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Krylov complexity has recently gained attention where the growth of operator complexity in time is measured in terms of the off-diagonal operator Lanczos coefficients. The operator Lanczos algorithm reduces the problem of complexity growth…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-23 Heiko Georg Menzler , Rishabh Jha

Understanding how and whether local perturbations can affect the entire quantum system is a fundamental step in understanding non-equilibrium phenomena such as thermalization. This knowledge of non-equilibrium phenomena is applicable for…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-04-03 Eric Mascot , Masahiro Nozaki , Masaki Tezuka

We study the creation and distribution of entanglement in disordered $XY$-type spin-$1/2$ chains for the paradigmatic case of a single flipped spin prepared on a fully polarized background. The local magnetic field is set to follow a…

We carry out a systematic study of the exact block entanglement in XXZ spin-chain at Delta=-1/2. We present, the first analytic expressions for reduced density matrices of n spins in a chain of length L (for n<=6 and arbitrary but odd L) of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Bernard Nienhuis , Massimo Campostrini , Pasquale Calabrese

We investigate the phenomenon of spacetime-localized response in a quantum critical spin system, with particular attention to how it depends on the spatial profile and operator content of the applied perturbation, as well as its robustness…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-03 Daichi Imagawa , Keiju Murata , Daisuke Yamamoto

The breakdown of Lieb-Robinson bounds in local, non-Hermitian quantum systems opens up the possibility for a rich landscape of quantum many-body phenomenology. We elucidate this by studying information scrambling and quantum chaos in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-18 Brian Barch , Namit Anand , Jeffrey Marshall , Eleanor Rieffel , Paolo Zanardi

Strong local disorder in interacting quantum spin chains can turn delocalized eigenmodes into localized eigenstates, giving rise to many-body localized (MBL) phases. This is accompanied by distinct spectral statistics: chaotic for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-05 Federico Roccati , Federico Balducci , Ruth Shir , Aurélia Chenu

We study localisation effects of strong disorder on the spectral and dynamical properties of (matrix and scalar) Schroedinger operators with non-monotone random potentials, on the d-dimensional lattice. Our results include dynamical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-11-18 Alexander Elgart , Mira Shamis , Sasha Sodin

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 characterize the growth and spreading of operators and entanglement in two paradigmatic non-thermalizing phases - the many-body localized phase and the random singlet phase - using out-of-time-ordered correlators, the entanglement…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-12-15 Ian MacCormack , Mao Tian Tan , Jonah Kudler-Flam , Shinsei Ryu

We consider a one dimensional spin $1/2$ chain with Heisenberg interaction in a disordered parallel magnetic field. This system is known to exhibit the many body localization (MBL) transition at critical strength of disorder. We analyze the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-03-01 Canran Xu , Maxim G. Vavilov

In this paper, we investigate random operators on $\mathbb{Z}^d$ with H\"older continuously distributed potentials and the long-range hopping. The hopping amplitude decays with the inter-particle distance $\|\bm x\|$ as…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-05-27 Yunfeng Shi , Li Wen , Dongfeng Yan

The paper presents high-order accurate, energy-, and entropy-stable discretizations constructed from summation-by-parts (SBP) operators. Notably, the discretizations assemble global SBP operators and use continuous solutions, unlike…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-13 Jason E. Hicken

Simulating real-time quantum dynamics in interacting spin systems is a fundamental challenge, where exact diagonalization suffers from exponential Hilbert-space growth and tensor-network methods face entanglement barriers. Recently,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Yuguo Shao , Song Cheng , Zhengwei Liu

We study a general class of random block Schr\"odinger operators (RBSOs) in dimensions 1 and 2, which naturally extend the Anderson model by replacing the random potential with a random block potential. Specifically, we focus on two RBSOs…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-06-11 Steven Khang Truong , Fan Yang , Jun Yin

We numerically investigate the dynamics of entanglement in a chain of spinless fermions with nonrandom but long-range hopping and interactions, and with random on-site energies. For moderate disorder in the absence of interactions, the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-03-29 Rajeev Singh , Roderich Moessner , Dibyendu Roy

We consider a quench in an infinite spin ladder describing a system with two species of bosons in the limit of strong interactions. If the heavy bosonic species has infinite mass the model becomes a spin chain with quenched binary disorder…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-03-01 J. Sirker

We consider a noninteracting disordered system designed to model particle diffusion, relaxation in glasses, and impurity bands of semiconductors. Disorder originates in the random spatial distribution of sites. We find strong numerical…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-03-17 Jacob J. Krich , Alán Aspuru-Guzik

In this paper, we theoretically investigate the many-body localization (MBL) properties of one-dimensional anisotropic spin-1/2 chains by using the exact matrix diagonalization method. Starting from the Ising spin-1/2 chain, we introduce…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-04-15 Taotao Hu , Yuting Li , Jiameng Hong , Xiaodan Li , Dongyan Guo , Kangning Chen

We present a new variational method, based on the matrix product operator (MPO) ansatz, for finding the steady state of dissipative quantum chains governed by master equations of the Lindblad form. Instead of requiring an accurate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-10 Jian Cui , J. Ignacio Cirac , Mari Carmen Bañuls