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 …

Avalanches and many-body resonances in many-body localized systems

A Morningstar, L Colmenarez, V Khemani, DJ Luitz… - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
We numerically study both the avalanche instability and many-body resonances in strongly
disordered spin chains exhibiting many-body localization (MBL). Finite-size systems behave …

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 …

Operator spreading and the emergence of dissipative hydrodynamics under unitary evolution with conservation laws

V Khemani, A Vishwanath, DA Huse - Physical Review X, 2018 - APS
We study the scrambling of local quantum information in chaotic many-body systems in the
presence of a locally conserved quantity like charge or energy that moves diffusively. The …

Quantum chaos challenges many-body localization

J Šuntajs, J Bonča, T Prosen, L Vidmar - Physical Review E, 2020 - APS
Characterizing states of matter through the lens of their ergodic properties is a fascinating
new direction of research. In the quantum realm, the many-body localization (MBL) was …

Distinguishing localization from chaos: Challenges in finite-size systems

DA Abanin, JH Bardarson, G De Tomasi… - Annals of Physics, 2021 - Elsevier
We re-examine attempts to study the many-body localization transition using measures that
are physically natural on the ergodic/quantum chaotic regime of the phase diagram. Using …

Entanglement of exact excited states of Affleck-Kennedy-Lieb-Tasaki models: Exact results, many-body scars, and violation of the strong eigenstate thermalization …

S Moudgalya, N Regnault, BA Bernevig - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
We obtain multiple exact results on the entanglement of the exact excited states of
nonintegrable models we introduced in Phys. Rev. B 98, 235155 (2018) 10.1103/PhysRevB …

Localization from Hilbert space shattering: From theory to physical realizations

V Khemani, M Hermele, R Nandkishore - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
We show how a finite number of conservation laws can globally “shatter” Hilbert space into
exponentially many dynamically disconnected subsectors, leading to an unexpected …

Measurement-induced phase transition: A case study in the nonintegrable model by density-matrix renormalization group calculations

Q Tang, W Zhu - Physical Review Research, 2020 - APS
We study the effect of local projective measurements on the quantum quench dynamics. As
a concrete example, a one-dimensional Bose-Hubbard model is simulated by the matrix …