Universal Properties of Many-Body Delocalization Transitions

We study the dynamical melting of “hot” one-dimensional many-body localized systems. As disorder is weakened below a critical value, these nonthermal quantum glasses melt via a continuous dynamical phase transition into classical thermal liquids. By accounting for collective resonant tunneling proce...

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Main Authors: Andrew C. Potter, Romain Vasseur, S. A. Parameswaran
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2015-09-01
Series:Physical Review X
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.5.031033