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Exact Quantum Many-Body Scars in 2D Quantum Gauge Models

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2025-10-09 v2 Statistical Mechanics Quantum Physics

Abstract

Quantum many-body scars (QMBS) serve as important examples of ergodicity-breaking phenomena in quantum many-body systems. Despite recent extensive studies, exact QMBS are rare in dimensions higher than one. In this paper, we study a two-dimensional quantum Z2\mathbb{Z}_2 gauge model that is dual to a two-dimensional spin-1/21/2 XY model defined on bipartite graphs. We identify the exact eigenstates of the XY model with a tower structure as exact QMBS. Exploiting the duality transformation, we show that the exact QMBS of the XY model (and XXZ model) after the transformation are the exact QMBS of the dual Z2\mathbb{Z}_2 gauge model. This construction is versatile and has potential applications for finding new QMBS in other higher-dimensional models.

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@article{arxiv.2505.21921,
  title  = {Exact Quantum Many-Body Scars in 2D Quantum Gauge Models},
  author = {Yuan Miao and Linhao Li and Hosho Katsura and Masahito Yamazaki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.21921},
  year   = {2025}
}

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39 pages, 19 figures

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