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 …

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 …

Dynamics and transport at the threshold of many-body localization

S Gopalakrishnan, SA Parameswaran - Physics Reports, 2020 - Elsevier
Many-body localization (MBL) describes a class of systems that do not approach thermal
equilibrium under their intrinsic dynamics; MBL and conventional thermalizing systems form …

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 …

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 …

A brief history of time crystals

V Khemani, R Moessner, SL Sondhi - arxiv preprint arxiv:1910.10745, 2019 - arxiv.org
The idea of breaking time-translation symmetry has fascinated humanity at least since
ancient proposals of the perpetuum mobile. Unlike the breaking of other symmetries, such …

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 …

Rare thermal bubbles at the many-body localization transition from the Fock space point of view

G De Tomasi, IM Khaymovich, F Pollmann, S Warzel - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
In this paper we study the many-body localization (MBL) transition and relate it to the
eigenstate structure in the Fock space. Besides the standard entanglement and multifractal …

Kinetically constrained freezing transition in a dipole-conserving system

A Morningstar, V Khemani, DA Huse - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
We study a stochastic lattice gas of particles in one dimension with strictly finite-range
interactions that respect the fractonlike conservation laws of total charge and dipole moment …