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Many-body localization (MBL) hinders the thermalization of quantum many-body systems in the presence of strong disorder. In this work, we study the MBL regime in bond-disordered spin-1/2 XXZ spin chain, finding the multimodal distribution…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-02-12 Adith Sai Aramthottil , Piotr Sierant , Maciej Lewenstein , Jakub Zakrzewski

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

We study a canonical many-body-localized (MBL) system with power-law-correlated disorders: $s=\frac{1}{2}$ spin chain in a random magnetic field. The power-law-correlated disorder can control the critical regime between the MBL and thermal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-20 Takahiro Orito , Yoshihito Kuno , Ikuo Ichinose

In this work I will discuss some numerical results on the stability of the many-body localized phase to thermal inclusions. The work simplifies a recent proposal by Morningstar et al. [arXiv:2107.05642] and studies small disordered spin…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-07-28 Dries Sels

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

Using a new approximate strong-randomness renormalization group (RG), we study the many-body localized (MBL) phase and phase transition in one-dimensional quantum systems with short-range interactions and quenched disorder. Our RG is built…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-06-25 Alan Morningstar , David A. Huse

We demonstrate that the dynamics of quantum coherence serves as an effective probe for identifying dephasing, which is a distinctive signature of many-body localization (MBL). Quantum coherence can be utilized to measure both the local…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-19 Jin-Jun Chen , Kai Xu , Li-Hang Ren , Yu-Ran Zhang , Heng Fan

Recent developments in matrix-product-state (MPS) investigations of many-body localization (MBL) are reviewed, with a discussion of benefits and limitations of the method. This approach allows one to explore the physics around the MBL…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-04-29 Elmer V. H. Doggen , Igor V. Gornyi , Alexander D. Mirlin , Dmitry G. Polyakov

An interacting quantum system can transition from an ergodic to a many-body localized (MBL) phase under the presence of sufficiently large disorder. Both phases are radically different in their dynamical properties, which are characterized…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-05-29 Benjamin Villalonga , Bryan K. Clark

Spin glasses and many-body localization (MBL) are prime examples of ergodicity breaking, yet their physical origin is quite different: the former phase arises due to rugged classical energy landscape, while the latter is a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-01-14 Louk Rademaker , Dmitry A. Abanin

We study the qualitative and quantitative properties of the Barkhausen noise emerging at finite temperatures in random Ising models. The random-bond Ising Model is studied with a Wolff cluster Monte-Carlo algorithm to monitor the avalanches…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-23 Federico Ettori , Filippo Perani , Stefano Turzi , Paolo Biscari

We propose a scaling theory for the many-body localization (MBL) phase transition in one dimension, building on the idea that it proceeds via a 'quantum avalanche'. We argue that the critical properties can be captured at a coarse-grained…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-03-27 Philipp T. Dumitrescu , Anna Goremykina , Siddharth A. Parameswaran , Maksym Serbyn , Romain Vasseur

Understanding the stability of integrability in many-body quantum systems is key to controlling dynamics and predicting thermalization. While the breakdown of integrability in short-range interacting systems is well understood, the role of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-07 Soumya Kanti Pal , Lea F Santos

We analyze the finite-size scaling of the average gap-ratio and the entanglement entropy across the many-body localization (MBL) transition in one dimensional Heisenberg spin-chain with quasi-periodic (QP) potential. By using the recently…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-12-10 Adith Sai Aramthottil , Titas Chanda , Piotr Sierant , Jakub Zakrzewski

We examine the stability of marginally Anderson localized phase transitions between localized phases to the addition of many-body interactions, focusing in particular on the spin-glass to paramagnet transition in a disordered transverse…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-08-21 Sanjay Moudgalya , David A. Huse , Vedika Khemani

The effect of rare system-wide resonances in the many-body localization (MBL) transition has recently attracted significant attention. They are expected to play a prominent role in the stability of the MBL phase, prompting the development…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-11-13 Greivin Alfaro Miranda , Fabien Alet , Giulio Biroli , Leticia F. Cugliandolo , Nicolas Laflorencie , Marco Tarzia

In this paper, we theoretically investigate the many-body localization properties of one-dimensional Ising spin-1 chains by using the methods of exact matrix diagonalization. We compare it with the MBL properties of the Ising spin-1/2…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-05-06 Taotao Hu , Yining Zhang , Hang Ren , Yiwen Gao , Xiaodan Li , Jiameng Hong , Yuting Li

Frustrated itinerant magnets often exhibit complex noncollinear or noncoplanar magnetic orders which support topological electronic structures. A canonical example is the anomalous quantum Hall state with a chiral spin order stabilized by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-03-19 Yunhao Fan , Sheng Zhang , Gia-Wei Chern

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

Many-body localized (MBL) systems are known to thermalize in periodically driven systems. In this work, we demonstrate that under proper driving protocol, this thermalization this thermalization can be resisted such that the MBL phase turns…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-05-08 Biswajit Paul , Nilanjan Roy , Tapan Mishra