Many-body localization in the age of classical computing

P Sierant, M Lewenstein, A Scardicchio… - Reports on Progress …, 2025 - iopscience.iop.org
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 …

Challenges to observation of many-body localization

P Sierant, J Zakrzewski - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
We study time dynamics of 1D disordered Heisenberg spin-1/2 chains focusing on a regime
of large system sizes and a long-time evolution. This regime is relevant for observation of …

Thouless time analysis of Anderson and many-body localization transitions

P Sierant, D Delande, J Zakrzewski - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
Spectral statistics of disordered systems encode Thouless and Heisenberg timescales,
whose ratio determines whether the system is chaotic or localized. We show that the scaling …

Ergodicity breaking transition in finite disordered spin chains

J Šuntajs, J Bonča, T Prosen, L Vidmar - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
We study disorder-induced ergodicity breaking transition in high-energy eigenstates of
interacting spin-1/2 chains. Using exact diagonalization, we introduce a cost function …

Polynomially filtered exact diagonalization approach to many-body localization

P Sierant, M Lewenstein, J Zakrzewski - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
Polynomially filtered exact diagonalization method (POLFED) for large sparse matrices is
introduced. The algorithm finds an optimal basis of a subspace spanned by eigenvectors …

Quantum Chaos and level dynamics

J Zakrzewski - Entropy, 2023 - mdpi.com
We review the application of level dynamics to spectra of quantally chaotic systems. We
show that the statistical mechanics approach gives us predictions about level statistics …

Universality in Anderson localization on random graphs with varying connectivity

P Sierant, M Lewenstein, A Scardicchio - SciPost Physics, 2023 - scipost.org
We perform a thorough and complete analysis of the Anderson localization transition on
several models of random graphs with regular and random connectivity. The unprecedented …

Rainbow scars: From area to volume law

CM Langlett, ZC Yang, J Wildeboer, AV Gorshkov… - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
Quantum many-body scars (QMBS) constitute a new quantum dynamical regime in which
rare “scarred” eigenstates mediate weak ergodicity breaking. One open question is to …

Stability of many-body localization in Floquet systems

P Sierant, M Lewenstein, A Scardicchio, J Zakrzewski - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
We study many-body localization (MBL) transition in disordered Floquet systems using a
polynomially filtered exact diagonalization (POLFED) algorithm. We focus on disordered …

Time dynamics with matrix product states: Many-body localization transition of large systems revisited

T Chanda, P Sierant, J Zakrzewski - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
We compare the accuracy of two prime time evolution algorithms involving matrix product
states—tDMRG (time-dependent density matrix renormalization group) and TDVP (time …