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The main contribution of this thesis is the introduction of a family of models that have a disorder-free mechanism for localization. In this chapter we define the models and reveal an exact mapping to free fermions using a local \(\mathbb {Z}_2\) gauge symmetry. This mapping unveils the mechanism for localization and allows us to perform efficient large-scale numerical simulations to demonstrate the localization behaviour, which we do in the subsequent chapters.
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Smith, A. (2019). The Model. In: Disorder-Free Localization. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20851-6_2
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