Dynamical obstruction to localization in a disordered spin chain

D Sels, A Polkovnikov - Physical Review E, 2021 - APS
We analyze a one-dimensional XXZ spin chain in a disordered magnetic field. As the main
probes of the system's behavior, we use the sensitivity of eigenstates to adiabatic …

Adiabatic eigenstate deformations as a sensitive probe for quantum chaos

M Pandey, PW Claeys, DK Campbell, A Polkovnikov… - Physical Review X, 2020 - APS
In the past decades, it was recognized that quantum chaos, which is essential for the
emergence of statistical mechanics and thermodynamics, manifests itself in the effective …

Universality in the onset of quantum chaos in many-body systems

T LeBlond, D Sels, A Polkovnikov, M Rigol - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
We show that the onset of quantum chaos at infinite temperature in two many-body one-
dimensional lattice models, the perturbed spin-1/2 XXZ and Anderson models, is …

Speck of chaos

LF Santos, F Pérez-Bernal, EJ Torres-Herrera - Physical Review Research, 2020 - APS
It has been shown that, despite being local, a perturbation applied to a single site of the one-
dimensional XXZ model is enough to bring this interacting integrable spin-1/2 system to the …

Eigenstate thermalization for observables that break Hamiltonian symmetries and its counterpart in interacting integrable systems

T LeBlond, M Rigol - Physical Review E, 2020 - APS
We study the off-diagonal matrix elements of observables that break the translational
symmetry of a spin-chain Hamiltonian, and as such connect energy eigenstates from …

Suppression of Pulsed Dynamic Nuclear Polarization by Many-Body Spin Dynamics

K Sasaki, E Abe - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
We study a mechanism by which nuclear hyperpolarization due to the polarization transfer
from a microwave-pulse-controlled electron spin is suppressed. From analytical and …

Metastable discrete time-crystal resonances in a dissipative central spin system

A Cabot, F Carollo, I Lesanovsky - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
We consider the nonequilibrium behavior of a central spin system where the central spin is
periodically reset to its ground state. The quantum-mechanical evolution under this …

Shortcuts to dynamic polarization

T Villazon, PW Claeys, A Polkovnikov, A Chandran - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
Dynamic polarization protocols aim to hyperpolarize a spin bath by transferring spin
polarization from a well-controlled qubit such as a quantum dot or a color defect. Building on …

Non-Markovian quantum state diffusion for spin environments

V Link, K Luoma, WT Strunz - New Journal of Physics, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We introduce an exact open system method to describe the dynamics of quantum systems
that are strongly coupled to specific types of environments comprising of spins, such as …

Quantum simulation of the central spin model with a Rydberg atom and polar molecules in optical tweezers

J Dobrzyniecki, M Tomza - Physical Review A, 2023 - APS
Central spin models, where a single spinful particle interacts with a spin environment, find
wide application in quantum information technology and can be used to describe, eg, the …