An experiment with ultracold atoms reveals that a strongly driven quantum system doesn’t always heat up as expected. In daily life, doing work on something over and over usually makes it warmer. You ...

Despite being continually kicked and strongly interacting, the atoms no longer absorb energy. The system localizes in momentum space, the momentum distribution literally freezes, a remarkable ...

Quantum many-body localisation (MBL) describes a regime in which interacting quantum particles fail to achieve thermal equilibrium due to the combined effects of disorder and strong quantum ...

Quantum many-body physics explores emergent properties of many interacting quantum particles, which often have no counterpart in classical systems. Of particular interest is the study of ...

That is, until about 16 years ago when it was argued that disorder in a quantum system was thought to result in many-body localization (MBL). “This phenomenon, which was recognized by the Lars Onsager ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In this work we demonstrate that nonrandom mechanisms that lead to single-particle localization may also lead to many-body localization, even ...

Physicists have found an answer to the longstanding physics question: How do interparticle interactions affect dynamical localization? Physicists at UC Santa Barbara and the University of Maryland, ...