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Recently a class of quantum systems exhibiting weak ergodicity breaking has attracted much attention. These systems feature a special band of eigenstates called quantum many-body scar states in the energy spectrum. In this work we study the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-12-28 Ke Huang , Yu Wang , Xiao Li

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

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

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 dynamics in certain kinetically-constrained systems can display a strong sensitivity to the initial condition, wherein some initial states give rise to persistent quantum revivals -- a type of weak ergodicity breaking known as…

The PXP model is paradigmatic in the field of quantum many-body scars. This model has a number of zero-energy eigenstates that is exponentially large in system size. Lower bounds on the number of zero-energy eigenstates are obtained for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-07 Wouter Buijsman

Experiments performed on strongly interacting Rydberg atoms have revealed surprising persistent oscillations of local observables. These oscillations have been attributed to a special set of non-ergodic states, referred to as quantum…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-09-29 Ian Mondragon-Shem , Maxim G. Vavilov , Ivar Martin

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

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 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

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

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 are atypical energy eigenstates of chaotic quantum many-body systems that prevent certain special non-equilibrium initial conditions from thermalizing. We point out that quantum many-body scars exist for any…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-09 Dhiman Bhowmick , Vir B. Bulchandani , Wen Wei Ho

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

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 develop an analytical approach for the description of quantum many-body scars in PXP models. We show that the scarred dynamics in the PXP model on a complete bipartite graph can be interpreted as a one-dimensional chiral scattering…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-14 Bennet Windt , Hannes Pichler

We theoretically propose a quantum scar affecting the motion of three interacting particles in a circular trap. We numerically calculate the quantum eigenstates of the system and show that some of them are scarred by a classically unstable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 D. J. Papoular , B. Zumer

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

We investigate the emergence of quantum scars in a general ensemble of random Hamiltonians (of which the PXP is a particular realization), that we refer to as quantum local random networks. We find a class of scars, that we call…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-06-28 Federica Maria Surace , Marcello Dalmonte , Alessandro Silva

To provide a physical example of quantum scars, we study the many-body scars in the spin-1 Kitaev chain where the so-called PXP Hamiltonian is exactly embedded in the spectra. Regarding the conserved quantities, the Hilbert space is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-02-11 Wen-Long You , Zhuan Zhao , Jie Ren , Gaoyong Sun , Liangsheng Li , Andrzej M. Oleś