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The explorations of non-Hermiticity have been devoted to investigate the disorder-induced many-body localization (MBL). However, the sensitivity of the spatial boundary conditions and the interplay of the non-Hermitian skin effect with…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-12-09 Kuldeep Suthar , Yi-Cheng Wang , Yi-Ping Huang , H. H. Jen , Jhih-Shih You

We investigate the phase transitions from chaotic to nonchaotic dynamics in a quantum spin chain with a local non-Hermitian disorder, which can be realized with a Rydberg atom array setting. As the disorder strength increases, the emergence…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-03 Yijia Zhou , Wei Xia , Lin Li , Weibin Li

Statistical mechanics provides a framework for describing the physics of large, complex many-body systems using only a few macroscopic parameters to determine the state of the system. For isolated quantum many-body systems, such a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-02-11 Piotr Sierant , Maciej Lewenstein , Antonello Scardicchio , Lev Vidmar , Jakub Zakrzewski

We present a framework in which the transition between a many-body localised (MBL) phase and an ergodic one is symmetry breaking. We consider random Floquet spin chains, expressing their averaged spectral form factor (SFF) as a function of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-10-26 S. J. Garratt , J. T. Chalker

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

We study a model of interacting fermions in one dimension subject to random, uncorrelated onsite disorder. The model realizes an interaction-driven quantum phase transition between an ergodic and a many-body localized phase (MBL). We…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-07-19 Soumya Bera , Thomas Martynec , Henning Schomerus , Fabian Heidrich-Meisner , Jens H. Bardarson

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

We present an introductory review of nonergodic dynamics in interacting many-body quantum systems, focusing on the phenomenon of many-body localization (MBL). We describe aspects of MBL and summarize the evidence for a crossover from the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Jakub Zakrzewski

We study the transitions between ergodic and many-body localized phases in spin systems, subject to quenched disorder, including the Heisenberg chain and the central spin model. In both cases systems with common spin lengths $1/2$ and $1$…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-05-19 John Schliemann , Joao Vitor I. Costa , Paul Wenk , J. Carlos Egues

Ergodic quantum many-body systems satisfy the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH). However, strong disorder can destroy ergodicity through many-body localization (MBL) -- at least in one dimensional systems -- leading to a clear…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-08-18 Luis Colmenarez , Paul A. McClarty , Masudul Haque , David J. Luitz

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…

We treat the disordered Heisenberg model in 1D as the standard model of many-body localization (MBL). Two new and independent order parameters stemming solely from the half-chain von Neumann entanglement entropy $S_{\textrm{vN}}$ are…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-12-04 Jie Chen , Chun Chen , Xiaoqun Wang

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

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 propose a new approach to probing ergodicity and its breakdown in quantum many-body systems based on their response to a local perturbation. We study the distribution of matrix elements of a local operator between the system's…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-12-25 Maksym Serbyn , Z. Papić , Dmitry A. Abanin

Characterizing states of matter through the lens of their ergodic properties is a fascinating new direction of research. In the quantum realm, the many-body localization (MBL) was proposed to be the paradigmatic ergodicity breaking…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-01-01 J. Šuntajs , J. Bonča , T. Prosen , L. Vidmar

We numerically explore the many body localization (MBL) transition through the lens of the {\it entanglement spectrum}. While a direct transition from localization to thermalization is believed to obtain in the thermodynamic limit (the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-11-17 Scott D. Geraedts , Nicolas Regnault , Rahul M. Nandkishore

We present a large scale exact diagonalization study of the one dimensional spin $1/2$ Heisenberg model in a random magnetic field. In order to access properties at varying energy densities across the entire spectrum for system sizes up to…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-03-05 David J. Luitz , Nicolas Laflorencie , Fabien Alet

We introduce techniques for analysing the structure of quantum states of many-body localized (MBL) spin chains by identifying correlation clusters from pairwise correlations. These techniques proceed by interpreting pairwise correlations in…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-02-16 Kévin Hémery , Frank Pollmann , Adam Smith

We propose a method for detecting many-body localization (MBL) in disordered spin systems. The method involves pulsed, coherent spin manipulations that probe the dephasing of a given spin due to its entanglement with a set of distant spins.…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2014-10-08 M. Serbyn , M. Knap , S. Gopalakrishnan , Z. Papić , N. Y. Yao , C. R. Laumann , D. A. Abanin , M. D. Lukin , E. A. Demler