Localization and integrability breaking in weakly interacting Floquet circuits

Abstract

We present a family of Floquet circuits that can interpolate between non-interacting qubits, free propagation, generic interacting, and dual-unitary dynamics. We identify the operator entanglement entropy of the two-qubit gate as a good quantitative measure of the interaction strength. We test the persistence of localization in the vicinity of the non-interacting point by probing spectral statistics, decay of autocorrelators, and measuring entanglement growth. The finite-size analysis suggests that the many-body localized regime does not persist in the thermodynamic limit. Instead, our results are compatible with an integrability-breaking phenomenon.

12 pages, 11 figures

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