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We show that unconventional relaxation dynamics of special initial states in one-dimensional arrays of Rydberg atoms produce non-generic decay of the initial-state survival probability (SP) at very early times. Using the PXP hamiltonian as…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-06 Martin Schnee , Roya Radgohar , Stefanos Kourtis

We identify quantum many-body scars in the transverse field quantum Ising model on a ladder. We make explicit how the corresponding (mid spectrum, low entanglement) many-body eigenstates can be approximated by injecting quasi-particle…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-01 Bart van Voorden , Jiří Minář , Kareljan Schoutens

We present a class of quantum dimer models on the kagome lattice with full translational invariance that feature a quantum many-body scar state of analytically known entanglement properties within their spectra. Using exact diagonalization…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-09-29 Julia Wildeboer , Alexander Seidel , N. S. Srivatsa , Anne E. B. Nielsen , Onur Erten

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

It has recently been established that quantum many-body scarring can prevent the thermalisation of some isolated quantum systems, starting from certain initial states. One of the first models to show this was the so-called PXP Hamiltonian,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-27 Shane Dooley , Graham Kells

Quantum scars refer to eigenstates with enhanced probability density along unstable classical periodic orbits (POs). First predicted 40 years ago, scars are special eigenstates that counterintuitively defy ergodicity in quantum systems…

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

Understanding the behavior of quantum many-body systems under decoherence is essential for developing robust quantum technologies. Here, we examine the fate of weak ergodicity breaking in systems hosting quantum many-body scars when subject…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Jin-Lou Ma , Zexian Guo , Yu Gao , Zlatko Papić , Lei Ying

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 scars are special eigenstates that violate the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis while residing at finite energy density along with thermalizing eigenstates. The spin-1 XY model is known to host a family of such…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-02 Himadri Halder

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

The concept of quantum many-body scars has recently been put forward as a route to describe weak ergodicity breaking and violation of the Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis. We propose a simple setup to generate quantum many-body scars in…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-04-29 Hongzheng Zhao , Joseph Vovrosh , Florian Mintert , Johannes Knolle

We introduce a variational manifold of simple tensor network states for the study of a family of constrained models that describe spin-1/2 systems as realized by Rydberg atom arrays. Our manifold permits analytical calculation via…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-13 Joey Li , Giuliano Giudici , Hannes Pichler

In this Letter, we report first exact volume-entangled Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen--type scar states hosted by PXP and related Hamiltonians corresponding to various geometric configurations of Rydberg-blockaded atom systems, including the most…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-07 Andrew N. Ivanov , Olexei I. Motrunich

Based on the PXP model adapted for Rydberg-blockaded chains, we investigate dynamics of topological domain walls between different quantum many-body scar states of $\mathbb{Z}_2$ symmetry. It is found that, the domain walls not only possess…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-15 Guanhua Chen , Weijie Huang , Yao Yao

We introduce the concept of ergodicity and explore its deviation caused by quantum scars in an isolated quantum system, employing a pedagogical approach based on a toy model. Quantum scars, originally identified as traces of classically…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-02 Sudip Sinha , S. Sinha

We investigate the quantum dynamics of the 1D spinless Fermi-Hubbard model with a linear-tilted potential. Surprisingly in a strong resonance regime, we show that the model can be described by the kinetically constrained effective…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-03-01 Wei-Jie Huang , Yu-Biao Wu , Guang-Can Guo , Wu-Ming Liu , Xu-Bo Zou

Controlling non-equilibrium quantum dynamics in many-body systems is an outstanding challenge as interactions typically lead to thermalization and a chaotic spreading throughout Hilbert space. We experimentally investigate non-equilibrium…

The eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH) provides a fundamental mechanism for emergent statistical mechanics in isolated chaotic quantum systems, asserting that individual energy eigenstates behave as pseudorandom vectors within an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Ning Sun , Yanting Cheng

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