Colloquium: Quantum and classical discrete time crystals

MP Zaletel, M Lukin, C Monroe, C Nayak, F Wilczek… - Reviews of Modern …, 2023 - APS
The spontaneous breaking of time-translation symmetry has led to the discovery of a new
phase of matter: the discrete time crystal. Discrete time crystals exhibit rigid subharmonic …

Matrix product states and projected entangled pair states: Concepts, symmetries, theorems

JI Cirac, D Perez-Garcia, N Schuch, F Verstraete - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2021 - APS
The theory of entanglement provides a fundamentally new language for describing
interactions and correlations in many-body systems. Its vocabulary consists of qubits and …

Avalanches and many-body resonances in many-body localized systems

A Morningstar, L Colmenarez, V Khemani, DJ Luitz… - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
We numerically study both the avalanche instability and many-body resonances in strongly
disordered spin chains exhibiting many-body localization (MBL). Finite-size systems behave …

Many-body localization in the age of classical computing

P Sierant, M Lewenstein, A Scardicchio… - Reports on Progress …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Statistical mechanics provides a framework for describing the physics of large, complex
many-body systems using only a few macroscopic parameters to determine the state of the …

Eigenstate thermalization hypothesis

JM Deutsch - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
The emergence of statistical mechanics for isolated classical systems comes about through
chaotic dynamics and ergodicity. Here we review how similar questions can be answered in …

Speed limits and locality in many-body quantum dynamics

CFA Chen, A Lucas, C Yin - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We review the mathematical speed limits on quantum information processing in many-body
systems. After the proof of the Lieb–Robinson Theorem in 1972, the past two decades have …

[HTML][HTML] Many-body localization: An introduction and selected topics

F Alet, N Laflorencie - Comptes Rendus Physique, 2018 - Elsevier
What happens in an isolated quantum system when both disorder and interactions are
present? Over the recent years, the picture of a non-thermalizing phase of matter, the many …

Entanglement phase transitions in measurement-only dynamics

M Ippoliti, MJ Gullans, S Gopalakrishnan, DA Huse… - Physical Review X, 2021 - APS
Unitary circuits subject to repeated projective measurements can undergo an entanglement
phase transition (EPT) as a function of the measurement rate. This transition is generally …

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 …

Operator spreading and the emergence of dissipative hydrodynamics under unitary evolution with conservation laws

V Khemani, A Vishwanath, DA Huse - Physical Review X, 2018 - APS
We study the scrambling of local quantum information in chaotic many-body systems in the
presence of a locally conserved quantity like charge or energy that moves diffusively. The …