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Understanding the realization of thermal equilibrium through the thermalization process in a many-body system is a fundamental and complex scientific question, bridging thermodynamics and classical dynamics and connecting to a host of…

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We introduce a method to efficiently study the dynamical properties of many-body localized systems in the regime of strong disorder and weak interactions. Our method reproduces qualitatively and quantitatively the real-time evolution with a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-07-03 Giuseppe De Tomasi , Frank Pollmann , Markus Heyl

The many-body localized (MBL) phase is characterized by a complete set of quasi-local integrals of motion and area-law entanglement of excited eigenstates. We study the effect of non-Abelian continuous symmetries on MBL, considering the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-07-26 Ivan V. Protopopov , Wen Wei Ho , Dmitry A. Abanin

We develop a mean-field theory of the metallic phase near the many-body localization (MBL) transition, using the observation that a system near the MBL transition should become an increasingly slow heat bath for its constituent parts. As a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2014-12-31 Sarang Gopalakrishnan , Rahul Nandkishore

We derive a necessary and sufficient condition for the thermalization of a local observable in a closed quantum system which offers an alternative explanation, independent of the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis, for the thermalization…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-04-11 J. Sirker , N. P. Konstantinidis , F. Andraschko , N. Sedlmayr

We examine the standard model of many-body localization (MBL), i.e., the disordered chain of interacting spinless fermions, by representing it as the network in the many-body (MB) basis of noninteracting localized Anderson states. By…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-02-04 P. Prelovšek , M. Mierzejewski , J. Krsnik , O. S. Barišić

We present a study of thermalisation of a small isolated Hubbard lattice cluster prepared in a pure state with a well-defined energy. We examine how a two-site subsystem of the lattice thermalises with the rest of the system as its…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-06-14 S. Genway , A. F. Ho , D. K. K. Lee

Using holographic duality, we investigate thermalization process when two finite-size quantum critical systems are brought into thermal contact along a perfectly transmitting interface. Through real-time simulations of gravitational…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-09 Li Li , Yan Liu , Hao-Tian Sun

We theoretically investigate the many-body localization phase transition in a one-dimensional Ising spin chain with random long-range spin-spin interactions, $V_{ij}\propto\left|i-j\right|^{-\alpha}$, where the exponent of the interaction…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-12-28 Haoyuan Li , Jia Wang , Xia-Ji Liu , Hui Hu

Understanding how closed quantum systems dynamically approach thermal equilibrium presents a major unresolved problem in statistical physics. Generically, non-integrable quantum systems are expected to thermalize as they comply with the…

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

Despite enormous efforts devoted to the study of the many-body localization (MBL) phenomenon, the nature of the high-energy behavior of the Heisenberg spin chain in a strong random magnetic field is lacking consensus. Here, we take a step…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-09-17 Jeanne Colbois , Fabien Alet , Nicolas Laflorencie

Models of many-body localization (MBL) exhibit slow numerical drifts towards delocalization with increasing system size, for which no satisfactory theory exists. Numerics indicates that these drifts are driven by the proliferation of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-05-08 Carlo Vanoni , David M. Long , Anushya Chandran

It is widely believed that many-body localisation in one dimension is fragile and can be easily destroyed by thermal inclusions, however there are still many open questions regarding the stability of the localised phase and under what…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-03-30 S. J. Thomson

The many-body mobility edge (MBME) in energy, which separates thermal states from many-body localization (MBL) states, is a critical yet controversial concept in MBL physics. Here we examine the quasiperiodic $t_1-t_2$ model that features a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-05-23 Yutao Hu , Chao Yang , Yucheng Wang

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

Equilibrium properties of many-body systems with a large number of degrees of freedom are generally expected to be described by statistical mechanics. Such expectations are closely tied to the observation of thermalization, as manifested…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-08-08 Yulong Qiao , Frank Großmann , Peter Schlagheck , Gabriel M. Lando

We present here the results obtained during my PhD work. We report the study of the many body localization transition in a spin chain and the breaking of ergodicity measured in terms of return probability in a state evolution. Moreover, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-02-06 Andrea De Luca

We consider the random-field Heisenberg model, a paradigmatic model for many-body localization (MBL), and add a Markovian dephasing bath coupled to the Anderson orbitals of the model's non-interacting limit. We map this system to a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-12-15 Kai Klocke , Christopher David White , Michael Buchhold

The principles of ergodicity and thermalization constitute the foundation of statistical mechanics, positing that a many-body system progressively loses its local information as it evolves. Nevertheless, these principles can be disrupted…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-09 M. G. Sousa , Rafael F. P. Costa , G. D. de Moraes Neto , E. Vernek