14.02.2024 (Wednesday)

DS Non-ergodic extended phase of the Quantum Random Energy model

regular seminar Mikhail Feigel'man (NANOCENTER Ljubljana, Slovenija and Landau ITP, Moscow, Russia)

at:
13:30 - 14:30
KCL, Strand
room: S4.23
abstract:

The concept of non-ergodicity in quantum many body systems can be discussed in the context of the wave functions of the many body system or as a property of the dynamical observables, such as time-dependent spin correlators. In the former approach the non-ergodic delocalized state is defined as the one in which the wave functions occupy a volume that scales as a non-trivial power of the full phase space. In this work we study the simplest quantum spin glass model and find that in the delocalized non-ergodic regime the spin–spin correlators decay with the characteristic time that scales as non-trivial power of the full Hilbert space volume. The long time limit of this correlator also scales as a power of the full Hilbert space volume. We identify this phase with the glass phase whilst the many body localized phase corresponds to a ’hyperglass’ n which dynamics is practically absent. We discuss the implications of these findings to quantum information problems.

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