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Many-body localization (MBL) transition emerges at strong disorder in interacting systems, separating chaotic and reversible dynamics. Although the existence of MBL transition within the macroscopic limit in spin chains with a short-range…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-02-06 Illia Lukin , Andrii Sotnikov , Alexander L. Burin

Experiments in cold atom systems see almost identical signatures of many body localization (MBL) in both one-dimensional ($d=1$) and two-dimensional ($d=2$) systems despite the thermal avalanche hypothesis showing that the MBL phase is…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-09-28 D. C. W. Foo , N. Swain , P. Sengupta , G. Lemarié , S. Adam

Many-body localization (MBL) is understood theoretically through the existence of an extensive number of local integrals of motion (LIOMs). These conserved quantities are related to the microscopic quantum degrees of freedom that are…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-12-11 Ben Craps , Oleg Evnin , Dmitry Kovrizhin , Gabriele Pascuzzi

We give an introduction into some aspects of the emerging mathematical theory of many-body localization (MBL) for disordered quantum spin chains. In particular, we discuss manifestations of MBL such as zero-velocity Lieb-Robinson bounds,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-02-15 Günter Stolz

Recently, the topics of many-body localization (MBL) and one-dimensional strongly interacting few-body systems have received a lot of interest. These two topics have been largely developed separately. However, the generality of the latter…

Within the standard model of many-body localization, i.e., the disordered chain of spinless fermions, we investigate how the interaction affects the many-body states in the basis of noninteracting localized Anderson states. From this…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-03-14 Peter Prelovšek , Osor S. Barišić , Marcin Mierzejewski

In a many-body localized (MBL) quantum system, the ergodic hypothesis breaks down completely, giving rise to a fundamentally new many-body phase. Whether and under which conditions MBL can occur in higher dimensions remains an outstanding…

We are interested in how quantum data can allow for practical solutions to otherwise difficult computational problems. A notoriously difficult phenomenon from quantum many-body physics is the emergence of many-body localization (MBL). So…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-02-21 Alexander Gresch , Lennart Bittel , Martin Kliesch

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

Many-body localization (MBL) is a result of the balance between interference-based Anderson localization and many-body interactions in an ultra-high dimensional Fock space. It is usually expected that dissipation is blurring interference…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-07-25 I. Vakulchyk , I. Yusipov , M. Ivanchenko , S. Flach , S. Denisov

We consider spinless fermions on a finite one-dimensional lattice, interacting via nearest-neighbor repulsion and subject to a strong electric field. In the non-interacting case, due to Wannier-Stark localization, the single-particle wave…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-03-20 M. Schulz , C. A. Hooley , R. Moessner , F. Pollmann

Many-body localization provides a generic mechanism of ergodicity breaking in quantum systems. In contrast to conventional ergodic systems, many-body localized (MBL) systems are characterized by extensively many local integrals of motion…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-03-05 Anushya Chandran , Isaac H. Kim , Guifre Vidal , Dmitry A. Abanin

We study the many body localization (MBL) transition for interacting fermions subject to quasiperiodic potentials by constructing the local integrals of motion (LIOMs) in the MBL phase as time-averaged local operators. We study numerically…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-06-16 Hansveer Singh , Brayden Ware , Romain Vasseur , Sarang Gopalakrishnan

Despite a very good understanding of single-particle Anderson localization in one-dimensional (1D) disordered systems, many-body effects are still full of surprises, a famous example being the interaction-driven many-body localization (MBL)…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-11-14 Jeanne Colbois , Nicolas Laflorencie

Some interacting disordered many-body systems are unable to thermalize when the quenched disorder becomes larger than a threshold value. Although several properties of nonzero energy density eigenstates (in the middle of the many-body…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-09-09 Abhisek Samanta , Kedar Damle , Rajdeep Sensarma

Utilizing exact diagonalization (ED) techniques, we investigate a one-dimensional, non-reciprocal, interacting hard-core boson model under a Stark potential with tail curvature. By employing the non-zero imaginary eigenenergies ratio,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-10-20 Han-Ze Li , Xue-Jia Yu , Jian-Xin Zhong

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

Disorder free many-body localization (MBL) can occur in interacting systems that can dynamically generate their own disorder. We address the thermal-MBL phase transition of two isotropic Heisenberg spin chains that are quasi-periodically…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-09-04 K. G. S. H. Gunawardana , Bruno Uchoa

We discuss the problem of localization in two dimensional electron systems in the quantum Hall (single Landau level) regime. After briefly summarizing the well-studied problem of Anderson localization in the non-interacting case, we…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-04-06 R. N. Bhatt , Akshay Krishna

We present a numerical study of the many-body localization (MBL) phenomenon in the high-temperature limit within an anisotropic Heisenberg model with random local fields. Taking the dynamical spin conductivity $\sigma(\omega)$ as the test…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-08-01 Osor S. Barišić , Jure Kokalj , Ivan Balog , Peter Prelovšek