Origin and emergent features of many-body dynamical localization

Abstract: The question of whether interactions can break dynamical localization in quantum kicked rotor systems has been the subject of a long-standing debate. Here, we introduce an extended mapping from the kicked Lieb-Liniger model to an effective lattice model with long-range couplings and reveal two universal features: on-site pseudorandomness and rapidly decaying couplings in the center-of-mass momentum. For finite contact interactions, the long-range coupling between relative momenta obeys an algebraic decay behavior with a crossover of its decay exponent as the interaction increases. Similar behavior occurs in the Fock basis, underscoring the robustness and distinct many-body characteristics of dynamical localization. Analysis of the generalized fractal dimension and level-spacing ratio also supports these findings, highlighting the presence of near integrability and multifractality in different regions of parameter space. Our results offer an explanation for the occurrence of many-body dynamical localization, particularly in strongly correlated quantum gases, and are anticipated to generalize to systems of many particles.