Scratching the surface of many-body localization

Series
Math Physics Seminar
Time
Friday, April 6, 2018 - 3:00pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles Room 202
Speaker
Günter Stolz – University of Alabama, Birmingham
Organizer
Michael Loss
Localization properties of quantum many-body systems have been a very active subject in theoretical physics in the most recent decade. At the same time, finding rigorous approaches to understanding many-body localization remains a wide open challenge. We will report on some recent progress obtained for the case of quantum spin chains, where joint work with A. Elgart and A. Klein has provided a proof of several manifestations of MBL for the droplet spectrum of the disordered XXZ chain.