isolated quantum systems typically follow the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis, but there are exceptions, such as many-body localized (MBL) systems and quantum many-body scars. Here, we present the study of a weak violation of MBL due…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-12-02 Michael Iversen , N. S. Srivatsa , Anne E. B. Nielsen

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

Dynamically localized states in quantum many-body systems are fundamentally important in understanding quantum thermalization and have applications in quantum information processing. Here we explore many-body dynamical localization (MBDL)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-27 Ling-Zhi Tang , Dan-Wei Zhang , Hai-Feng Yu , Z. D. Wang

This comment is dedicated to the investigation of many-body localization in a quantum Ising model with long-range power law interactions, $r^{-\alpha}$, relevant for a variety of systems ranging from electrons in Anderson insulators to spin…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-12-06 Andrii O. Maksymov , Noah Rahman , Eliot Kapit , Alexander L. Burin

In this letter we investigate the possibility to attain strongly confined atomic localization using interacting Rydberg atoms in a Coherent Population Trapping (CPT) ladder configuration, where a standing-wave (SW) is used as a coupling…

Recently it has been suggested that many-body localization (MBL) can occur in translation-invariant systems, and candidate 1D models have been proposed. We find that such models, in contrast to MBL systems with quenched disorder, typically…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-08 Z. Papic , E. M. Stoudenmire , Dmitry A. Abanin

We consider a one-dimensional quantum many-body system and investigate how the interplay between interaction and on-site disorder affects spatial localization and quantum correlations. The hopping amplitude is kept constant. To measure…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-12-27 Frieda Dukesz , Marina Zilbergerts , Lea F. Santos

We observe the emergence of a disorder-induced insulating state in a strongly interacting atomic Fermi gas trapped in an optical lattice. This closed quantum system free of a thermal reservoir realizes the disordered Fermi-Hubbard model,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-03-05 S. S. Kondov , W. R. McGehee , W. Xu , B. DeMarco

Strongly disordered systems in the many-body localized (MBL) phase can exhibit ground state order in highly excited eigenstates. The interplay between localization, symmetry, and topology has led to the characterization of a broad landscape…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-03-17 Rahul Sahay , Francisco Machado , Bingtian Ye , Chris R. Laumann , Norman Y. Yao

The mechanisms by which isolated interacting quantum systems evade thermalization extend beyond disorder-induced many-body localization, encompassing a growing class of interaction-driven phenomena. We investigate a spin-1/2 ladder with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-17 Hanieh Najafzadeh , Abdollah Langari

Many-body localized (MBL) phases of disordered quantum many-particle systems have a number of unique properties, including failure to act as a thermal bath and protection of quantum coherence. Studying MBL is complicated by the effects of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-01-03 Michael Sonner , Alessio Lerose , Dmitry A. Abanin

Atom-waveguide interface mediates significant and long-range light-matter interactions through the guided modes. In this one-dimensional system, we theoretically investigate the excitation localization of multiple atomic excitations under…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-25 H. H. Jen

We introduce novel characterizations for many-body phase transitions between delocalized and localized phases based on the system's sensitivity to boundary conditions. In particular, we change boundary conditions from periodic to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-01-27 Mohammad Pouranvari , Shiuan-Fan Liou

While many studies point towards the existence of many-body localization (MBL) in one dimension, the fate of higher-dimensional strongly disordered systems is a topic of current debate. The latest experiments as well as several recent…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-05-13 Joey Li , Amos Chan , Thorsten B. Wahl

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…

Many-body effects in confined quantum systems pose a challenging problem due to the simultaneous presence of particle-particle interactions and spatial inhomogeneity. Here we investigate universal properties of strongly confined particles…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 K. Capelle , M. Borgh , K. Karkkainen , S. M. Reimann

Charge transport in crystalline organic semiconductors is intrinsically limited by the presence of large thermal molecular motions, which are a direct consequence of the weak van der Waals inter-molecular interactions. These lead to an…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-06-18 S. Fratini , D. Mayou , S. Ciuchi