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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 117, Issue 24, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.240601
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- Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science
- NSF
- AFOSR-MURI
- Sloan Foundation
- [DMR-1507141]
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1507141] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Materials Research [1507141] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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We examine localization phenomena associated with generic, high entropy, states of a translation-invariant, one-dimensional spin ladder. At early times, we find slow growth of entanglement entropy consistent with the known phenomenology of many-body localization in disordered, interacting systems. At intermediate times, however, anomalous diffusion sets in, leading to full spin polarization decay on an exponentially activated time scale. We identify a single length scale which parametrically controls both the spin transport times and the apparent divergence of the susceptibility to spin glass ordering. Ultimately, at the latest times, the exponentially slow anomalous diffusion gives way to diffusive thermal behavior. We dub the intermediate dynamical behavior, which persists over many orders of magnitude in time, quasi-many-body localization.
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