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Quantum many-body scars (QMBS) appear in a flat-band model with interactions on the saw-tooth lattice. The flat-band model includes a compact support localized eigenstates, called compact localized state (CLS). Some characteristic many-body…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-08-25 Yoshihito Kuno , Tomonari Mizoguchi , Yasuhiro Hatsugai

Quantum many-body scar is a recently discovered phenomenon weakly violating eigenstate thermalization hypothesis, and it has been extensively studied across various models. However, experimental realizations are mainly based on constrained…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-26 Zexian Guo , Bobo Liu , Yu Gao , Ang Yang , Junlin Wang , Jinlou Ma , Lei Ying

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…

We introduce a class of spinless fermion models that exhibit quantum many-body scars (QMBS) originating from kinetic constraints in the form of density-assisted hopping. The models can be defined on any lattice in any dimension and allow…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-13 Kensuke Tamura , Hosho Katsura

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 scar (QMBS) in kinetically constrained quantum systems challenges the conventional eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH). We develop an effective open-system description for constrained dynamics and introduce the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-09 Jia-wei Wang , Xiang-Fa Zhou , Guang-Can Guo , Zheng-Wei Zhou

Unstable periodic orbits (UPOs) play a key role in the theory of chaos, constituting the "skeleton" of classical chaotic systems and "scarring" the eigenstates of the corresponding quantum system. Recently, nonthermal many-body eigenstates…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-11-26 Bertrand Evrard , Andrea Pizzi , Simeon I. Mistakidis , Ceren B. Dag

Quantum many-body scars (QMBS) are exceptional eigenstates that defy thermalization, enabling long-lived coherent dynamics in strongly interacting systems. However, their stability under perturbations remains inadequately understood. In…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-26 Meng-Yun Mao , Zhixiang Sun , Wen-Long You

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

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

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

Quantum many-body scarring (QMBS) -- a recently discovered form of weak ergodicity breaking in strongly-interacting quantum systems -- presents opportunities for mitigating thermalization-induced decoherence in quantum information…

We discover a variety of exact quantum many-body scars in higher-spin kinetically constrained models, through the recently developed DMRG-S algorithm [Zhang et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 020402]. Specifically, for the higher-spin PXP model…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-07-14 Dong Yuan , Shun-Yao Zhang , Dong-Ling Deng

Quantum many-body scars (QMBS) offer a mechanism for weak ergodicity breaking, enabling non-thermal dynamics to persist in a chaotic many-body system. While most studies of QMBS focus on anomalous eigenstate properties or long-lived…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-06 Shane Dooley , Luke Johnston , Patrick Gormley , Beth Campbell

Persistent revivals recently observed in Rydberg atom simulators have challenged our understanding of thermalization and attracted much interest to the concept of quantum many-body scars (QMBSs). QMBSs are non-thermal highly excited…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-06 Aron Kerschbaumer , Marko Ljubotina , Maksym Serbyn , Jean-Yves Desaules

Quantum many-body scars are atypical nonthermal states embedded in the chaotic spectrum that evade conventional ergodicity. We show that asymptotically AdS mini-boson stars provide a holographic realization of scar-like states. Their…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-05 Yan Liu , Ya-Wen Sun , Yuan-Tai Wang

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

Quantum many-body scars provide a controlled form of weak ergodicity breaking, in which structured nonthermal eigenstates coexist with a thermalizing many-body spectrum. We introduce a qubit-level route to exact scars based on the intrinsic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Han-Ze Li , Jian-Xin Zhong

We report the observation of unconventional transport phenomena in a spin-1 model that supports a tower of quantum many-body scars, and we discuss their properties uncovering their peculiar nature. In quantum many-body systems, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-31 Gianluca Morettini , Luca Capizzi , Maurizio Fagotti , Leonardo Mazza

Quantum many-body scars are atypical, highly nonthermal eigenstates embedded in a sea of thermal eigenstates that have been observed in, for example, kinetically constrained quantum many-body models. These special eigenstates are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-08-16 Wouter Buijsman , Yevgeny Bar Lev