Localized many-body dynamics in a frustrated spin chain

Speaker
Dr. Sayan Choudhury
Affiliation
University of Pittsburgh
Time
2019-11-21 (Thu) 10:00
Location
上海研究院4号楼325
Abstract

Motivated by the question of whether disorder is a prerequisite for localization to occur in quantum many-body systems, we study a frustrated one-dimensional spin chain, which supports localized many-body eigenstates in the absence of disorder. When the system is prepared in an initial state with one domain wall, it exhibits characteristic signatures of many-body localization (MBL), including initial state memory retention, an exponentially increasing lifetime with enlarging the size of the system, a logarithmic growth of entanglement entropy, and a logarithmic light cone of an out-of-time-ordered correlator. We further show that the localized many-body eigenstates can be manipulated as pseudospin-1/2s and thus could potentially serve as qubits. Our findings suggest a new route of using frustration to access localization in many-body quantum systems and preserve quantum coherence.