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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 review recent developments in the study of out-of-equilibrium topological states of matter in isolated systems. The phenomenon of many-body localization, exhibited by some isolated systems usually in the presence of quenched disorder,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-07-05 S. A. Parameswaran , Romain Vasseur

The connection between entanglement dynamics and non-equilibrium statistics in isolated many-body quantum systems has been established both theoretically and experimentally. Many-Body Localization (MBL), a phenomenon where interacting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-04 Peyman Azodi , Herschel A. Rabitz

Isolated quantum systems with quenched randomness exhibit many-body localization (MBL), wherein they do not reach local thermal equilibrium even when highly excited above their ground states. It is widely believed that individual…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-10-11 A. Chandran , A. Pal , C. R. Laumann , A. Scardicchio

Quantum many-body systems with sufficiently strong disorder can exhibit a non-equilibrium phenomenon, known as the many-body localization (MBL), which is distinct from conventional thermalization. While the MBL regime has been extensively…

Whether disordered and quasiperiodic many-body quantum systems host a long-lived localized phase in the thermodynamic limit has been the subject of intense recent debate. While in one dimension substantial evidence for the existence of such…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-11-30 Antonio Štrkalj , Elmer V. H. Doggen , Claudio Castelnovo

Many-body localization (MBL) is an intriguing physical phenomenon that arises from the interplay of interaction and disorder, allowing quantum systems to prevent thermalization. In this study, we investigate the MBL properties of the fully…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-02-20 Jiameng Hong , Taotao Hu

Recent theoretical and numerical evidence suggests that localization can survive in disordered many-body systems with very high energy density, provided that interactions are sufficiently weak. Stronger interactions can destroy…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-04-17 Shankar Iyer , Vadim Oganesyan , Gil Refael , David A. Huse

Localization marks the breakdown of thermalization in subregions of quantum many-body systems in the presence of sufficiently large disorder. In this paper, we use numerical techniques to study thermalization and localization in a many-body…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-03-07 Spasen Chaykov , Brenden Bowen , Nishant Agarwal

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

Many-body localization occurs in isolated quantum systems when Anderson localization persists in the presence of finite interactions. Despite strong evidence for the existence of a many-body localization transition a reliable extraction of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-09-17 Jonas A. Kjäll , Jens H. Bardarson , Frank Pollmann

We investigate the mixed-state entanglement between two spins embedded in the XXZ Heisenberg chain under thermal equilibrium. By deriving an analytical expression for the entanglement of two-spin thermal states and extending this analysis…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-28 Dihang Sun , Zhigang Hu , Biao Wu

The transition from a many-body localized phase to a thermalizing one is a dynamical quantum phase transition which lies outside the framework of equilibrium statistical mechanics. We provide a detailed study of the critical properties of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-04-27 Vedika Khemani , S. P. Lim , D. N. Sheng , David A. Huse

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

What happens in an isolated quantum system when both disorder and interactions are present? Over the recent years, the picture of a non-thermalizing phase of matter, the many-localized phase, has emerged as a stable solution. We present a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-05-22 Fabien Alet , Nicolas Laflorencie

Many-body localization provides a mechanism to avoid thermalization in isolated interacting quantum systems. The breakdown of thermalization may be complete, when all eigenstates in the many-body spectrum become localized, or partial, when…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-09-02 Pietro Brighi , Dmitry Abanin , Maksym Serbyn

We study time dynamics of 1D disordered Heisenberg spin-1/2 chain focusing on a regime of large system sizes and a long time evolution. This regime is relevant for observation of many-body localization (MBL), a phenomenon that is expected…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-08-02 Piotr Sierant , Jakub Zakrzewski

We study the many-body localization of spin chain systems with quasiperiodic fields. We identify the lower bound for the critical disorder necessary to drive the transition between the thermal and many-body localized phase to be $W_{cl}\sim…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-08-30 Mac Lee , Thomas R. Look , D. N. Sheng , S. P. Lim

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…

It is known that strong disorder in closed quantum systems leads to many-body localization (MBL), and that this quantum phase can be destroyed by coupling to an infinitely large Markovian environment. However, the stability of the MBL phase…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-07-07 Shao-Hen Chiew , Jiangbin Gong , Leong-Chuan Kwek , Chee-Kong Lee