Lieb-Robinson bound for constrained many-body localization (2011.11363v5)

Abstract: Study how quantum information propagates through spacetime manifold provides a means of identifying, distinguishing, and classifying novel phases of matter fertilized by many-body effects in strongly interacting systems in and out of equilibrium. Via a fuller characterization of key aspects regarding dynamic behaviors of information, we perform such an analysis on constrained many-body localization -- a newly proposed fully localized state under infinite-interaction limit -- in quasirandom Rydberg blockade spin chain models using thermal out-of-time-order commutators (OTOCs). The OTOC light cones predict a hitherto unknown Lieb-Robinson bound for constrained many-body localization, which is qualitatively different from that of unconstrained many-body Anderson insulators stabilized at weak-interaction limit. Our corroborated numeric and analytic study suggests that constrained many-body localization is a distinct dynamical eigenstate phase whose nonergodicity is beyond local-integral-of-motion phenomenology. Together, these findings consolidate the hierarchy of unconventional quantum dynamics encompassing constrained, unconstrained, and diagonal many-body-localized regimes.