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We propose an exact construction for atypical excited states of a class of non-integrable quantum many-body Hamiltonians in one dimension (1D), two dimensions (2D), and three dimensins (3D) that display area law entanglement entropy. These…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-12-12 Seulgi Ok , Kenny Choo , Christopher Mudry , Claudio Castelnovo , Claudio Chamon , Titus Neupert

The high level of control and precision achievable in current synthetic quantum matter setups has enabled first attempts at quantum-simulating various intriguing phenomena in condensed matter physics, including those probing thermalization…

A quantum many-body scar is an eigenstate of a chaotic many-body Hamiltonian that exhibits two seemingly incongruous properties: its energy eigenvalue corresponds to a high temperature, yet its entanglement structure resembles that of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-16 Phillip C. Burke , Shane Dooley

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

We develop a novel framework to build quantum many-body scar states in bipartite systems characterized by perfect correlation between the Hamiltonians governing the two sides. By means of a Krylov construction, we build an interaction term…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-03 Debarghya Chakraborty , Dario Rosa

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 analyze the Hilbert space connectivity of the $L$ site PXP-model by constructing the Hamiltonian matrices via a Gray code numbering of basis states. The matrices are all formed out of a single Hamiltonian-path backbone and entries on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-15 Bhilahari Jeevanesan

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…

We present a mathematical theory of metastable pure states in closed many-body quantum systems with finite-dimensional Hilbert space. Given a Hamiltonian, a pure state is defined to be metastable when all sufficiently local operators either…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-03-21 Chao Yin , Federica M. Surace , Andrew Lucas

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 find exponentially many exact quantum many-body scar states in a two-dimensional PXP model -- an effective model for a two-dimensional Rydberg atom array in the nearest-neighbor blockade regime. Such scar states are remarkably simple…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-07-01 Cheng-Ju Lin , Vladimir Calvera , Timothy H. Hsieh

Dynamical signatures of quantum chaos are observed in the survival probability of different initial states, in a system of cold atoms trapped in a linear chain with site noise and open boundary conditions. It is shown that chaos is present…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-13 Carlos Diaz Mejia , Javier de la Cruz , Sergio Lerma-Hernandez , Jorge G. Hirsch

We discuss a construction of quantum many-body scars in the context of holography. We consider two-dimensional conformal field theories and use their dynamical symmetries, naturally realized through the Virasoro algebra, to construct…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-15 Diego Liska , Vladimir Gritsev , Ward Vleeshouwers , Jiří Minář

Quantum many-body scarring is believed to be the mechanism behind long-lived coherent oscillations in interacting Rydberg atom chains. These persistent oscillations are due to the large overlap of the many-body scars with certain initial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-07 Shane Dooley , Graham Kells

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

One of the outstanding problems in non-equilibrium physics is to precisely understand when and how physically relevant observables in many-body systems equilibrate under unitary time evolution. General equilibration results show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-18 Henrik Wilming , Marcel Goihl , Ingo Roth , Jens Eisert

Non-equilibrium properties of quantum materials present many intriguing properties, among them athermal behavior, which violates the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis. Such behavior has primarily been observed in disordered systems. More…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-01 Kyungmin Lee , Ronald Melendrez , Arijeet Pal , Hitesh J. Changlani

Revivals of initial non-equilibrium states is an ever-present concern for the theory of dynamic thermalization in many-body quantum systems. Here we consider a nonintegrable lattice of interacting spins 1/2 and show how to construct a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-24 Igor Ermakov , Boris V. Fine

The dynamics of a single quantum state embedded in one or several (quasi-)continua is one of the most studied phenomena in quantum mechanics. In this work we investigate its discrete analogue and consider short and long time dynamics based…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-06 Jan Petter Hansen , Konrad Tywoniuk

Presently, noisy intermediate-scale quantum computers encounter significant technological challenges that make it impossible to generate large amounts of entanglement. We leverage this technological constraint as a resource and demonstrate…