Many-body localization caused by temporal disorder
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
2017-10-11 v2 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Quantum Gases
Abstract
The many-body localization (MBL) is commonly related to a strong spatial disorder. We show that MBL may alternatively be generated by adding a temporal disorder to periodically driven many-body systems. We reach this conclusion by mapping the evolution of such systems on the dynamics of the time-independent, disordered, Hubbard-like models. Our result opens the way to experimental studies of MBL in systems that reveal crystalline structures in the time domain. In particular, we discuss two relevant setups which can be implemented in experiments on ultra-cold atomic gases.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1706.09791,
title = {Many-body localization caused by temporal disorder},
author = {Marcin Mierzejewski and Krzysztof Giergiel and Krzysztof Sacha},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.09791},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
6 pages, 2 figures, version accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. B as a Rapid Communication