Data used in the figures of the paper to appear under the title "Dynamical localization transition of string breaking in quantum spin chains". All data are written in 'csv' files.
This repository provides the figure data and numerical simulation codes supplement to the manuscript “Dynamical freezing and enhanced magnetometry in an interacting spin ensemble” (arXiv:2507.22982). Contents:--Main_text_figures--Extended_Data_figures Each folder contains the numerical or experimental data used to generate the corresponding figures in the manuscript. All figures can be reproduced by straightforward plotting of the included .csv files. A short description of each dataset is provided within the file headers. --Exact_diagonalization_code--Discrete_truncated_Wigner_approximation_code These directories contain the codes used in the numerical simulations presented in the paper. Each code package includes a detailed README file explaining the workflow, parameters, and usage.
The fission of a string connecting two charges is an astounding phenomenon in confining gauge theories. The dynamics of this process have been studied intensively in recent years, with plenty of numerical results yielding a dichotomy: the confining string can decay relatively fast or persist up to extremely long times. Here, we put forward a dynamical localization transition as the mechanism underlying this dichotomy. To this end, we derive an effective string breaking description in the light-meson sector of a confined spin chain and show that the problem can be regarded as a dynamical localization transition in Fock space. Fast and suppressed string breaking dynamics are identified with delocalized and localized behavior, respectively. We then provide a further reduction of the dynamical string breaking problem onto a quantum impurity model, where the string is represented as an "impurity" immersed in a meson bath. It is shown that this model features a localization-delocalization transition, giving a general and simple physical basis to understand the qualitatively distinct string breaking regimes. These findings are directly relevant for a wider class of confining lattice models in any dimension and could be realized on present-day Rydberg quantum simulators.