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TT 19: Correlated Electrons: Nonequilibrium Quantum Many-Body Systems 2 (jointly with DY)
TT 19.9: Talk
Monday, March 16, 2015, 17:15–17:30, H 3010
Many-body localization and quantum ergodicity in disordered long-range Ising models — Philipp Hauke1 and •Markus Heyl2 — 1Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria — 2Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
Ergodicity in quantum many-body systems is - despite its fundamental importance - still an open problem. Many-body localization provides a general framework for quantum ergodicity, and may therefore offer important insights. In this talk, it will be shown using both numerical and analytical methods that long-range interacting Ising models with transverse-field disorder enter a many-body localized phase at infinite temperature, irrespective of the disorder strength. As a consequence, these systems are nonergodic. To characterize and quantify quantum ergodicity, a measure for distances in Hilbert space will be introduced. It will be shown that in spin-1/2 systems it is equivalent to a simple local observable in real space, which can be measured in current experiments of superconducting qubits, polar molecules, Rydberg atoms, and trapped ions.