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A recent experiment by P. Bordia et al. (Periodically Driving a Many Body Localized Quantum System, Nat Phys, Jan 2017) has demonstrated that periodically modulating the potential of a localised many-body quantum system described by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-31 Donato Romito , Carlos Lobo , Alessio Recati

We study the many-body localization aspects of single-particle mobility edges in fermionic systems. We investigate incommensurate lattices and random disorder Anderson models. Many-body localization and quantum nonergodic properties are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-06-07 Xiaopeng Li , J. H. Pixley , Dong-Ling Deng , Sriram Ganeshan , S. Das Sarma

Closed generic quantum many-body systems may fail to thermalize under certain conditions even after long times, a phenomenon called many-body localization (MBL). Numerous studies support the stability of the MBL phase in strongly disordered…

The many-body localization (MBL) proximity effect is an intriguing phenomenon where a thermal bath localizes due to the interaction with a disordered system. The interplay of thermal and non-ergodic behavior in these systems gives rise to a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-08-16 Pietro Brighi , Marko Ljubotina , Dmitry A. Abanin , Maksym Serbyn

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

Many-body localization is shown to suppress imaginary parts of complex eigenenergies for general non-Hermitian Hamiltonians having time-reversal symmetry. We demonstrate that a real-complex transition, which we conjecture occurs upon…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-09-04 Ryusuke Hamazaki , Kohei Kawabata , Masahito Ueda

Non-Hermitian phenomena, such as exceptional points, non-Hermitian skin effects, and topologically nontrivial phases have attracted continued attention. In this work, we reveal how interactions and nonreciprocal hopping could collectively…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-03-04 Yalun Zhang , Longwen Zhou

We theoretically study transport properties in one-dimensional interacting quasiperiodic systems at infinite temperature. We compare and contrast the dynamical transport properties across the many-body localization (MBL) transition in…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-09-21 F. Setiawan , Dong-Ling Deng , J. H. Pixley

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

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

Thermalizing quantum systems are conventionally described by statistical mechanics at equilibrium. However, not all systems fall into this category, with many body localization providing a generic mechanism for thermalization to fail in…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-05-29 Dmitry A. Abanin , Ehud Altman , Immanuel Bloch , Maksym Serbyn

The cooperation between time-periodic driving fields and non-Hermitian effects could endow systems with distinctive spectral and transport properties. In this work, we uncover an intriguing class of non-Hermitian Floquet matter in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-16 Longwen Zhou , Wenqian Han

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

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

We introduce novel characterizations for many-body phase transitions between delocalized and localized phases based on the system's sensitivity to boundary conditions. In particular, we change boundary conditions from periodic to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-01-27 Mohammad Pouranvari , Shiuan-Fan Liou

We study the localization problem of one-dimensional interacting spinless fermions in an incommensurate optical lattice, which changes from an extended phase to a nonergoic many-body localized phase by increasing the strength of the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-01-03 Yucheng Wang , Haiping Hu , Shu Chen

The many-body localization transition is a dynamical quantum phase transition between a localized and an extended phase. We study this transition in the XXZ model with disordered magnetic field and focus on the time evolution following a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-02-24 Rajeev Singh , Jens H. Bardarson , Frank Pollmann

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

We show that a quantum phase transition from ergodic to many-body localized (MBL) phases can be induced via periodic pulsed manipulation of spin systems. Such a transition is enabled by the interplay between weak disorder and slow heating…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-03-28 Soonwon Choi , Dmitry A. Abanin , Mikhail D. Lukin

Many-body localization is a unique physical phenomenon driven by interactions and disorder for which a quantum system can evade thermalization. While the existence of a many-body localized phase is now well-established in one-dimensional…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-08-06 Hugo Théveniaut , Zhihao Lan , Gabriel Meyer , Fabien Alet