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This article aims at popularizing some aspects of "quantum chaos", in particular the study of eigenmodes of classically chaotic systems, in the semiclassical (or high frequency) limit.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-01-22 Nalini Anantharaman , Stéphane Nonnenmacher

Recently a class of quantum systems exhibiting weak ergodicity breaking has attracted much attention. These systems feature a special band of eigenstates called quantum many-body scar states in the energy spectrum. In this work we study the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-12-28 Ke Huang , Yu Wang , Xiao Li

Formation of quantum scars in many-body systems provides a novel mechanism for enhancing coherence of weakly entangled states. At the same time, coherence of edge modes in certain symmetry protected topological (SPT) phases can persist away…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-07-30 Jared Jeyaretnam , Jonas Richter , Arijeet Pal

We consider the Faraday surface waves of a fluid in a container with a non-integrable boundary shape. We show that, at sufficiently low frequencies, the wave patterns are ``scars'' selected by the instability of the corresponding periodic…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Oded Agam , Boris L. Altshuler

The theory of quantum scarring -- a remarkable violation of quantum unique ergodicity -- rests on two complementary pillars: the existence of unstable classical periodic orbits and the so-called quasimodes, i.e., the non-ergodic states that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-03 Christopher J. Turner , Jean-Yves Desaules , Kieran Bull , Zlatko Papić

Recent realization of a kinetically-constrained chain of Rydberg atoms by Bernien et al. [Nature 551, 579 (2017)] resulted in the observation of unusual revivals in the many-body quantum dynamics. In our previous work [arXiv:1711.03528]…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-10-31 C. J. Turner , A. A. Michailidis , D. A. Abanin , M. Serbyn , Z. Papić

Teleportation of quantum information over long distances requires robust entanglement on the macroscopic scale. The construction of highly energetic eigenstates with tunable long-range entanglement can provide a new medium for information…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-23 Bhaskar Mukherjee , Christopher J. Turner , Marcin Szyniszewski , Arijeet Pal

Ergodicity, a fundamental concept in statistical mechanics, is not yet a fully understood phenomena for closed quantum systems, particularly its connection with the underlying chaos. In this review, we consider a few examples of collective…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-02-20 Sudip Sinha , Sayak Ray , Subhasis Sinha

We study the correspondence between phase-space localization of quantum (quasi-)energy eigenstates and classical correlation decay, given by Ruelle-Pollicott resonances of the Frobenius-Perron operator. It will be shown that scarred…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Christopher Manderfeld

We study the spin-1 XY model on a hypercubic lattice in $d$ dimensions and show that this well-known nonintegrable model hosts an extensive set of anomalous finite-energy-density eigenstates with remarkable properties. Namely, they exhibit…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-10-03 Michael Schecter , Thomas Iadecola

We present an interpretation of scar states and quantum revivals as weakly "broken" representations of Lie algebras spanned by a subset of eigenstates of a many-body quantum system. We show that the PXP model, describing…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-05-06 Kieran Bull , Jean-Yves Desaules , Zlatko Papic

Quantum many-body scars (QMBS) offer a mechanism for weak ergodicity breaking, enabling non-thermal dynamics to persist in a chaotic many-body system. While most studies of QMBS focus on anomalous eigenstate properties or long-lived…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-06 Shane Dooley , Luke Johnston , Patrick Gormley , Beth Campbell

We propose a class of non-integrable quantum spin chain models that exhibit quantum many-body scars even in the presence of disorder. With the use of the so-called Onsager symmetry, we construct such scarred models for arbitrary spin…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-27 Naoyuki Shibata , Nobuyuki Yoshioka , Hosho Katsura

Quantum many-body scar states are highly excited eigenstates of many-body systems that exhibit atypical entanglement and correlation properties relative to typical eigenstates at the same energy density. Scar states also give rise to…

Quantum many-body scarred systems contain both thermal and non-thermal scar eigenstates in their spectra. When these systems are quenched from special initial states which share high overlap with scar eigenstates, the system undergoes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-02 Harvey Cao , Dimitris G. Angelakis , Daniel Leykam

We show that a quantum scar state, an atypical eigenstate breaking eigenstate thermalization hypothesis embedded in a many-body energy spectrum, can be constructed in flat band systems. The key idea of our construction is to make use of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-01-04 Yoshihito Kuno , Tomonari Mizoguchi , Yasuhiro Hatsugai

Quantum many-body scars are energy eigenstates which fail to reproduce thermal expectation values of local observables, in systems where the rest of the many-body spectrum fulfils eigenstate thermalization. Experimental observation of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-11 Peter Græns Larsen , Anne E. B. Nielsen , André Eckardt , Francesco Petiziol

We construct a class of quantum many-body systems hosting an $\mathfrak{su}(3)$-invariant scar subspace, extending the conventional paradigm of quantum many-body scars beyond equally spaced spectra and single-directional tower structures.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-22 Chihiro Matsui

Quantum many-body scars represent a form of weak ergodicity breaking that highlights the unusual physics of thermalization in quantum systems. Understanding scar formation promises insight into the connection between classical statistical…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-03-10 William N Faugno , Hosho Katsura , Tomoki Ozawa

Towers of quantum many-body scars are sets of highly-excited eigenstates of nonintegrable Hamiltonians whose dynamics shows athermal behavior and persistent oscillations in time. The preparation of such states is, however, challenging due…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-16 Lorenzo Gotta , Manas Kulkarni , Gabriele Perfetto