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An oscillatory pattern in the smoothed quantum spectrum, which is unique for single-particle motions in a reflection-asymmetric superdeformed oscillator potential, is investigated by means of the semiclassical theory of shell structure.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-02-01 Ken-ichiro Arita , Kenichi Matsuyanagi

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

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

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

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

The anomalously strong scarring of wavefunctions found in numerical studies of quantum wells in a tilted magnetic field is shown to be due to special properties of the classical dynamics of this system. A certain subset of periodic orbits…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 E. E. Narimanov , A. Douglas Stone

We consider a coupled top model describing two interacting large spins, which is studied semiclassically as well as quantum mechanically. This model exhibits variety of interesting phenomena such as quantum phase transition (QPT), dynamical…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-09-02 Debabrata Mondal , Sudip Sinha , S. Sinha

We show that enhanced wavefunction localization due to the presence of short unstable orbits and strong scarring can rely on completely different mechanisms. Specifically we find that in quantum networks the shortest and most stable orbits…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 Holger Schanz , Tsampikos Kottos

As the name indicates, a periodic orbit is a solution for a dynamical system that repeats itself in time. In the regular regime, periodic orbits are stable, while in the chaotic regime, they become unstable. The presence of unstable…

The eigenstates of a chaotic system can be enhanced along underlying unstable periodic orbits in so-called quantum scars, making it more likely for a particle launched along one such orbits to be found still there at long times. Unstable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-09 Andrea Pizzi

Quantum many-body scars are atypical energy eigenstates of chaotic quantum many-body systems that prevent certain special non-equilibrium initial conditions from thermalizing. We point out that quantum many-body scars exist for any…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-09 Dhiman Bhowmick , Vir B. Bulchandani , Wen Wei Ho

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

Correspondence between classical periodic orbits and quantum shell structure is investigated for a reflection-asymmetric deformed oscillator model as a function of quadrupole and octupole deformation parameters. Periodic orbit theory…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Ken-ichiro Arita , Kenichi Matsuyanagi

In quantum chaos, the spectral statistics generally follows the predictions of Random Matrix Theory (RMT). A notable exception is given by scar states, that enhance probability density around unstable periodic orbits of the classical…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2022-07-19 Domenico Lippolis

Some of the most enduring questions in physics--including the quantum measurement problem and the quantization of gravity--involve the interaction of a quantum system with a classical environment. Two linearly coupled harmonic oscillators…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rachael M. McDermott , Ian H. Redmount

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

We numerically investigate the stability of exceptional periodic classical trajectories in rather generic chaotic many-body systems and explore a possible connection between these trajectories and exceptional nonthermal quantum eigenstates…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-14 Igor Ermakov , Oleg Lychkovskiy , Boris V. Fine

We study Hilbert space fragmentation and quantum scars in quantum spin systems with Ising interactions. The system consists of two sets of quantum spins, A and B. As the parent system, set A is an Ising model on arbitrary lattices with a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-06 E. S. Ma , Z. Song

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

Motivated by recent observations of ergodicity breaking due to Hilbert space fragmentation in 1D Fermi-Hubbard chains with a tilted potential [Scherg et al., arXiv:2010.12965], we show that the same system also hosts quantum many-body scars…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-08-16 Jean-Yves Desaules , Ana Hudomal , Christopher J. Turner , Zlatko Papić