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Thermalizing quantum systems are conventionally described by statistical mechanics at equilibrium. However, not all systems fall into this category, with many body localization providing a generic mechanism for thermalization to fail in…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-05-29 Dmitry A. Abanin , Ehud Altman , Immanuel Bloch , Maksym Serbyn

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

Ergodic quantum many-body systems undergoing unitary dynamics evolve towards increasingly entangled states characterized by an extensive scaling of entanglement entropy with system volume. At the other extreme, quantum systems repeatedly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-11 Jin Ming Koh , Shi-Ning Sun , Mario Motta , Austin J. Minnich

In recent years, the presence of local potentials has significantly enriched and diversified the entanglement patterns in monitored free fermion systems. In our approach, we employ the stochastic Schr\"odinger equation to simulate a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-09 Yu-Jun Zhao , Xuyang Huang , Yi-Rui Zhang , Han-Ze Li , Jian-Xin Zhong

We examine the interplay of interaction and disorder for a Heisenberg spin ladder system with random fields. We identify many-body localized states based on the entanglement entropy scaling, where delocalized and localized states have…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-12-09 Elliott Baygan , S. P. Lim , D. N. Sheng

Interacting many-body quantum systems and their dynamics, while fundamental to modern science and technology, are formidable to simulate and understand. However, by discovering their symmetries, conservation laws, and integrability one can…

A quantum system of particles can exist in a localized phase, exhibiting ergodicity breaking and maintaining forever a local memory of its initial conditions. We generalize this concept to a system of extended objects, such as strings and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-10-10 Michael Pretko , Rahul M. Nandkishore

In the presence of disorder, an interacting closed quantum system can undergo many-body localization (MBL) and fail to thermalize. However, over long times even weak couplings to any thermal environment will necessarily thermalize the…

Entanglement measures have emerged as one of the versatile probes to diagnose quantum phases and their transitions. Universal features in them expand their applicability to a range of systems, including those with quenched disorder. In this…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-07-18 Subrata Pachhal , Adhip Agarwala

We propose to observe many-body localization in cold atomic gases by realizing a Bose-Hubbard chain with binary disorder and studying its non-equilibrium dynamics. In particular, we show that measuring the difference in occupation between…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2014-11-19 F. Andraschko , T. Enss , J. Sirker

We investigate the effect of repeated measurement for quantum dynamics of the suppressed systems which classical counterparts exhibit chaos. The essential feature of such systems is the quantum localization phenomena strongly limiting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 B. Kaulakys

Estimating global properties of many-body quantum systems such as entropy or bipartite entanglement is a notoriously difficult task, typically requiring a number of measurements or classical post-processing resources growing exponentially…

The interplay between interactions and quenched disorder can result in rich dynamical quantum phenomena far from equilibrium, particularly when many-body localization prevents the system from full thermalization. With the aim of tackling…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-02-14 S. J. Thomson , M. Schiró

In the study of the thermalization of closed quantum systems, the role of kinetic constraints on the temporal dynamics and the eventual thermalization is attracting significant interest. Kinetic constraints typically lead to long-lived…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-03-29 Karl Royen , Suman Mondal , Frank Pollmann , Fabian Heidrich-Meisner

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

Dimensionless ratios characterizing many-body systems are a powerful tool to reveal the main universal quantities involved. The recently-introduced localisation parameter allow to study the occurrence of crystal, clusterisation, and quantum…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-06-05 J. -P. Ebran , E. Khan

We reinvestigate the behavior of the conductivity of several disordered quantum lattice models at infinite temperature using exact diagonalization. Contrary to the conclusion drawn in a recent investigation of similar quantities in…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-05-29 Timothy C. Berkelbach , David R. Reichman

We study the statistical properties of a single two-level system (qubit) subject to repetitive ancilla-based measurements. This setup is a fundamental minimal model for exploring the intricate interplay between the unitary dynamics of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-26 Paul Pöpperl , Igor V. Gornyi , David B. Saakian , Oleg M. Yevtushenko

We demonstrate that, in a many-particle system, particles can be strongly confined to their sites. The localization is obtained by constructing a sequence of on-site energies that efficiently suppresses resonant hopping. The time during…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. I. Dykman , F. M. Izrailev , L. F. Santos , M. Shapiro

The interplay of interactions and strong disorder can lead to an exotic quantum many-body localized (MBL) phase. Beyond the absence of transport, the MBL phase has distinctive signatures, such as slow dephasing and logarithmic entanglement…