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The complexity of quantum evolutions can be understood by examining their dispersion in a chosen basis. Recent research has stressed the fact that the Krylov basis is particularly adept at minimizing this dispersion [V. Balasubramanian et…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-26 Gastón F. Scialchi , Augusto J. Roncaglia , Diego A. Wisniacki

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 study how a machine based on deep learning algorithms learns Krylov spread complexity in quantum systems with N x N random Hamiltonians drawn from the Gaussian unitary ensemble. Using thermofield double states as initial conditions, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-19 Dongsu Bak , Su-Hyeong Kim , Sangnam Park , Jeong-Pil Song

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 propose a measure of quantum state complexity defined by minimizing the spread of the wave-function over all choices of basis. Our measure is controlled by the "survival amplitude" for a state to remain unchanged, and can be efficiently…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-14 Vijay Balasubramanian , Pawel Caputa , Javier Magan , Qingyue Wu

We develop an analytical approach for the description of quantum many-body scars in PXP models. We show that the scarred dynamics in the PXP model on a complete bipartite graph can be interpreted as a one-dimensional chiral scattering…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-14 Bennet Windt , Hannes Pichler

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

In some quantum many-body systems, the Hilbert space breaks up into a large ergodic sector and a much smaller scar subspace. It has been suggested [arXiv:2007.00845] that the two sectors may be distinguished by their transformation…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-12-07 Z. Sun , F. K. Popov , I. R. Klebanov , K. Pakrouski

A recent experiment in the Rydberg atom chain observed unusual oscillatory quench dynamics with a charge density wave initial state, and theoretical works identified a set of many-body "scar states" showing nonthermal behavior in the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-05-07 Cheng-Ju Lin , Olexei I. Motrunich

Quantum many-body scars have received much recent attention for being both intriguing non-ergodic states in otherwise quantum chaotic systems and promising candidates to encode quantum information efficiently. So far, these studies have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-16 Antonio M. García-García , Zhongling Lu , Lucas Sá , Jacobus J. M. Verbaarschot

Two-dimensional Projected Entangled Pair States (PEPS) provide a unique framework giving access to detailed entanglement features of correlated (spin or electronic) systems. For a bi-partitioned quantum system, it has been argued that the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-22 Didier Poilblanc

Formation of quantum scars in many-body systems provides a novel mechanism for enhancing coherence of weakly entangled states. At the same time, coherence of edge modes in certain symmetry protected topological (SPT) phases can persist away…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-07-30 Jared Jeyaretnam , Jonas Richter , Arijeet Pal

It has been shown [arXiv:2007.00845] that three families of highly symmetric states are many-body scars for any spin-1/2 fermionic Hamiltonian of the form $H_0+OT$, where $T$ is a generator of an appropriate Lie group. One of these families…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-12-09 Kiryl Pakrouski , Preethi N. Pallegar , Fedor K. Popov , Igor R. Klebanov

We investigate the complexity of states and operators evolved with the modular Hamiltonian by using the Krylov basis. In the first part, we formulate the problem for states and analyse different examples, including quantum mechanics,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-27 Pawel Caputa , Javier M. Magan , Dimitrios Patramanis , Erik Tonni

Recent experimental observation of weak ergodicity breaking in Rydberg atom quantum simulators has sparked interest in quantum many-body scars - eigenstates which evade thermalisation at finite energy densities due to novel mechanisms that…

Non-equilibrium properties of quantum materials present many intriguing properties, among them athermal behavior, which violates the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis. Such behavior has primarily been observed in disordered systems. More…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-01 Kyungmin Lee , Ronald Melendrez , Arijeet Pal , Hitesh J. Changlani

Understanding the behavior of quantum many-body systems under decoherence is essential for developing robust quantum technologies. Here, we examine the fate of weak ergodicity breaking in systems hosting quantum many-body scars when subject…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Jin-Lou Ma , Zexian Guo , Yu Gao , Zlatko Papić , Lei Ying

Investigating the time evolution of complexity in quantum systems entails evaluating the spreading of the system's state across a defined basis in its corresponding Hilbert space. Recently, the Krylov basis has been identified as the one…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-13 Pedro H. S. Bento , Adolfo del Campo , Lucas C. Céleri

In this work, we present new, highly non-trivial area-law exact zero-energy eigenstates of the one-dimensional (1D) PXP and related models. We formulate sufficient conditions for a matrix product state to represent an exact zero-energy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-21 Andrew N. Ivanov , Olexei I. Motrunich

We develop a novel framework to build quantum many-body scar states in bipartite systems characterized by perfect correlation between the Hamiltonians governing the two sides. By means of a Krylov construction, we build an interaction term…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-03 Debarghya Chakraborty , Dario Rosa