Many-body localization and thermalization in quantum statistical mechanics

R Nandkishore, DA Huse - Annu. Rev. Condens. Matter Phys., 2015 - annualreviews.org
We review some recent developments in the statistical mechanics of isolated quantum
systems. We provide a brief introduction to quantum thermalization, paying particular …

[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 …

Weak ergodicity breaking from quantum many-body scars

CJ Turner, AA Michailidis, DA Abanin, M Serbyn… - Nature Physics, 2018 - nature.com
The thermodynamic description of many-particle systems rests on the assumption of
ergodicity, the ability of a system to explore all allowed configurations in the phase space …

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 …

Finite-temperature transport in one-dimensional quantum lattice models

B Bertini, F Heidrich-Meisner, C Karrasch, T Prosen… - Reviews of Modern …, 2021 - APS
Over the last decade impressive progress has been made in the theoretical understanding
of transport properties of clean, one-dimensional quantum lattice systems. Many physically …

Quantum scarred eigenstates in a Rydberg atom chain: Entanglement, breakdown of thermalization, and stability to perturbations

CJ Turner, AA Michailidis, DA Abanin, M Serbyn… - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
Recent realization of a kinetically constrained chain of Rydberg atoms by Bernien,[Nature
(London) 551, 579 (2017) NATUAS 0028-0836 10.1038/nature24622] resulted in the …

Many-body localization in a disordered quantum Ising chain

JA Kjäll, JH Bardarson, F Pollmann - Physical review letters, 2014 - APS
Many-body localization occurs in isolated quantum systems when Anderson localization
persists in the presence of finite interactions. Despite strong evidence for the existence of a …

Recent progress in many‐body localization

DA Abanin, Z Papić - Annalen der Physik, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
This article is a brief introduction to the rapidly evolving field of many‐body localization.
Rather than giving an in‐depth review of the subject, our aspiration here is simply to …

Can we study the many-body localisation transition?

RK Panda, A Scardicchio, M Schulz… - Europhysics …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a detailed analysis of the length-and timescales needed to approach the critical
region of MBL from the delocalised phase, studying both eigenstates and the time evolution …

[HTML][HTML] Integrals of motion in the many-body localized phase

V Ros, M Müller, A Scardicchio - Nuclear Physics B, 2015 - Elsevier
We construct a complete set of quasi-local integrals of motion for the many-body localized
phase of interacting fermions in a disordered potential. The integrals of motion can be …