Area laws in a many-body localized state and its implications for topological order
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Publication:3301682
DOI10.1088/1742-5468/2013/09/P09005zbMATH Open1456.81046arXiv1306.5753MaRDI QIDQ3301682FDOQ3301682
Publication date: 11 August 2020
Published in: Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: The question whether Anderson insulators can persist to finite-strength interactions - a scenario dubbed many-body localization - has recently received a great deal of interest. The origin of such a many-body localized phase has been described as localization in Fock space, a picture we examine numerically. We then formulate a precise sense in which a single energy eigenstate of a Hamiltonian can be adiabatically connected to a state of a non-interacting Anderson insulator. We call such a state a many-body localized state and define a many-body localized phase as one in which almost all states are many-body localized states. We explore the possible consequences of this; the most striking is an area law for the entanglement entropy of almost all excited states in a many-body localized phase. We present the results of numerical calculations for a one-dimensional system of spinless fermions. Our results are consistent with an area law and, by implication, many-body localization for almost all states and almost all regions for weak enough interactions and strong disorder. However, there are rare regions and rare states with much larger entanglement entropies. Furthermore, we study the implications that many-body localization may have for topological phases and self-correcting quantum memories. We find that there are scenarios in which many-body localization can help to stabilize topological order at non-zero energy density, and we propose potentially useful criteria to confirm these scenarios.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1306.5753
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