MIT News March 8, 2018
A team of researchers in the US (MIT, Dartmouth College) combined NMR techniques with their knowledge of the spin dynamics in their crystal, whose geometry approximately confines the evolution to linear spin chains. It allowed them to figure out a metric, average correlation length, for how many spins are connected to each other in a chain and determine if the interaction is winning or disorder is winning keeping the system in a more quantum localized state. The method represents a possible advance toward the ability to control localization. Because many-body localization preserves information and prevents it from becoming scrambled, it has the potential for memory applications… read more. TECHNCAL ARTICLEÂ
The NMR spectrometer in the Quantum Engineering Group (QEG) lab. Image: Paola Cappellaro