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The recent discovery of persistent revivals in the Rydberg-atom quantum simulator has revealed a weakly ergodicity-breaking mechanism dubbed quantum many-body scars, which are a set of nonthermal states embedded in otherwise thermal…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-08-02 Qianqian Chen , Shuai A. Chen , Zheng Zhu

Quantum many-body scars (QMBS) represent a weak ergodicity-breaking phenomenon that defies the common scenario of thermalization in closed quantum systems. They are often regarded as a many-body analog of quantum scars (QS) -- a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-24 Keita Omiya

Recent experiments on Rydberg atom arrays have found evidence of anomalously slow thermalization and persistent density oscillations, which have been interpreted as a many-body analog of the phenomenon of quantum scars. Periodic dynamics…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-05 Ana Hudomal , Ivana Vasić , Nicolas Regnault , Zlatko Papić

The recent observations of persistent revivals in the Rydberg atom chain have revealed a weak ergodicity breaking mechanism known as quantum many-body scars, which is typically a collection of states with low entanglement embedded in…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-12-14 Qianqian Chen , Zheng Zhu

The ongoing quest for understanding nonequilibrium dynamics of complex quantum systems underpins the foundation of statistical physics as well as the development of quantum technology. Quantum many-body scarring has recently opened a window…

Quantum many-body scars enable persistent non-ergodic dynamics in otherwise thermalizing systems, yet their stabilization typically relies on fine-tuned initial states or engineered Hamiltonian perturbations. Here we show that lattice…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-05-08 Erick Parra Verde , Kevin P. Mours , Johannes Zeiher , Ana Hudomal , Jad C. Halimeh

Quantum many-body scars (QMBS) constitute a new quantum dynamical regime in which rare "scarred" eigenstates mediate weak ergodicity breaking. One open question is to understand the most general setting in which these states arise. In this…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-02-09 Christopher M. Langlett , Zhi-Cheng Yang , Julia Wildeboer , Alexey V. Gorshkov , Thomas Iadecola , Shenglong Xu

Quantum many-body scarring (QMBS) -- a recently discovered form of weak ergodicity breaking in strongly-interacting quantum systems -- presents opportunities for mitigating thermalization-induced decoherence in quantum information…

Quantum many-body scars in Rydberg atom arrays have thus far only been observed on bipartite lattices, leaving open the question of whether and how they survive frustration, and what the appropriate initial states are that lead to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Jean-Yves Desaules , Aron Kerschbaumer , Marko Ljubotina , Maksym Serbyn

Quantum many-body scars are atypical nonthermal states embedded in the chaotic spectrum that evade conventional ergodicity. We show that asymptotically AdS mini-boson stars provide a holographic realization of scar-like states. Their…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-05 Yan Liu , Ya-Wen Sun , Yuan-Tai Wang

Experimental observation of coherent oscillations in a Rydberg atom chain [Bernien et al., Nature 551, 579 (2017)] has led to the discovery of quantum many-body scars (QMBS) which is a new paradigm for ergodicity-breaking. The experimental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-21 Sashikanta Mohapatra , Ajit C. Balram

Quantum many-body scars have received much recent attention for being both intriguing non-ergodic states in otherwise quantum chaotic systems and promising candidates to encode quantum information efficiently. So far, these studies have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-16 Antonio M. García-García , Zhongling Lu , Lucas Sá , Jacobus J. M. Verbaarschot

We theoretically propose a quantum scar affecting the motion of three interacting particles in a circular trap. We numerically calculate the quantum eigenstates of the system and show that some of them are scarred by a classically unstable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 D. J. Papoular , B. Zumer

Quantum many-body scars are non-thermal excited eigenstates of non-integrable Hamiltonians, which could support coherent revival dynamics from special initial states when scars form an equally spaced tower in the energy spectrum. For open…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-16 He-Ran Wang , Dong Yuan , Shun-Yao Zhang , Zhong Wang , Dong-Ling Deng , L. -M. Duan

Chaos makes isolated systems of many interacting particles quickly thermalize and forget about their past. Here, we show that quantum mechanics hinders chaos in many-body systems: although the quantum eigenstates are thermal and strongly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-23 Andrea Pizzi , Long-Hei Kwan , Bertrand Evrard , Ceren B. Dag , Johannes Knolle

In this work, we undertake the problem of formally introducing a notion of quantum many-body scarring in open quantum systems governed by the Lindblad equation. To this goal, we rely on the commutant-algebra framework for the description of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 Lorenzo Gotta

We introduce a novel non-equilibrium phase -- the quantum many-body scar (QMBS) phase -- that emerges in non-Hermitian many-body dynamics when scarred wavefunctions are selectively stabilized via non-Hermitian driving. Projective…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-31 Keita Omiya , Yuya O Nakagawa

Kinetic constraints in quantum many-body systems strongly restrict the accessible Hilbert space, giving rise to highly nontrivial dynamical behavior. In recent years, such systems have attracted growing interest as they provide insight into…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-27 Arkaprava Sil , Sudipto Singha Roy

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 scarring is a paradigm of weak ergodicity breaking arising due to the presence of special nonthermal many-body eigenstates that possess low entanglement entropy, are equally spaced in energy, and concentrate in certain…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-05-17 Jad C. Halimeh , Luca Barbiero , Philipp Hauke , Fabian Grusdt , Annabelle Bohrdt