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Disorder enhanced quantum many-body scars in Hilbert crystals

Statistical Mechanics 2021-06-09 v1 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks Quantum Gases Quantum Physics

Abstract

We consider a model arising in facilitated Rydberg chains with positional disorder which features a Hilbert space with the topology of a dd-dimensional hypercube. This allows for a straightforward interpretation of the many-body dynamics in terms of a single particle one on the Hilbert space and provides an explicit link between the many-body and single particle scars. Exploiting this perspective, we show that an integrability-breaking disorder enhances the scars followed by inhibition of the dynamics due to strong localization of the eigenstates in the large disorder limit. Next, mapping the model to the spin-1/2 XX Heisenberg chain offers a simple geometrical perspective on the recently proposed Onsager scars [PRL 124{\bf 124}, 180604 (2020)], which can be identified with the scars on the edge of the Hilbert space. This makes apparent the origin of their insensitivity to certain types of disorder perturbations.

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@article{arxiv.2012.05310,
  title  = {Disorder enhanced quantum many-body scars in Hilbert crystals},
  author = {Bart van Voorden and Matteo Marcuzzi and Kareljan Schoutens and Jiří Minář},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.05310},
  year   = {2021}
}

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6+10 pages

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