Entanglement, dynamics and breakdown 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.

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