Dynamical l-bits in Stark many-body localization

Thivan Gunawardana, Berislav Buča

Published 2021-10-25, updated 2022-01-19Version 2

Stark many-body localized (SMBL) systems have been shown both numerically and experimentally to have Bloch many-body oscillations, quantum many-body scars, and fragmentation in the large field tilt limit. Likewise, they are believed to show localization similar to disordered MBL. We explain and analytically prove all these observations by rigorously showing the existence of novel algebraic structures that are exponentially stable in time, which we call dynamical l-bits. Moreover, we show that many-body Bloch oscillations persist even at infinite temperature for exponentially long-times. We numerically confirm our results by studying the prototypical Stark MBL model of a tilted XXZ spin chain. Our work explains why thermalization was observed in a recent 2D tilted experiment. As dynamical l-bits are stable, localized and quantum coherent excitations, our work opens new possibilities for quantum information processing in Stark MBL systems.