Localization-protected quantum order

@article{Huse2013LocalizationprotectedQO,
  title={Localization-protected quantum order},
  author={David A. Huse and Rahul M. Nandkishore and Vadim Oganesyan and Arijeet Pal and S.L.Sondhi},
  journal={Physical Review B},
  year={2013},
  volume={88},
  pages={014206}
}
Closed quantum systems with quenched randomness exhibit many-body localized regimes wherein they do not equilibrate, even though prepared with macroscopic amounts of energy above their ground states. We show that such localized systems can order, in that individual many-body eigenstates can break symmetries or display topological order in the infinite-volume limit. Indeed, isolated localized quantum systems can order even at energy densities where the corresponding thermally equilibrated system… 
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