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most citedLocalization Properties of the XY Spin Chain. A review of mathematical results with an eye toward Many-Body Localization

44 citations · 154 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

math-ph2026

Bottleneck Effects and Harmonic-Type Velocity Bounds for Periodic Quantum Walks

Houssam Abdul-Rahman, Thomas A. Jackson, Darren C. Ong

We prove explicit upper bounds on the propagation velocity of one-dimensional quantum walks with periodic coins of arbitrary period. We treat two complementary settings. First, in…

math-ph2025

Exponential Suppression of Transport in Electric Quantum Walks

Houssam Abdul-Rahman, Christopher Cedzich, Günter Stolz +1

We establish exact scalings for the maximal group velocity of translation-invariant quantum walks in periodic electric fields. Our main result shows that the maximal group velocity…

math-ph2025

Sharp Polynomial Velocity Decay Bounds for Multidimensional Periodic Schrödinger Operators

Houssam Abdul-Rahman, Jake Fillman, Christoph Fischbacher +1

We investigate periodic Schrödinger operators in arbitrary dimensions in the large coupling regime. Our results establish that both the Lieb--Robinson velocity and the asymptotic v…

math-ph2024

Entanglement bounds for single-excitation energy eigenstates of quantum oscillator systems

Houssam Abdul-Rahman, Robert Sims, Günter Stolz

We provide an analytic method for estimating the entanglement of the non-gaussian energy eigenstates of disordered harmonic oscillator systems. We invoke the explicit formulas of t…

math-ph2024

Slow propagation velocities in Schrödinger operators with large periodic potential

Houssam Abdul-Rahman, Mohammed Darras, Christoph Fischbacher +1

Schrödinger operators with periodic potential have generally been shown to exhibit ballistic transport. In this work, we investigate if the propagation velocity, while positive, ca…

math-ph2023

Exponentially decaying velocity bounds of quantum walks in periodic fields

Houssam Abdul-Rahman, Günter Stolz

We consider a class of discrete-time one-dimensional quantum walks, associated with CMV unitary matrices, in the presence of a local field. This class is parametrized by a transmis…

math-ph2021★ 2 cited

Dynamical Evolution of Entanglement in Disordered Oscillator Systems

Houssam Abdul-Rahman

We study the non-equilibrium dynamics of a disordered quantum system consisting of harmonic oscillators in a -dimensional lattice. If the system is sufficiently localized, we sh…

math-ph2019★ 7 cited

Entanglement bounds in the XXZ quantum spin chain

Houssam Abdul-Rahman, Christoph Fischbacher, Günter Stolz

We consider the XXZ spin chain, characterized by an anisotropy parameter , and normalized such that the ground state energy is and the ground state given by the all spins…

math-ph2019★ 24 cited

A class of two-dimensional AKLT models with a gap

Houssam Abdul-Rahman, Marius Lemm, Angelo Lucia +2

The AKLT spin chain is the prototypical example of a frustration-free quantum spin system with a spectral gap above its ground state. Affleck, Kennedy, Lieb, and Tasaki also conjec…

math-ph2018★ 4 cited

On the Regime of Localized Excitations for Disordered Oscillator Systems

Houssam Abdul-Rahman, Robert Sims, Günter Stolz

We study quantum oscillator lattice systems with disorder, in arbitrary dimension, requiring only partial localization of the associated effective one-particle Hamiltonian. This le…

math-ph2017★ 7 cited

Entanglement of a class of non-Gaussian states in disordered harmonic oscillator systems

Houssam Abdul-Rahman

For disordered harmonic oscillator systems over the -dimensional lattice, we consider the problem of finding the bipartite entanglement of the uniform ensemble of the energy eig…

math-ph2017

Correlations in disordered quantum harmonic oscillator systems: The effects of excitations and quantum quenches

Houssam Abdul-Rahman, Robert Sims, Günter Stolz

We prove spatial decay estimates on disorder-averaged position-momentum correlations in a gapless class of random oscillator models. First, we prove a decay estimate on dynamic cor…

math-ph2016★ 44 cited

Localization Properties of the XY Spin Chain. A review of mathematical results with an eye toward Many-Body Localization

Houssam Abdul-Rahman, Bruno Nachtergaele, Robert Sims +1

We review several aspects of Many-Body Localization-like properties exhibited by the disordered XY chains: localization properties of the energy eigenstates and thermal states, pro…

math-ph2015★ 19 cited

Entanglement Dynamics of Disordered Quantum XY Chains

Houssam Abdul-Rahman, Bruno Nachtergaele, Robert Sims +1

We consider the dynamics of the quantum XY chain with disorder under the general assumption that the expectation of the eigenfunction correlator of the associated one-particle Hami…

cs.CV2015★ 24 cited

Fast and numerically stable circle fit

Houssam Abdul-Rahman, Nikolai Chernov

We develop a new algorithm for fitting circles that does not have drawbacks commonly found in existing circle fits. Our fit achieves ultimate accuracy (to machine precision), avoid…

math-ph2015★ 23 cited

A uniform area law for the entanglement of eigenstates in the disordered XY chain

Houssam Abdul-Rahman, Günter Stolz

We consider the isotropic or anisotropic XY spin chain in the presence of a transversal random magnetic field, with parameters given by random variables. It is shown that eigenfunc…