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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

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

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

We study the eigenstate properties of a nonintegrable spin chain that was recently realized experimentally in a Rydberg-atom quantum simulator. In the experiment, long-lived coherent many-body oscillations were observed only when the system…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-12-04 Thomas Iadecola , Michael Schecter , Shenglong Xu

Quantum many-body scarred systems contain both thermal and non-thermal scar eigenstates in their spectra. When these systems are quenched from special initial states which share high overlap with scar eigenstates, the system undergoes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-02 Harvey Cao , Dimitris G. Angelakis , Daniel Leykam

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.…

Quantum scars are enhancements of quantum probability density along classical periodic orbits. We study the recently discovered phenomenon of strong, perturbation-induced quantum scarring in the two-dimensional harmonic oscillator exposed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-03 J. Keski-Rahkonen , P. J. J. Luukko , L. Kaplan , E. J. Heller , E. Räsänen

Quantum many-body scars (QMBS) consist of a few low-entropy eigenstates in an otherwise chaotic many-body spectrum, and can weakly break ergodicity resulting in robust oscillatory dynamics. The notion of QMBS follows the original…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-01-17 Bertrand Evrard , Andrea Pizzi , Simeon I. Mistakidis , Ceren B. Dag

While the chiral linear Luttinger liquid is integrable via bosonization, its non-linear counterpart does not admit for an analytic solution. In this work, we find a sub-extensive number of exact eigenstates for a large family of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-01-28 Frank Schindler , Nicolas Regnault , B. Andrei Bernevig

Although most quantum systems thermalize locally on short time scales independent of initial conditions, recent developments have shown this is not always the case. Lattice geometry and quantum mechanics can conspire to produce constrained…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-06-23 Kyungmin Lee , Arijeet Pal , Hitesh J. Changlani

Quantum many-body scars (QMBS) are exceptional energy eigenstates of quantum many-body systems associated with violations of thermalization for special non-equilibrium initial states. Their various systematic constructions require…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-02-20 Alessio Lerose , Tommaso Parolini , Rosario Fazio , Dmitry A. Abanin , Silvia Pappalardi

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 consider a quantum lattice spin model featuring exact quasiparticle towers of eigenstates with low entanglement at finite size, known as quantum many-body scars (QMBS). We show that the states in the neighboring part of the energy…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-11-13 Lorenzo Gotta , Sanjay Moudgalya , Leonardo Mazza

Frustration in magnetic materials arising from competing exchange interactions can prevent the system from adopting long-range magnetic order and can instead lead to a diverse range of novel quantum and topological states with exotic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-11-16 J. Khatua , B. Sana , A. Zorko , M. Gomilšek , K. Sethupathi M. S. Ramachandra Rao , M. Baenitz , B. Schmidt , P. Khuntia

Quantum many-body scars have been put forward as counterexamples to the Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis. These atypical states are observed in a range of correlated models as long-lived oscillations of local observables in quench…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-10-13 Hongzheng Zhao , Adam Smith , Florian Mintert , Johannes Knolle

Chaos makes isolated systems of many interacting particles quickly thermalize and forget about their past. Here, we show that quantum mechanics hinders chaos in many-body systems: although the quantum eigenstates are thermal and strongly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-23 Andrea Pizzi , Long-Hei Kwan , Bertrand Evrard , Ceren B. Dag , Johannes Knolle

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

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

The complexity of highly excited eigenstates is a central theme in nonequilibrium many-body physics, underpining questions of thermalization, classical simulability, and quantum information structure. In this work, considering the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-04 Sabhyata Gupta , Piotr Sierant , Luis Santos , Paolo Stornati

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