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Given that any subsystem of a closed out-of-equilibrium quantum system is an open quantum system, its dynamics (reduced from the full system's unitary evolution) can be either Markovian (memory-less) or non-Markovian, with the latter…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Aditya Banerjee

Certain wave functions of non-interacting quantum chaotic systems can exhibit "scars" in the fabric of their real-space density profile. Quantum scarred wave functions concentrate in the vicinity of unstable periodic classical trajectories.…

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

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 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…

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

Weakly interacting quasiparticles play a central role in the low-energy description of many phases of quantum matter. At higher energies, however, quasiparticles cease to be well-defined in generic many-body systems due to a proliferation…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-01-12 Anushya Chandran , Thomas Iadecola , Vedika Khemani , Roderich Moessner

Highly excited eigenstates of quantum many-body systems are typically featureless thermal states. Some systems, however, possess a small number of special, low-entanglement eigenstates known as quantum scars. We introduce a quantum-inspired…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-02 Tomasz Szołdra , Piotr Sierant , Maciej Lewenstein , Jakub Zakrzewski

Quantum many-body scarred systems exhibit atypical dynamical behavior, evading thermalization and featuring periodic state revivals. In this Letter, we investigate the impact of projective measurements on the dynamics in the scar subspace…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-31 Alessio Paviglianiti , Alessandro Silva

Quantum many-body scars are rare eigenstates hidden within the chaotic spectra of many-body systems, representing a weak violation of the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH). Identifying these scars, as well as other non-thermal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-12 Jiajin Feng , Bingzhi Zhang , Zhi-Cheng Yang , Quntao Zhuang

To provide a physical example of quantum scars, we study the many-body scars in the spin-1 Kitaev chain where the so-called PXP Hamiltonian is exactly embedded in the spectra. Regarding the conserved quantities, the Hilbert space is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-02-11 Wen-Long You , Zhuan Zhao , Jie Ren , Gaoyong Sun , Liangsheng Li , Andrzej M. Oleś

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

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

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 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

In this work, we present new, highly non-trivial area-law exact zero-energy eigenstates of the one-dimensional (1D) PXP and related models. We formulate sufficient conditions for a matrix product state to represent an exact zero-energy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-21 Andrew N. Ivanov , Olexei I. Motrunich

Rydberg atom array has been established as one appealing platform for quantum simulation and quantum computation. Recent experimental development of trapping and controlling two-species atoms using optical tweezer arrays has brought more…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-08-29 Lei-Yi-Nan Liu , Shun-Yao Yu , Shi-Rong Peng , Jie Sheng , Su Yi , Peng Xu , Shou-Shu Gong , Tao Shi , Jian Cui

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

We analyze quantum dynamics of strongly interacting, kinetically constrained many-body systems. Motivated by recent experiments demonstrating surprising long-lived, periodic revivals after quantum quenches in Rydberg atom arrays, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-31 Wen Wei Ho , Soonwon Choi , Hannes Pichler , Mikhail D. Lukin

Scar states are special many-body eigenstates that weakly violate the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH). Using the explicit formalism of the Lanczos algorithm, usually known as the forward scattering approximation in this context,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-30 Budhaditya Bhattacharjee , Samudra Sur , Pratik Nandy