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The phenomenon of quantum many-body scars has received widespread attention both in theoretical and experimental physics in recent years due to its unique physical properties. In this paper, based on the $su(2)$ algebraic relations, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-11 Jia-Wei Wang , Xiang-Fa Zhou , Guang-Can Guo , Zheng-Wei Zhou

Quantum many-body scars (QMBSs) are a novel paradigm for the violation of the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis -- Hamiltonians of these systems exhibit mid-spectrum eigenstates that are equidistant in energy and which possess low…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-02-14 Pierre-Gabriel Rozon , Kartiek Agarwal

Estimating physical properties of quantum states from measurements is one of the most fundamental tasks in quantum science. In this work, we identify conditions on states under which it is possible to infer the expectation values of all…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-01 Cambyse Rouzé , Daniel Stilck França

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

We discover and characterize strong quantum scars, or eigenstates resembling classical periodic orbits, in two-dimensional quantum wells perturbed by local impurities. These scars are not explained by ordinary scar theory, which would…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-07 Perttu J. J. Luukko , Byron Drury , Anna Klales , Lev Kaplan , Eric J. Heller , Esa Räsänen

We envisage many-body systems that can be described by quantum spin-chain Hamiltonians with a trivial separable eigenstate. For generic Hamiltonians, such a state represents a quantum scar. We show that, typically, a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-29 Saverio Bocini , Maurizio Fagotti

Quantum many-body scars (QMBS) represent a mechanism for weak ergodicity breaking, characterized by the coexistence of atypical non-thermal eigenstates within an otherwise thermalizing many-body spectrum. In this work, we revisit the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-25 Sashikanta Mohapatra , Sanjay Moudgalya , Ajit C. Balram

We construct several models with multiple quantum many-body scars (QMBS) using integrable boundary states (IBS). Specifically, we focus on the tilted N\'eel states, which are parametrized IBS for the spin-1/2 Heisenberg chain, and show that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-31 Kazuyuki Sanada , Yuan Miao , Hosho Katsura

We investigate the meson excitations (particle-antiparticle bound states) in quantum many-body scars of a 1D $\mathbb{Z}_2$ lattice gauge theory coupled to a dynamical spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ chain as a matter field. By introducing a string…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-06-11 Zi-Yong Ge , Yu-Ran Zhang , Franco Nori

We study the nature of the ergodicity-breaking "quantum many-body scar" states that appear in the PXP model describing constrained Rabi oscillations. For a {wide class of bipartite lattices} of Rydberg atoms, we reveal that the nearly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-24 Keita Omiya , Markus Müller

Generic quantum many-body systems are expected to thermalize, scrambling initial coherence while local observables relax to equilibrium values. Weak ergodicity breaking, often associated with quantum many-body scarring of homogeneous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-25 Aron Kerschbaumer , Jean-Yves Desaules , Maksym Serbyn

We reveal a feature of quantum scarring in systems with many particles: Quantum scars, living densely near an unstable periodic orbit, must be compensated by corresponding antiscarred states suppressed there to establish the uniformity of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-22 Zhongling Lu , Anton M. Graf , Eric J. Heller , Joonas Keski-Rahkonen , Ceren B. Dag

Our current understanding of quantum chaos in many-body quantum systems hinges on the random matrix theory(RMT) behavior of eigenstates and their energy level statistics. Although RMT has been remarkably successful in describing `coarse'…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-05 Christopher M. Langlett , Joaquin F. Rodriguez-Nieva

The discovery of Quantum Many-Body Scars (QMBS) both in Rydberg atom simulators and in the Affleck-Kennedy-Lieb-Tasaki (AKLT) spin-1 chain model, have shown that a weak violation of ergodicity can still lead to rich experimental and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-07-13 Sanjay Moudgalya , B. Andrei Bernevig , Nicolas Regnault

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

Hilbert space fragmentation (HSF) is a mechanism for generating quantum many-body scar (QMBS), which provides a route to weakly break ergodicity. The zero-energy QMBSs widely exist across various systems due to the intertwining of chiral…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-26 Li Zhang , Yongguan Ke , Chaohong Lee

Quantum many-body states that frequently appear in physics often obey an entropy scaling law, meaning that an entanglement entropy of a subsystem can be expressed as a sum of terms that scale linearly with its volume and area, plus a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-26 Isaac H. Kim

Quantum scars are nonthermal eigenstates that prevent thermalization of initial states with weight on the scars. When the scar states are equally spaced in energy, superpositions of scars show oscillating local observables that can be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-10-16 Nicholas O'Dea , Adithya Sriram

Quantum many-body scars, long-lived excited states of correlated quantum chaotic systems that evade thermalization, are of great fundamental and technological interest. We create novel scar states in a bosonic 1D quantum gas of dysprosium…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-04-28 Wil Kao , Kuan-Yu Li , Kuan-Yu Lin , Sarang Gopalakrishnan , Benjamin L. Lev

Quantum dynamics in certain kinetically-constrained systems can display a strong sensitivity to the initial condition, wherein some initial states give rise to persistent quantum revivals -- a type of weak ergodicity breaking known as…