Henrik P. Lüschen

TL;DR: This experiment experimentally observed this nonergodic evolution for interacting fermions in a one-dimensional quasirandom optical lattice and identified the MBL transition through the relaxation dynamics of an initially prepared charge density wave.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify the many-body localization transition through the relaxation dynamics of an initially-prepared charge density wave, and connect this dependence to the ubiquitous logarithmic growth of entanglement entropy characterizing the generic manybody localized phase.

TL;DR: A strikingly different behavior is found between many-body localization and Anderson localization: in the interacting case any coupling between the tubes leads to a delocalization of the entire system.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors acknowledge support from Technical University of Munich - Institute for Advanced Study, funded by the German Excellence Initiative and the European Union FP7 under grant agreement 291763, from the DFG grant no. KN 1254/1-1, the European Commission (UQUAM, AQuS) and the Nanosystems Initiative Munich (NIM).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors experimentally explore the thermalization dynamics of a localized system in the presence of controlled dissipation and find that photon scattering results in a stretched exponential decay of an initial density pattern with a rate that depends linearly on the scattering rate.