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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

We show that the spin-s square-lattice Heisenberg model has exact many-body scars. These scars are simple valence-bond solids with exactly zero energy, and they exist in even-by-even systems and ladders of width 2. Ladders have additional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-12-13 David D. Dai

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

In one dimension, strongly correlated gapless systems are highly constrained due to conformal invariance, leading to the decoupling of low energy degrees of freedom corresponding to different symmetry sectors. The most familiar example of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-16 Christopher Ekman , Emil J. Bergholtz , Paolo Molignini

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…

We reveal a feature of quantum scarring in systems with many particles: Quantum scars, living densely near an unstable periodic orbit, must be compensated by corresponding antiscarred states suppressed there to establish the uniformity of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-22 Zhongling Lu , Anton M. Graf , Eric J. Heller , Joonas Keski-Rahkonen , Ceren B. Dag

Thermalization and its breakdown in interacting quantum many-body systems are governed by mid-spectrum eigenstates, which are typically accessible only in small system sizes amenable to exact diagonalization. Here we demonstrate that the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-31 Andrew Hallam , Jared Jeyaretnam , Zlatko Papić

Kinetic constraints in quantum many-body systems strongly restrict the accessible Hilbert space, giving rise to highly nontrivial dynamical behavior. In recent years, such systems have attracted growing interest as they provide insight into…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-27 Arkaprava Sil , Sudipto Singha Roy

In a strongly interacting Rydberg atom array, the dynamics are often constrained to the decoupled Hilbert subspaces, representing an intriguing paradigm for nonergodicity. By considering a variable detuning of the global Rydberg coupling,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-05-05 Wen-Jie Geng , Zhenming Zhang , Wei Yi

Quantum scars are enhancements of quantum probability density along classical periodic orbits. We study the recently discovered phenomenon of strong, perturbation-induced quantum scarring in the two-dimensional harmonic oscillator exposed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-03 J. Keski-Rahkonen , P. J. J. Luukko , L. Kaplan , E. J. Heller , E. Räsänen

We present a variant of the Dicke model, termed as the open coupled-top Dicke model, which enables the exploration of rich non-equilibrium phenomena, particularly the fate of quantum scars in an open environment. This model can effectively…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-25 Debabrata Mondal , Sohan Pati , S. Sinha

A quantum scar - an enhancement of a quantum probability density in the vicinity of a classical periodic orbit - is a fundamental phenomenon connecting quantum and classical mechanics. Here we demonstrate that some of the eigenstates of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-25 J. Keski-Rahkonen , A. Ruhanen , E. J. Heller , E. Räsänen

A quantum eigenstate of a classically chaotic system is referred as scarred by an unstable periodic orbit if its probability density is concentrated in the vicinity of that orbit. Recently, a new class of scarring - variational scarring -…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-17 J. Keski-Rahkonen , C. Zou , A. M. Graf , Q. Yao , T. Zhu , J. Velasco, , E. J. Heller

We discuss a construction of quantum many-body scars in the context of holography. We consider two-dimensional conformal field theories and use their dynamical symmetries, naturally realized through the Virasoro algebra, to construct…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-15 Diego Liska , Vladimir Gritsev , Ward Vleeshouwers , Jiří Minář

We study the Hilbert space fragmentation (HSF) in hardcore Bose and Fermi Hubbard models in the framework of the restricted spectrum generating algebra (RSGA). We present a family of hardcore Bose-Hubbard models with repulsive…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-28 D. K. He , Z. Song

Finite coherent quantum systems exhibit a nontrivial response to local sources of phase curvature, which cannot be reduced to conventional forces, disorder-induced localization, or simple gap opening. Here we show that, in finite fermionic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-29 Riccardo Castagna

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 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

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 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…