A stabilization mechanism for many-body localization in two dimensions

• Main Authors: Foo, Darryl C. W., Swain, Nyayabanta, Sengupta, Pinaki, Lemarié, Gabriel, Adam, Shaffique
• Other Authors: School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: Science::Physics; Cold Atoms; Disordered System
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/171748
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Experiments in cold atom systems see almost identical signatures of many body localization (MBL) in both one-dimensional ($d=1$) and two-dimensional ($d=2$) systems despite the thermal avalanche hypothesis showing that the MBL phase is unstable for $d>1$. Underpinning the thermal avalanche arg...