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We construct a class of quantum many-body systems hosting an $\mathfrak{su}(3)$-invariant scar subspace, extending the conventional paradigm of quantum many-body scars beyond equally spaced spectra and single-directional tower structures.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-22 Chihiro Matsui

Unlike classical system, understanding ergodicity from phase space mixing remains unclear for interacting quantum systems due to the absence of phase space trajectories. By considering an interacting spin model known as kicked coupled top,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-09-01 Debabrata Mondal , Sudip Sinha , Subhasis Sinha

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 propose a class of non-integrable quantum spin chain models that exhibit quantum many-body scars even in the presence of disorder. With the use of the so-called Onsager symmetry, we construct such scarred models for arbitrary spin…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-27 Naoyuki Shibata , Nobuyuki Yoshioka , Hosho Katsura

We derive general results relating revivals in the dynamics of quantum many-body systems to the entanglement properties of energy eigenstates. For a D-dimensional lattice system of N sites initialized in a low-entangled and short-range…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-11 Álvaro M. Alhambra , Anurag Anshu , Henrik Wilming

We introduce a family of non-integrable 1D lattice models that feature robust periodic revivals under a global quench from certain initial product states, thus generalizing the phenomenon of many-body scarring recently observed in Rydberg…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-07-24 Kieran Bull , Ivar Martin , Z. Papić

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

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

In contrast with extended Bloch waves, a single particle can become spatially localized due to the so-called skin effect originating from non-Hermitian pumping. Here we show that in kinetically-constrained many-body systems, the skin effect…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-09-04 Ruizhe Shen , Fang Qin , Jean-Yves Desaules , Zlatko Papić , Ching Hua Lee

Quantum scars are non-thermal eigenstates characterized by low entanglement entropy, initially detected in systems subject to nearest-neighbor Rydberg blockade, the so called PXP model. While most of these special eigenstates elude an…

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

In this letter, we study the PXP Hamiltonian with an external magnetic field that exhibits both quantum scar states and quantum criticality. It is known that this model hosts a series of quantum many-body scar states violating quantum…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-03-21 Zhiyuan Yao , Lei Pan , Shang Liu , Hui Zhai

The quantum simulation of gauge theories on synthetic quantum matter devices has gained a lot of traction in the last decade, making possible the observation of a range of exotic quantum many-body phenomena. In this work, we consider the…

We present a novel extension of the concept of scars for the wave functions of classically chaotic few-body systems of identical particles with rotation and permutation symmetry. Generically there exist manifolds in classical phase space…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-30 T. Papenbrock , T. H. Seligman , H. A. Weidenmueller

As a paradigm of weak ergodicity breaking in disorder-free nonintegrable models, quantum many-body scars (QMBS) can offer deep insights into the thermalization dynamics of gauge theories. Having been first discovered in a spin-$1/2$ quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-05-08 Jean-Yves Desaules , Debasish Banerjee , Ana Hudomal , Zlatko Papić , Arnab Sen , Jad C. Halimeh

Thermodynamics of quantum systems and quantum thermal machines are rapidly developing fields, which have already delivered several promising results, as well as raised many intriguing questions. Many-body quantum machines present new…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-22 Victor Mukherjee , Uma Divakaran

In the last twenty years, Rydberg atoms have become a versatile and much studied system for implementing quantum many-body systems in the framework of quantum computation and quantum simulation. However, even in the absence of coherent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-12 O. Morsch , I. Lesanovsky

Quantum many-body systems can exhibit distinct regimes where dynamics is either ergodic, dynamically exploring an extensive region of available state-space, or non-ergodic, where the dynamics may be restricted. An example is the many-body…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-12 Venelin P. Pavlov , Peter A. Ivanov , Diego Porras , Charlie Nation

Chaos plays a crucial role in numerous natural phenomena, but its quantum nature has remained large elusive. One intriguing quantum-chaotic phenomenon is the scarring of a single-particle wavefunction, where the quantum probability density…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-28 J. Keski-Rahkonen , A. M. Graf , E. J. Heller

We report the observation of unconventional transport phenomena in a spin-1 model that supports a tower of quantum many-body scars, and we discuss their properties uncovering their peculiar nature. In quantum many-body systems, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-31 Gianluca Morettini , Luca Capizzi , Maurizio Fagotti , Leonardo Mazza