Ideal quantum glass transitions: Many-body localization without quenched disorder
- International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), via Bonomea 265, 34136 Trieste (Italy)
- The Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics, Strada Costiera 11, 34151 Trieste (Italy)
We explore the possibility for translationally invariant quantum many-body systems to undergo a dynamical glass transition, at which ergodicity and translational invariance break down spontaneously, driven entirely by quantum effects. In contrast to analogous classical systems, where the existence of such an ideal glass transition remains a controversial issue, a genuine phase transition is predicted in the quantum regime. This ideal quantum glass transition can be regarded as a many-body localization transition due to self-generated disorder. Despite their lack of thermalization, these disorder-free quantum glasses do not possess an extensive set of local conserved operators, unlike what is conjectured for many-body localized systems with strong quenched disorder.
- OSTI ID:
- 22308254
- Journal Information:
- AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1610, Issue 1; Conference: TIDS15: 15. international conference on transport in interacting disordered systems, Sant Feliu de Guixols (Spain), 1-5 Sep 2013; Other Information: (c) 2014 AIP Publishing LLC; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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