Spatio-temporal heterogeneity of entanglement in many-body localized systems

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2108.05594v3
• Date: Mon, 16 May 2022 07:38:09 GMT
• Title: Spatio-temporal heterogeneity of entanglement in many-body localized systems
• Authors: Claudia Artiaco, Federico Balducci, Markus Heyl, Angelo Russomanno, Antonello Scardicchio
• Abstract summary: We find that the relaxation times of local entanglement, as measured by the concurrence, are spatially correlated yielding a dynamical length scale for quantum entanglement. We propose a previously unrecognized connection between the behavior of classical glasses and the genuine quantum dynamics of MBL systems.
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• Abstract: We propose a spatio-temporal characterization of the entanglement dynamics in many-body localized (MBL) systems, which exhibits a striking resemblance with dynamical heterogeneity in classical glasses. Specifically, we find that the relaxation times of local entanglement, as measured by the concurrence, are spatially correlated yielding a dynamical length scale for quantum entanglement. As a consequence of this spatio-temporal analysis, we observe that the considered MBL system is made up of dynamically correlated clusters with a size set by this entanglement length scale. The system decomposes into compartments of different activity such as active regions with fast quantum entanglement dynamics and inactive regions where the dynamics is slow. We further find that the relaxation times of the on-site concurrence become broader distributed and more spatially correlated, as disorder increases or the energy of the initial state decreases. Through this spatio-temporal characterization of entanglement, our work unravels a previously unrecognized connection between the behavior of classical glasses and the genuine quantum dynamics of MBL systems.

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