Many-body localization in a tilted potential in two dimensions
arXiv:2202.04948 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.105.134204
Abstract
Thermalization in many-body systems can be inhibited by the application of a linearly increasing potential, which is known as Stark many-body localization. Here we investigate the fate of this phenomenon on a two-dimensional disorder-free lattice with up to sites. Similar to the one-dimensional case, "density-polarized" regions can act as bottlenecks for transport and thermalization on laboratory timescales. However, compared to the one-dimensional case, a substantially stronger potential gradient is needed to prevent thermalization when an extra spatial dimension is involved. The origin of this difference and implications for experiments are discussed. We argue that delocalization is generally favored for typical states in two-dimensional Stark many-body systems, although nonergodicity can still be observed for a specific choice of initial states, such as those probed in experiments.
arXiv comment5 pages, 5 figures, appendix with 5 pages and 9 figures. Comments welcome
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