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 …

[HTML][HTML] Many-body localization: An introduction and selected topics

F Alet, N Laflorencie - Comptes Rendus Physique, 2018 - Elsevier
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 …

Observing non-ergodicity due to kinetic constraints in tilted Fermi-Hubbard chains

S Scherg, T Kohlert, P Sala, F Pollmann… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The thermalization of isolated quantum many-body systems is deeply related to fundamental
questions of quantum information theory. While integrable or many-body localized systems …

Topological phases of non-Hermitian systems

Z Gong, Y Ashida, K Kawabata, K Takasan… - Physical Review X, 2018 - APS
While Hermiticity lies at the heart of quantum mechanics, recent experimental advances in
controlling dissipation have brought about unprecedented flexibility in engineering non …

Exploring the regime of fragmentation in strongly tilted Fermi-Hubbard chains

T Kohlert, S Scherg, P Sala, F Pollmann… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Intriguingly, quantum many-body systems may defy thermalization even without disorder.
One example is so-called fragmented models, where the many-body Hilbert space …

Probing entanglement in a many-body–localized system

A Lukin, M Rispoli, R Schittko, ME Tai, AM Kaufman… - Science, 2019 - science.org
An interacting quantum system that is subject to disorder may cease to thermalize owing to
localization of its constituents, thereby marking the breakdown of thermodynamics. The key …

Dynamical quantum phase transitions: a review

M Heyl - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Quantum theory provides an extensive framework for the description of the equilibrium
properties of quantum matter. Yet experiments in quantum simulators have now opened up …

Exploring the many-body localization transition in two dimensions

J Choi, S Hild, J Zeiher, P Schauß, A Rubio-Abadal… - Science, 2016 - science.org
A fundamental assumption in statistical physics is that generic closed quantum many-body
systems thermalize under their own dynamics. Recently, the emergence of many-body …

Quantum entanglement in condensed matter systems

N Laflorencie - Physics Reports, 2016 - Elsevier
This review focuses on the field of quantum entanglement applied to condensed matter
physics systems with strong correlations, a domain which has rapidly grown over the last …

Quantum equilibration, thermalization and prethermalization in ultracold atoms

M Ueda - Nature Reviews Physics, 2020 - nature.com
Over the past decade, there has been remarkable progress in our understanding of
equilibration, thermalization and prethermalization, due in large part to experimental …