Entanglement, dynamics and <i>breakdown</i> of many-body localization in current driven system

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Abstract

What is the fate of a many-body localized system under a voltage bias between two ends? Can the system undergo a transition to a current carrying non-equilibrium steady state and how the entanglement properties of the quantum states change across the transition? Motivated by these questions, we model a current driven interacting disorder system through a non-Hermitian Hamiltonian and study the entanglement properties of its eigenstates. We also discuss the dynamics, entanglement growth and long-time fate of a generic initial state under an appropriate time-evolution of the system governed by the non-Hermitian Hamiltonian. Our study reveals rich entanglement structures of current driven states and multiple dynamical transitions as a function of disorder and the strength of the non-Hermitian term, that is related to the external bias.

*SB is supported by The Infosys Foundation, India through Infosys Young
Investigator Award, AP by UGS-CSIR, India

Presenters

  • Sumilan Banerjee

    • Center for Condensed Matter Theory, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science
    • Indian Institute of Science
    • Physics, Indian Institute of Science
    • Center for Condensed Matter Theory, Dept. of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Indian Institute of Science

Authors

  • Sumilan Banerjee

    • Center for Condensed Matter Theory, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science
    • Indian Institute of Science
    • Physics, Indian Institute of Science
    • Center for Condensed Matter Theory, Dept. of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Indian Institute of Science
  • Animesh Panda

    • Center for Condensed Matter Theory, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science