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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 notion of many-body quantum scars is associated with special eigenstates, usually concentrated in certain parts of Hilbert space, that give rise to robust persistent oscillations in a regime that globally exhibits thermalization. Here…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-07-05 Quirin Hummel , Klaus Richter , Peter Schlagheck

The recent discovery of quantum many-body scar states has revealed the possibility of having states with low entanglement that violate the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis in nonintegrable systems. Such states with low entanglement…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-01-03 Ken K. W. Ma , A. Volya , Kun Yang

We introduce and study several classes of quantum spin models with multi-body interactions that exhibit quantum many-body scars. The models are constructed by two different methods: one exploiting boundary states in integrable spin chains…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-10-04 Kazuyuki Sanada , Yuan Miao , Hosho Katsura

We demonstrate the presence of anomalous high-energy eigenstates, or many-body scars, in $U(1)$ quantum link and quantum dimer models on square and rectangular lattices. In particular, we consider the paradigmatic Rokhsar-Kivelson…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-05-09 Saptarshi Biswas , Debasish Banerjee , Arnab Sen

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 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

We consider the spectrum of a $U(1)$ quantum link model where gauge fields are realized as $S=1/2$ spins and demonstrate a new mechanism for generating quantum many-body scars (high-energy eigenstates that violate the eigenstate…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-06-08 Debasish Banerjee , Arnab Sen

Quantum many-body scars are energy eigenstates which fail to reproduce thermal expectation values of local observables, in systems where the rest of the many-body spectrum fulfils eigenstate thermalization. Experimental observation of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-11 Peter Græns Larsen , Anne E. B. Nielsen , André Eckardt , Francesco Petiziol

We construct few-body, interacting, nonlocal Hamiltonians with a quantum scar state in an otherwise thermalizing many-body spectrum. In one dimension, the embedded state is a critical state, and in two dimensions, the embedded state is a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-12-04 N. S. Srivatsa , Julia Wildeboer , Alexander Seidel , Anne E. B. Nielsen

Quantum many-body scars (QMBS) are exotic many-body states that exhibit anomalous non-thermal behavior in an otherwise ergodic system. In this work, we demonstrate a simple, scalable and intuitive construction of QMBS in a kinetically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-23 Fan Yang , Matteo Magoni , Hannes Pichler

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

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

A quantum many-body scar system usually contains a special non-thermal subspace (approximately) decoupled from the rest of the Hilbert space. In this work, we propose a general structure called deformed symmetric spaces for the decoupled…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-03-01 Jie Ren , Chenguang Liang , Chen Fang

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) represent a mechanism for weak ergodicity breaking, characterized by the coexistence of atypical non-thermal eigenstates within an otherwise thermalizing many-body spectrum. In this work, we revisit the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-25 Sashikanta Mohapatra , Sanjay Moudgalya , Ajit C. Balram

Quantum many-body scar states are special eigenstates of nonintegrable models with distinctive entanglement features that give rise to infinitely long-lived coherent dynamics under quantum quenches from certain initial states. We elaborate…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-12-07 Julia Wildeboer , Christopher M. Langlett , Zhi-Cheng Yang , Alexey V. Gorshkov , Thomas Iadecola , Shenglong Xu

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

Formation of quantum scars in many-body systems provides a novel mechanism for enhancing coherence of weakly entangled states. At the same time, coherence of edge modes in certain symmetry protected topological (SPT) phases can persist away…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-07-30 Jared Jeyaretnam , Jonas Richter , Arijeet Pal

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