Emergent pair localization in a many-body quantum spin system
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| author | Franz, Titus Geier, Sebastian Braemer, Adrian Hainaut, Clément Signoles, Adrien Thaicharoen, Nithiwadee Tebben, Annika Salzinger, André Gärttner, Martin Zürn, Gerhard Weidemüller, Matthias |
| author_facet | Franz, Titus Geier, Sebastian Braemer, Adrian Hainaut, Clément Signoles, Adrien Thaicharoen, Nithiwadee Tebben, Annika Salzinger, André Gärttner, Martin Zürn, Gerhard Weidemüller, Matthias |
| contents | Understanding how closed quantum systems dynamically approach thermal equilibrium presents a major unresolved problem in statistical physics. Generically, non-integrable quantum systems are expected to thermalize as they comply with the Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis. However, in the presence of strong disorder, the dynamics can possibly slow down to a degree that systems fail to thermalize on experimentally accessible timescales, as in spin glasses or many-body localized systems. In general, particularly in long-range interacting quantum systems, the specific nature of the disorder necessary for the emergence of a prethermal, metastable state--distinctly separating the timescales of initial relaxation and subsequent slow thermalization--remains an open question. We study an ensemble of Heisenberg spins with a tunable distribution of random coupling strengths realized by a Rydberg quantum simulator. We observe a drastic change in the late-time magnetization when increasing disorder strength. The data is well described by models based on pairs of strongly interacting spins, which are treated as thermal for weak disorder and isolated for strong disorder. Our results indicate a crossover into a pair-localized prethermal regime in a closed quantum system of thousands of spins in the critical case where the exponent of the power law interaction matches the spatial dimension. |
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| spellingShingle | Emergent pair localization in a many-body quantum spin system Franz, Titus Geier, Sebastian Braemer, Adrian Hainaut, Clément Signoles, Adrien Thaicharoen, Nithiwadee Tebben, Annika Salzinger, André Gärttner, Martin Zürn, Gerhard Weidemüller, Matthias Quantum Physics Disordered Systems and Neural Networks Statistical Mechanics Atomic Physics Understanding how closed quantum systems dynamically approach thermal equilibrium presents a major unresolved problem in statistical physics. Generically, non-integrable quantum systems are expected to thermalize as they comply with the Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis. However, in the presence of strong disorder, the dynamics can possibly slow down to a degree that systems fail to thermalize on experimentally accessible timescales, as in spin glasses or many-body localized systems. In general, particularly in long-range interacting quantum systems, the specific nature of the disorder necessary for the emergence of a prethermal, metastable state--distinctly separating the timescales of initial relaxation and subsequent slow thermalization--remains an open question. We study an ensemble of Heisenberg spins with a tunable distribution of random coupling strengths realized by a Rydberg quantum simulator. We observe a drastic change in the late-time magnetization when increasing disorder strength. The data is well described by models based on pairs of strongly interacting spins, which are treated as thermal for weak disorder and isolated for strong disorder. Our results indicate a crossover into a pair-localized prethermal regime in a closed quantum system of thousands of spins in the critical case where the exponent of the power law interaction matches the spatial dimension. |
| title | Emergent pair localization in a many-body quantum spin system |
| topic | Quantum Physics Disordered Systems and Neural Networks Statistical Mechanics Atomic Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.14216 |