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Scar eigenstates in a many-body system refers to a small subset of non-thermal finite energy density eigenstates embedded into an otherwise thermal spectrum. This novel non-thermal behaviour has been seen in recent experiments simulating a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-12 Sourav Nandy , Bhaskar Mukherjee , Arpan Bhattacharyya , Aritra Banerjee

Semiclassical methods form a bridge between classical systems and their quantum counterparts. An interesting phenomenon discovered in this connection is the scar effect, whereby energy eigenstates display enhancement structures resembling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 R. Vilela Mendes

Quantum many-body scars (QMBS) constitute a new quantum dynamical regime in which rare "scarred" eigenstates mediate weak ergodicity breaking. One open question is to understand the most general setting in which these states arise. In this…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-02-09 Christopher M. Langlett , Zhi-Cheng Yang , Julia Wildeboer , Alexey V. Gorshkov , Thomas Iadecola , Shenglong Xu

Quantum many-body scars, long-lived excited states of correlated quantum chaotic systems that evade thermalization, are of great fundamental and technological interest. We create novel scar states in a bosonic 1D quantum gas of dysprosium…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-04-28 Wil Kao , Kuan-Yu Li , Kuan-Yu Lin , Sarang Gopalakrishnan , Benjamin L. Lev

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 Hamiltonian lattice Yang-Mills theory based on spin networks that provide a useful basis to represent the physical states satisfying the Gauss law constraints. We focus on $\mathrm{SU}(2)$ Yang-Mills theory in $(2+1)$…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-09-20 Tomoya Hayata , Yoshimasa Hidaka

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 thermodynamic limit is foundational to statistical mechanics, underlying our understanding of many-body phases. It assumes that, as the system size grows infinitely at fixed density of particles, unambiguous macroscopic phases emerge…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-06-23 Jeet Shah , Laura Shou , Jeremy Shuler , Victor Galitski

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

The eigenstate thermalization hypothesis describes how isolated many-body quantum systems reach thermal equilibrium. However, quantum many-body scars and Hilbert space fragmentation violate this hypothesis and cause nonthermal behavior. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-08-06 Pieter H. Harkema , Michael Iversen , Anne E. B. Nielsen

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

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 are rare eigenstates hidden within the chaotic spectra of many-body systems, representing a weak violation of the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH). Identifying these scars, as well as other non-thermal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-12 Jiajin Feng , Bingzhi Zhang , Zhi-Cheng Yang , Quntao Zhuang

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

We find exponentially many exact quantum many-body scar states in a two-dimensional PXP model -- an effective model for a two-dimensional Rydberg atom array in the nearest-neighbor blockade regime. Such scar states are remarkably simple…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-07-01 Cheng-Ju Lin , Vladimir Calvera , Timothy H. Hsieh

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

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

We study a kinetically constrained pair hopping model that arises within a Landau level in the quantum Hall effect. At filling $\nu = 1/3$, the model exactly maps onto the so-called "PXP model", a constrained model for the Rydberg atom…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-12-02 Sanjay Moudgalya , B. Andrei Bernevig , Nicolas Regnault

We present an interpretation of scar states and quantum revivals as weakly "broken" representations of Lie algebras spanned by a subset of eigenstates of a many-body quantum system. We show that the PXP model, describing…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-05-06 Kieran Bull , Jean-Yves Desaules , Zlatko Papic

To establish a solid-state-based framework for the coexistence of quantum many-body scars and quantum criticality, we investigate the spin-1 Kitaev chain with uniaxial single-ion anisotropy (SIA). In the subspace with uniform $\mathbb{Z}_2$…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-09-14 Wen-Yi Zhang , Ya-Nan Wang , Dongchang Liu , Jie Ren , Jia Li , Ning Wu , Andrzej M. Oleś , Wen-Long You