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Spatiotemporal heterogeneity of entanglement in many-body localized systems
KTH, School of Engineering Sciences (SCI), Physics. Scuola Int Super Studi Avanzati SISSA, Via Bonomea 265, I-34136 Trieste, Italy.;Abdus Salam Int Ctr Theoret Phys, Str Costiera 11, I-34151 Trieste, Italy.;INFN Sez Trieste, Via Valerio 2, I-34127 Trieste, Italy..ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0141-1878
Scuola Int Super Studi Avanzati SISSA, Via Bonomea 265, I-34136 Trieste, Italy.;Abdus Salam Int Ctr Theoret Phys, Str Costiera 11, I-34151 Trieste, Italy.;INFN Sez Trieste, Via Valerio 2, I-34127 Trieste, Italy..
Max Planck Inst Phys Komplexer Syst, Nothnitzer Str 38, D-01187 Dresden, Germany.;Univ Augsburg, Inst Phys, Ctr Elect Correlat & Magnetism, Theoret Phys 3, D-86135 Augsburg, Germany..
Max Planck Inst Phys Komplexer Syst, Nothnitzer Str 38, D-01187 Dresden, Germany.;Univ Napoli Federico II, Scuola Super Meridionale, Largo San Marcellino 10, I-80138 Naples, Italy..
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2022 (English)In: Physical Review B, ISSN 2469-9950, E-ISSN 2469-9969, Vol. 105, no 18, article id 184202Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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We propose a spatiotemporal characterization of the entanglement dynamics in many-body localized (MBL) systems, which exhibits a striking resemblance to 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 spatiotemporal 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 broadly distributed and more spatially correlated, as disorder increases or the energy of the initial state decreases. Through this spatiotemporal 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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American Physical Society (APS) , 2022. Vol. 105, no 18, article id 184202
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-316787DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.105.184202ISI: 000832871400003Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85130349120OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-316787DiVA, id: diva2:1691337
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