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Rydberg atom arrays have emerged as a novel platform exhibiting rich quantum many-body physics and offering promise for universal quantum computation. The Rydberg blockade effect plays an essential role in establishing many-body…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-09-04 Yanting Cheng , Hui Zhai

Rydberg atom arrays have emerged as a powerful platform for experimental research and a challenging subject for theoretical investigation in quantum science. In this study, we investigate the finite-temperature properties of two-dimensional…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-03-25 Yuzhou Han , Hao Zhang , Lixin He

We show that the rainbow state, which has volume law entanglement entropy for most choices of bipartitions, can be embedded in a many-body localized spectrum. For a broad range of disorder strengths in the resulting model, we numerically…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-09-08 N. S. Srivatsa , Hadi Yarloo , Roderich Moessner , Anne E. B. Nielsen

The rapid advancement of quantum science and technology has established Rydberg atom arrays as a premier platform for exploring quantum many-body physics with exceptional precision and controllability. Traditionally, each atom is modeled as…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-07-23 Shuo Zhang , Langxuan Chen , Pengfei Zhang

Recent studies of interacting systems of quantum spins, ultracold atoms and correlated fermions have shed a new light on how isolated many-body systems can avoid rapid equilibration to their thermal state. It has been shown that many such…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-08-10 Zlatko Papić

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 scars correspond to enhanced probability densities along unstable classical periodic orbits. In recent years, research on quantum scars has extended to various systems including the many-body regime. In this work we focus on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-03 Simo Selinummi , Joonas Keski-Rahkonen , Fartash Chalangari , Esa Räsänen

Although entanglement is a key resource for quantum-enhanced metrology, not all entanglement is useful. For example in the process of many-body thermalisation, bipartite entanglement grows rapidly, naturally saturating to a volume law. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-01 Shane Dooley , Silvia Pappalardi , John Goold

The far-from-equilibrium dynamics of certain interacting quantum systems still defy precise understanding. One example is the so-called quantum many-body scars (QMBSs), where a set of energy eigenstates evade thermalization to give rise to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-20 Yuchen Meng , Songtai Lv , Yang Liu , Zefan Tan , Erhai Zhao , Haiyuan Zou

We describe the zero-temperature phase diagram of a model of a two-dimensional square-lattice array of neutral atoms, excited into Rydberg states and interacting via strong van der Waals interactions. Using the density-matrix…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-03-11 Rhine Samajdar , Wen Wei Ho , Hannes Pichler , Mikhail D. Lukin , Subir Sachdev

Arrays of ultracold neutral atoms, also known as Rydberg atom arrays, are rapidly developing into a powerful and versatile platform for quantum simulation. However, theoretical predictions about the bulk quantum phases of matter present in…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-04-22 Yash M. Lokare , Matthew J. Coley-O'Rourke

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

We argue that the quenched ultracold plasma presents an experimental platform for studying quantum many-body physics of disordered systems in the long-time and finite energy-density limits. We consider an experiment that quenches a plasma…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-03-21 John Sous , Edward Grant

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

Kramers-Wannier duality, a hallmark of the Ising model, has recently gained renewed interest through its reinterpretation as a non-invertible symmetry with a state-level action. Using sequential quantum circuits (SQC), we argue that this…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-16 Weslei B. Fontana , Fabrizio G. Oliviero , Yi-Ping Huang

Over the last decade, systems of individually-controlled neutral atoms, interacting with each other when excited to Rydberg states, have emerged as a promising platform for quantum simulation of many-body problems, in particular spin…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-02-19 Antoine Browaeys , Thierry Lahaye

The exploration of large-scale many-body phenomena in quantum materials has produced many important experimental discoveries, including novel states of entanglement, topology and quantum order as found for example in quantum spin ices,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-05-01 John Sous , Edward Grant

In most quantum sensing schemes, interactions between the constituent particles of the sensor are expected to lead to thermalisation and degraded sensitivity. However, recent theoretical and experimental work has shown that the phenomenon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-22 Shane Dooley

Many systems that host exact quantum many-body scars (towers of energy-equidistant low entanglement eigenstates) are governed by a Hamiltonian that splits into a Zeeman term and a sum of local terms that annihilate the scar subspace. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-10-12 Keita Omiya , Markus Müller

Nonintegrable many-body quantum systems typically thermalize at long times through the mechanism of quantum chaos. However, some exceptional systems, such as those harboring quantum scars, break thermalization, serving as testbeds for…