Physics Research Conference
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Many-Body Localization: What is It and What are Its Implications?
Chetan Nayak,
Microsoft Q Station,
UC Santa Barbara,
Many-body localization is a hypothesized phenomenon in which a system fails to thermalize due to random impurities. A more precise definition will be given for many-body localization. An important consequence of this definition is an area-law for the entanglement entropy of excited states with non-zero energy density. Calculations on model systems will be presented; they are consistent with the occurrence of many-body localization. Some consequences will be discussed, including the possible stabilization of topological order.
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Event Series
Physics Research Conference