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Recent numerical and experimental works have revealed a disorder-free many-body localization (MBL) in an interacting system subjecting to a linear potential, known as the Stark MBL. The conventional MBL, induced by disorder, has been widely…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-10 Yong-Yi Wang , Zheng-Hang Sun , Heng Fan

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

Detecting many-body localization (MBL) typically requires the calculation of high-energy eigenstates using numerical approaches. This study investigates methods that assume the use of a quantum device to detect disorder-induced…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-10-31 Kazue Kudo

Many-body localized (MBL) systems do not approach thermal equilibrium under their intrinsic dynamics; MBL and conventional thermalizing systems form distinct dynamical phases of matter, separated by a phase transition at which equilibrium…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-05-25 Sarang Gopalakrishnan , S. A. Parameswaran

Many-body localization (MBL) addresses the absence of thermalization in interacting quantum systems, with non-ergodic high-energy eigenstates behaving as ground states, only area-law entangled. However, computing highly excited many-body…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-01-23 Maxime Dupont , Nicolas Laflorencie

Many-body localization (MBL) provides a mechanism by which interacting quantum systems evade thermalization, leading to persistent memory of initial conditions and slow entanglement growth. Probing these dynamical signatures in large…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-16 Kazuma Nagao , Tomonori Shirakawa , Rongyang Sun , Peter Prelovšek , Seiji Yunoki

In the presence of disorder, an interacting closed quantum system can undergo many-body localization (MBL) and fail to thermalize. However, over long times even weak couplings to any thermal environment will necessarily thermalize the…

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…

Many-body localization (MBL) has been proposed to enable and protect topological order in all eigenstates, vastly expanding the traditional ground-state setting. However, for the most intriguing case of two-dimensional (2D) systems with…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-11-15 Florian Venn , Thorsten B. Wahl , Benjamin Béri

Many-body localized (MBL) phases of disordered quantum many-particle systems have a number of unique properties, including failure to act as a thermal bath and protection of quantum coherence. Studying MBL is complicated by the effects of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-01-03 Michael Sonner , Alessio Lerose , Dmitry A. Abanin

Can localization persist when interaction grows infinitely stronger than randomness? If so, is it many-body Anderson localization? How about the associated localization transition in the infinite-interaction limit? To tackle these…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-12-06 Chun Chen , Yan Chen , Xiaoqun Wang

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

Many-body localization (MBL) provides a mechanism to avoid thermalization in many-body quantum systems. Here, we show that an {\it emergent} symmetry can protect a state from MBL. Specifically, we propose a $\Z_2$ symmetric model with…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-12-15 N. S. Srivatsa , Roderich Moessner , Anne E. B. Nielsen

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 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

Quantum nonlocality describes a stronger form of quantum correlation than that of entanglement. It refutes Einstein's belief of local realism and is among the most distinctive and enigmatic features of quantum mechanics. It is a crucial…

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

Many-body localization is a profound phase of matter affecting the entire spectrum which emerges in the presence of disorder in interacting many-body systems. Recently, the stability of many-body localization has been challenged by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Muhammad Sajid , Rozhin Yousefjani , Abolfazl Bayat

Phase transitions are driven by collective fluctuations of a system's constituents that emerge at a critical point. This mechanism has been extensively explored for classical and quantum systems in equilibrium, whose critical behavior is…

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