Many-Body Localization and the Emergence of Quantum Darwinism.

Nicolás Mirkin, Diego A Wisniacki
Author Information
  1. Nicolás Mirkin: Departamento de Física "J. J. Giambiagi" and IFIBA, FCEyN, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires 1428, Argentina. ORCID
  2. Diego A Wisniacki: Departamento de Física "J. J. Giambiagi" and IFIBA, FCEyN, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires 1428, Argentina. ORCID

Abstract

Quantum Darwinism (QD) is the process responsible for the proliferation of redundant information in the environment of a quantum system that is being decohered. This enables independent observers to access separate environmental fragments and reach consensus about the system's state. In this work, we study the effect of disorder in the emergence of QD and find that a highly disordered environment is greatly beneficial for it. By introducing the notion of lack of redundancy to quantify objectivity, we show that it behaves analogously to the entanglement entropy (EE) of the environmental eigenstate taken as an initial state. This allows us to estimate the many-body mobility edge by means of our Darwinistic measure, implicating the existence of a critical degree of disorder beyond which the degree of objectivity rises the larger the environment is. The latter hints the key role that disorder may play when the environment is of a thermodynamic size. At last, we show that a highly disordered evolution may reduce the spoiling of redundancy in the presence of intra-environment interactions.

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Grants

  1. PIP 12201 50100493CO/National Scientific and Technical Research Council
  2. 20020130100406BA/UBACyT
  3. PICT-2016-1056/Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica

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