Many-body localization: concepts and simple models

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Authors Robert Sims, Günter Stolz

Publication date 13 April 2016

Published in Markov Processes and Related Fields (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.0577

zbMATH Keywords

many-body localizationXY spin chainLieb-Robinson boundsarea lawquantum oscillator systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20) Disordered systems (random Ising models, random Schrödinger operators, etc.) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B44)

Abstract: We review recent results on many-body localization for two explicitly analyzable models of many-body quantum systems, the XY spin chain in transversal magnetic field as well as interacting systems of harmonic quantum oscillators. In both models the presence of disorder leads to dynamical localization in the form of zero-velocity Lieb-Robinson bounds and to exponential decay of ground state correlations. Moreover, for oscillator systems one can also show exponential decay of thermal states as well as an area law bound for the entanglement entropy of ground and thermal states. The key fact which allows a rigorous analysis of these models is that they are given by many-body Hamiltonians which can be reduced to effective single particle Hamiltonians.

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