Person:
Sels, Dries

Profile Picture

Email Address

AA Acceptance Date

Birth Date

Research Projects

Organizational Units

Job Title

Last Name

Sels

First Name

Dries

Name

Sels, Dries

Filters

20231

Settings

Author's Publications: search.filters.isAuthorOfPublication.01f6108d-b277-44e2-b72d-46f85a15106c

Search Results

Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
  • No Thumbnail Available
    Publication
    Probing the Onset of Quantum Avalanches in a Many-Body Localized System
    (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2023-01-26) Leonard, Julian; Kim, Sooshin; Rispoli, Matthew; Lukin, Alexander; Schittko, Robert; Kwan, Joyce; Demler, Eugene; Sels, Dries; Greiner, Markus
    Strongly correlated systems can exhibit unexpected phenomena when brought in a state far from equilibrium. An example is many-body localization, which prevents generic interacting systems from reaching thermal equilibrium even at long times. The stability of the many-body-localized phase has been predicted to be hindered by the presence of small thermal inclusions that act as a bath, leading to the delocalization of the entire system through an avalanche propagation mechanism. Here we study the dynamics of a thermal inclusion of variable size when it is coupled to a many-body-localized system. We find evidence for accelerated transport of the thermal inclusion into the localized region. We monitor how the avalanche spreads through the localized system and thermalizes it site by site by measuring the site-resolved entropy over time. Furthermore, we isolate the strongly correlated bath-induced dynamics with multipoint correlations between the bath and the system. Our results have implications on the robustness of many-body localized systems and their critical behavior.