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We present a computational framework to identify Hamiltonians of interacting quantum many-body systems that host non-ergodic excited states. We combine quantum Monte Carlo simulations with the recently proposed eigenstate-to-Hamiltonian…

Quantum many-body scar is a recently discovered phenomenon weakly violating eigenstate thermalization hypothesis, and it has been extensively studied across various models. However, experimental realizations are mainly based on constrained…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-26 Zexian Guo , Bobo Liu , Yu Gao , Ang Yang , Junlin Wang , Jinlou Ma , Lei Ying

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

We study the spin-1 XY model on a hypercubic lattice in $d$ dimensions and show that this well-known nonintegrable model hosts an extensive set of anomalous finite-energy-density eigenstates with remarkable properties. Namely, they exhibit…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-10-03 Michael Schecter , Thomas Iadecola

The thermalization phenomenon and many-body quantum statistical properties are studied on the example of several observables in isolated spin-chain systems, both integrable and generic non-integrable ones. While diagonal matrix elements for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-01-17 Robin Steinigeweg , Jacek Herbrych , Peter Prelovšek

The Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis explains thermalization in isolated quantum systems through the statistical properties of observables in the energy eigenbasis. We investigate the crossover from integrability to chaos in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-15 Shivam Mishra , C Jisha , Ravi Prakash

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 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

The study of thermalization and its breakdown in isolated systems has led to a deeper understanding of non-equilibrium quantum states and their dependence on initial conditions. The role of initial conditions is prominently highlighted by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-09-30 Ronald Melendrez , Bhaskar Mukherjee , Prakash Sharma , Arijeet Pal , Hitesh J. Changlani

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

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 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

The eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH), which asserts that every eigenstate of a many-body quantum system is indistinguishable from a thermal ensemble, plays a pivotal role in understanding thermalization of isolated quantum…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-27 Shoki Sugimoto , Ryusuke Hamazaki , Masahito Ueda

In this article, we elucidate the structure and properties of a class of anomalous high-energy states of matter-free $U(1)$ quantum link gauge theory Hamiltonians using numerical and analytical methods. Such anomalous states, known as…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-02-29 Indrajit Sau , Paolo Stornati , Debasish Banerjee , Arnab Sen

The recent discovery of persistent revivals in the Rydberg-atom quantum simulator has revealed a weakly ergodicity-breaking mechanism dubbed quantum many-body scars, which are a set of nonthermal states embedded in otherwise thermal…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-08-02 Qianqian Chen , Shuai A. Chen , Zheng Zhu

A profound quest of statistical mechanics is the origin of irreversibility - the arrow of time. New stimulants have been provided, thanks to unprecedented degree of control reached in experiments with isolated quantum systems and rapid…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-28 Chushun Tian , Kun Yang , Jiao Wang

Experimental observation of coherent oscillations in a Rydberg atom chain [Bernien et al., Nature 551, 579 (2017)] has led to the discovery of quantum many-body scars (QMBS) which is a new paradigm for ergodicity-breaking. The experimental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-21 Sashikanta Mohapatra , Ajit C. Balram

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

Given that any subsystem of a closed out-of-equilibrium quantum system is an open quantum system, its dynamics (reduced from the full system's unitary evolution) can be either Markovian (memory-less) or non-Markovian, with the latter…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Aditya Banerjee

The violation of the Floquet version of eigenstate thermalization hypothesis is systematically discussed with realistic Hamiltonians. Our model is based on the PXP type interactions without disorder. We exactly prove the existence of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-02-10 Sho Sugiura , Tomotaka Kuwahara , Keiji Saito