Activating many-body localization in solids by driving with light

Abstract

Due to the presence of phonons, many body localization (MBL) does not occur in disordered solids, even if disorder is strong. Local conservation laws characterizing an underlying MBL phase decay due to the coupling to phonons. Here we show that this decay can be compensated when the system is driven out of equilibrium. The resulting variations of the local temperature provide characteristic fingerprints of an underlying MBL phase. We consider a one-dimensional disordered spin-chain which is weakly coupled to a phonon bath and weakly irradiated by white light. The irradiation has weak effects in the ergodic phase. However, if the system is in the MBL phase irradiation induces strong temperature variations of order 1 despite the coupling to phonons. Temperature variations can be used similar to an order parameter to detect MBL phases, the phase transition and an MBL correlation length.

arXiv comment7 pages, 6 figures

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