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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

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

We study disorder-induced ergodicity breaking transition in high-energy eigenstates of interacting spin-1/2 chains. Using exact diagonalization we introduce a cost function approach to quantitatively compare different scenarios for the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-08-19 Jan Šuntajs , Janez Bonča , Tomaž Prosen , Lev Vidmar

Quantifying multipartite entanglement in quantum many-body systems and hybrid quantum computing architectures is a fundamental yet challenging task. In recent years, thermodynamic quantities such as the maximum extractable work from an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-06 Harsh Sharma , Sampriti Saha , A. S. Majumdar , Manik Banik , Himadri Shekhar Dhar

The stated overarching goal of the highly active field of quantum simulation of high-energy physics (HEP) is to achieve the capability to study \textit{ab-initio} real-time microscopic dynamics of $3+1$D quantum chromodynamics (QCD).…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-01-09 Simone Orlando , Guo-Xian Su , Bing Yang , Jad C. Halimeh

We consider an interacting collective spin model known as coupled top (CT), exhibiting a rich variety of phenomena related to quantum transitions, ergodicity, and formation of quantum scars, discussed in [Phys. Rev. E 102, 020101(R)…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-02-09 Debabrata Mondal , Sudip Sinha , S. Sinha

Isolated interacting quantum systems generally thermalize, yet there are several examples for the breakdown of ergodicity, such as many-body localization and quantum scars. Recently, ergodicity breaking has been observed in systems…

Lattice gauge theories (LGTs) describe a broad range of phenomena in condensed matter and particle physics. A prominent example is confinement, responsible for bounding quarks inside hadrons such as protons or neutrons. When quark-antiquark…

The ongoing quest for understanding nonequilibrium dynamics of complex quantum systems underpins the foundation of statistical physics as well as the development of quantum technology. Quantum many-body scarring has recently opened a window…

We calculate the spatial entanglement between two electrons trapped in a nanostructure for a broad class of confinement potentials, including single and double quantum dots, and core-shell quantum dot structures. By using a parametrized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 S. Abdullah , J. P. Coe , I. D'Amico

Spin-orbit coupled bosons can exhibit rich equilibrium phases at low temperature and in the presence of particle-particle interactions. In the case with a 1D synthetic spin-orbit interaction, it has been observed that the ground state of a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-06-22 Jeffrey Ting Fung Poon , Xiong-Jun Liu

Motivated by recent observations of ergodicity breaking due to Hilbert space fragmentation in 1D Fermi-Hubbard chains with a tilted potential [Scherg et al., arXiv:2010.12965], we show that the same system also hosts quantum many-body scars…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-08-16 Jean-Yves Desaules , Ana Hudomal , Christopher J. Turner , Zlatko Papić

Many-body localization (MBL) behavior is analyzed {in an extended Bose-Hubbard model with quasiperiodic infinite-range interactions. No additional disorder is present. Examining level statistics and entanglement entropy of eigenstates we…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-06-02 Piotr Kubala , Piotr Sierant , Giovanna Morigi , Jakub Zakrzewski

The presence of quantum scars, athermal eigenstates of a many-body Hamiltonian with finite energy density, leads to absence of ergodicity and long-time coherent dynamics in closed quantum systems starting from simple initial states. Such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-02 Bhaskar Mukherjee , Sourav Nandy , Arnab Sen , Diptiman Sen , K. Sengupta

One of the promising applications of digital quantum processors is the simulation of many-body quantum systems. They have been already used to investigate several ergodicity violating mechanisms, which were initially discovered in synthetic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Leonard Logarić , John Goold , Shane Dooley

In this Letter, we report a parameter-dependent Hilbert space fragmentation in a one-dimensional Rydberg atom array under anti-blockade conditions. We identify distinct non-equilibrium dynamical phases and show that their quasi-periodic…

The advancements of quantum processors offer a promising new window to study exotic states of matter. One striking example is the possibility of non-ergodic behaviour in systems with a large number of local degrees of freedom. Here we use a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-18 Gonzalo Camacho , Claire L. Edmunds , Michael Meth , Martin Ringbauer , Benedikt Fauseweh

Quantum many-body scars enable persistent non-ergodic dynamics in otherwise thermalizing systems, yet their stabilization typically relies on fine-tuned initial states or engineered Hamiltonian perturbations. Here we show that lattice…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-05-08 Erick Parra Verde , Kevin P. Mours , Johannes Zeiher , Ana Hudomal , Jad C. Halimeh

At the heart of quantum many-body physics lies the understanding of mechanisms that avoid quantum thermalization in an isolated system quenched far from equilibrium. A prominent example is Hilbert space fragmentation, which has recently…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-22 Anthony N. Ciavarella , Christian W. Bauer , Jad C. Halimeh

Recent advances in the field of quantum technologies have opened up the road for the realization of small-scale quantum simulators of lattice gauge theories which, among other goals, aim at improving our understanding on the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-11-04 Enrico C. Domanti , Dario Zappalà , Alejandro Bermudez , Luigi Amico