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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 ongoing quest for understanding nonequilibrium dynamics of complex quantum systems underpins the foundation of statistical physics as well as the development of quantum technology. Quantum many-body scarring has recently opened a window…

Rydberg atom array has been established as one appealing platform for quantum simulation and quantum computation. Recent experimental development of trapping and controlling two-species atoms using optical tweezer arrays has brought more…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-08-29 Lei-Yi-Nan Liu , Shun-Yao Yu , Shi-Rong Peng , Jie Sheng , Su Yi , Peng Xu , Shou-Shu Gong , Tao Shi , Jian Cui

Mechanisms that give rise to coherent quantum dynamics, such as quantum many-body scars, have recently attracted much interest as a way of controlling quantum chaos. However, identifying the presence of quantum scars in general many-body…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Jie Ren , Andrew Hallam , Lei Ying , Zlatko Papić

We present a mathematical theory of metastable pure states in closed many-body quantum systems with finite-dimensional Hilbert space. Given a Hamiltonian, a pure state is defined to be metastable when all sufficiently local operators either…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-03-21 Chao Yin , Federica M. Surace , Andrew Lucas

Generic quantum many-body systems are expected to thermalize, scrambling initial coherence while local observables relax to equilibrium values. Weak ergodicity breaking, often associated with quantum many-body scarring of homogeneous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-25 Aron Kerschbaumer , Jean-Yves Desaules , Maksym Serbyn

Quantum many-body scar states are many-body states with finite energy density in non-integrable models that do not obey the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis. Recent works have revealed "towers" of scar states that are exactly known and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-05-21 Daniel K. Mark , Cheng-Ju Lin , Olexei I. Motrunich

Presently, noisy intermediate-scale quantum computers encounter significant technological challenges that make it impossible to generate large amounts of entanglement. We leverage this technological constraint as a resource and demonstrate…

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 generally expect quantum systems to thermalize and satisfy the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH), which states that finite energy density eigenstates are thermal. However, some systems, such as many-body localized systems and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-09-08 Eli Chertkov , Bryan K. Clark

Towers of quantum many-body scars are sets of highly-excited eigenstates of nonintegrable Hamiltonians whose dynamics shows athermal behavior and persistent oscillations in time. The preparation of such states is, however, challenging due…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-16 Lorenzo Gotta , Manas Kulkarni , Gabriele Perfetto

We consider a coupled top model describing two interacting large spins, which is studied semiclassically as well as quantum mechanically. This model exhibits variety of interesting phenomena such as quantum phase transition (QPT), dynamical…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-09-02 Debabrata Mondal , Sudip Sinha , S. Sinha

In this work, we undertake the problem of formally introducing a notion of quantum many-body scarring in open quantum systems governed by the Lindblad equation. To this goal, we rely on the commutant-algebra framework for the description of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 Lorenzo Gotta

Quantum many-body scarring is a paradigm of weak ergodicity breaking arising due to the presence of special nonthermal many-body eigenstates that possess low entanglement entropy, are equally spaced in energy, and concentrate in certain…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-05-17 Jad C. Halimeh , Luca Barbiero , Philipp Hauke , Fabian Grusdt , Annabelle Bohrdt

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

One of the promising applications of digital quantum processors is the simulation of many-body quantum systems. They have been already used to investigate several ergodicity violating mechanisms, which were initially discovered in synthetic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Leonard Logarić , John Goold , Shane Dooley

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

The presence of quantum scars, athermal eigenstates of a many-body Hamiltonian with finite energy density, leads to absence of ergodicity and long-time coherent dynamics in closed quantum systems starting from simple initial states. Such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-02 Bhaskar Mukherjee , Sourav Nandy , Arnab Sen , Diptiman Sen , K. Sengupta

Quantum many-body scarred systems exhibit atypical dynamical behavior, evading thermalization and featuring periodic state revivals. In this Letter, we investigate the impact of projective measurements on the dynamics in the scar subspace…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-31 Alessio Paviglianiti , Alessandro Silva

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