Wednesday, May 22, 2013

1305.4915 (David A. Huse et al.)

A phenomenology of certain many-body-localized systems    [PDF]

David A. Huse, Vadim Oganesyan
We consider isolated quantum systems with all of their many-body eigenstates localized. We define a sense in which such systems are integrable, and discuss a method for finding their localized conserved quantum numbers ("constants of motion"). These localized operators are interacting pseudospins and are subject to dephasing but not to dissipation, so any quantum states of these pseudospins can in principle be recovered via (spin) echo procedures. We also discuss the spreading of entanglement in many-body localized systems, which is another aspect of the dephasing due to interactions between these localized conserved operators.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.4915

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