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In an isolated many-body localized system, initial quantum correlations can remain local rather than spread throughout the system. But experimental studies of such systems are difficult because of unavoidable interactions with the environment, which ultimately spoil the effect. A new method for controlling a photon bath demonstrates a first step toward understanding the effects of this coupling and extrapolating to fully isolated systems.
Lüschen et al. (Tue,) studied this question.