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We investigate operator dynamics and entanglement growth in dual-unitary circuits, a class of locally scrambled quantum systems that enables efficient simulation beyond the exponential complexity of the Hilbert space. By mapping the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-02 Menghan Song , Zhaoyi Zeng , Ting-Tung Wang , Yi-Zhuang You , Zi Yang Meng , Pengfei Zhang

Despite considerable efforts over the last decade, the high-energy phase diagram of the random-field Heisenberg chain still eludes our understanding, in particular the nature of the non-ergodic many-body localized (MBL) regime expected at…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-12-19 Nicolas Laflorencie , Jeanne Colbois , Fabien Alet

We study a so-called semi-ergodic brickwork dual-unitary circuits where, in the infinite volume limit, the two-point correlation functions of single-site operators exhibit ergodic behavior along one light ray and non-ergodic behavior along…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-23 Mao Tian Tan , Tomaž Prosen

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

The intriguing phenomenon of many-body localization (MBL) has attracted significant interest recently, but a complete characterization is still lacking. In this work, we introduce the total correlations, a concept from quantum information…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-11-09 J. Goold , C. Gogolin , S. R. Clark , J. Eisert , A. Scardicchio , A. Silva

We compute and compare the decay lengths of several correlation functions and effective coupling constants in the many-body localized (MBL) phase. To this end, we consider the distribution of the logarithms of these couplings and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-09-25 Vipin Kerala Varma , Abhishek Raj , Sarang Gopalakrishnan , Vadim Oganesyan , David Pekker

Understanding how complex entanglement structures emerge is a central problem in quantum many-body physics. Recent work by Zhang et al. has considered structured initial states prepared by evolving a product state under a chaotic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-21 Chen Xu , Pengfei Zhang

We analyze a disordered central spin model, where a central spin interacts equally with each spin in a periodic one dimensional random-field Heisenberg chain. If the Heisenberg chain is initially in the many-body localized (MBL) phase, we…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-11-07 Daniel Hetterich , Norman Y. Yao , Maksym Serbyn , Frank Pollmann , Björn Trauzettel

In a many-body quantum system, local operators in Heisenberg picture $O(t) = e^{i H t} O e^{-i H t}$ spread as time increases. Recent studies have attempted to find features of that spreading which could distinguish between chaotic and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-07-16 Vincenzo Alba , Jerome Dubail , Marko Medenjak

Stark Many-Body Localization (MBL) is a phenomenon observed in quantum systems in the absence of disorder, where the presence of a linear potential, known as the Stark field, causes the localization. Our study aims to provide novel insight…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-01-22 Chung Po Ching

Many-body localization (MBL) behavior is analyzed {in an extended Bose-Hubbard model with quasiperiodic infinite-range interactions. No additional disorder is present. Examining level statistics and entanglement entropy of eigenstates we…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-06-02 Piotr Kubala , Piotr Sierant , Giovanna Morigi , Jakub Zakrzewski

Local Operator Entanglement (LOE) has emerged an indicator of quantum chaos in many-body systems. Numerical studies have shown that, in chaotic systems, LOE grows linearly in time and displays a volume-law behavior at late times, scaling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Guilherme Ilário Correr , John Goold , Marco Cattaneo

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

In contrast with Anderson localization where a genuine localization is observed in real space, the many-body localization (MBL) problem is much less understood in the Hilbert space, support of the eigenstates. In this work, using exact…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-11-06 Nicolas Macé , Fabien Alet , Nicolas Laflorencie

Starting from a product initial state, equal-time correlations in nonrelativistic quantum lattice models propagate within a lightcone-like causal region. The presence of entanglement in the initial state can modify this behavior, enhancing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-21 Michael Kastner

In one dimension, noninteracting particles can undergo a localization-delocalization transition in a quasiperiodic potential. Recent studies have suggested that this transition transforms into a many-body localization (MBL) transition upon…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-12-09 Ranjan Modak , Subroto Mukerjee

In the context of the Many-Body-Localization phenomenology we consider arbitrarily large one-dimensional local spin systems, the XXZ model with random magnetic field is a prototypical example. Without assuming the existence of exponentially…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-08-19 Daniele Toniolo , Sougato Bose

We provide a pedagogical review on the calculation of highly excited eigenstates of disordered interacting quantum systems which can undergo a many-body localization (MBL) transition, using shift-invert exact diagonalization. We also…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-11-07 Francesca Pietracaprina , Nicolas Macé , David J. Luitz , Fabien Alet

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…

In quantum many-body systems with local interactions, quantum information and entanglement cannot spread outside of a linear light cone, which expands at an emergent velocity analogous to the speed of light. Local operations at sufficiently…