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Any local Hamiltonian with ferromagnetic quantum many-body scars has a generalized Shiraishi-Mori form

Quantum Physics 2026-03-30 v2 Strongly Correlated Electrons Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

Quantum many-body scars (QMBS) are nonthermal eigenstates embedded in otherwise thermal spectra. A broad class of exact QMBS is realized as fixed-momentum magnon states above a ferromagnetic reference state. Here we prove a structural theorem for this class. Specifically, we show that any local Hamiltonian hosting such ``ferromagnetic scar states'' necessarily admits a decomposition into a Zeeman term and terms containing local projectors that annihilate the scar states locally. This result establishes that an appropriate generalization of the Shiraishi--Mori construction is essentially exhaustive for ferromagnetic QMBS and provides a unified structural explanation for the recurrent appearance of projector-based interactions and equally spaced scar towers across a broad family of exact scar Hamiltonians.

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@article{arxiv.2601.11806,
  title  = {Any local Hamiltonian with ferromagnetic quantum many-body scars has a generalized Shiraishi-Mori form},
  author = {Keita Omiya},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.11806},
  year   = {2026}
}

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