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Quantum many-body scars (QMBSs) are a novel paradigm for the violation of the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis -- Hamiltonians of these systems exhibit mid-spectrum eigenstates that are equidistant in energy and which possess low…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-02-14 Pierre-Gabriel Rozon , Kartiek Agarwal

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 work, we undertake the problem of formally introducing a notion of quantum many-body scarring in open quantum systems governed by the Lindblad equation. To this goal, we rely on the commutant-algebra framework for the description of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 Lorenzo Gotta

We introduce a novel non-equilibrium phase -- the quantum many-body scar (QMBS) phase -- that emerges in non-Hermitian many-body dynamics when scarred wavefunctions are selectively stabilized via non-Hermitian driving. Projective…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-31 Keita Omiya , Yuya O Nakagawa

Quantum many-body scars are special eigenstates that violate the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis while residing at finite energy density along with thermalizing eigenstates. The spin-1 XY model is known to host a family of such…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-02 Himadri Halder

Quantum many-body scar (QMBS) in kinetically constrained quantum systems challenges the conventional eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH). We develop an effective open-system description for constrained dynamics and introduce the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-09 Jia-wei Wang , Xiang-Fa Zhou , Guang-Can Guo , Zheng-Wei Zhou

Weakly interacting quasiparticles play a central role in the low-energy description of many phases of quantum matter. At higher energies, however, quasiparticles cease to be well-defined in generic many-body systems due to a proliferation…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-01-12 Anushya Chandran , Thomas Iadecola , Vedika Khemani , Roderich Moessner

We present a class of quantum dimer models on the kagome lattice with full translational invariance that feature a quantum many-body scar state of analytically known entanglement properties within their spectra. Using exact diagonalization…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-09-29 Julia Wildeboer , Alexander Seidel , N. S. Srivatsa , Anne E. B. Nielsen , Onur Erten

Quantum many-body scarring (QMBS) has emerged as an intriguing paradigm of weak ergodicity breaking in nonintegrable quantum many-body models, particularly lattice gauge theories (LGTs) in $1+1$ spacetime dimensions. However, an open…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-03-29 Jesse Osborne , Ian P. McCulloch , Jad C. Halimeh

The high level of control and precision achievable in current synthetic quantum matter setups has enabled first attempts at quantum-simulating various intriguing phenomena in condensed matter physics, including those probing thermalization…

Quantum many-body scars (QMBS) are exceptional eigenstates that defy thermalization, enabling long-lived coherent dynamics in strongly interacting systems. However, their stability under perturbations remains inadequately understood. In…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-26 Meng-Yun Mao , Zhixiang Sun , Wen-Long You

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

Quantum many-body scar states are exceptional finite energy density eigenstates in an otherwise thermalizing system that do not satisfy the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis. We investigate the fate of exact many-body scar states under…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-07-15 Cheng-Ju Lin , Anushya Chandran , Olexei I. Motrunich

We discover a variety of exact quantum many-body scars in higher-spin kinetically constrained models, through the recently developed DMRG-S algorithm [Zhang et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 020402]. Specifically, for the higher-spin PXP model…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-07-14 Dong Yuan , Shun-Yao Zhang , Dong-Ling Deng

The far-from-equilibrium dynamics of certain interacting quantum systems still defy precise understanding. One example is the so-called quantum many-body scars (QMBSs), where a set of energy eigenstates evade thermalization to give rise to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-20 Yuchen Meng , Songtai Lv , Yang Liu , Zefan Tan , Erhai Zhao , Haiyuan Zou

We show that a quantum scar state, an atypical eigenstate breaking eigenstate thermalization hypothesis embedded in a many-body energy spectrum, can be constructed in flat band systems. The key idea of our construction is to make use of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-01-04 Yoshihito Kuno , Tomonari Mizoguchi , Yasuhiro Hatsugai

Hilbert space fragmentation (HSF) is a mechanism for generating quantum many-body scar (QMBS), which provides a route to weakly break ergodicity. The zero-energy QMBSs widely exist across various systems due to the intertwining of chiral…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-26 Li Zhang , Yongguan Ke , Chaohong Lee

We study Quantum Many-Body Scars (QMBS) in the language of commutant algebras, which are defined as symmetry algebras of families of local Hamiltonians. This framework explains the origin of dynamically disconnected subspaces seen in models…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-01-07 Sanjay Moudgalya , Olexei I. Motrunich

We consider the spectrum of a $U(1)$ quantum link model where gauge fields are realized as $S=1/2$ spins and demonstrate a new mechanism for generating quantum many-body scars (high-energy eigenstates that violate the eigenstate…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-06-08 Debasish Banerjee , Arnab Sen

Quantum many-body scars are non-thermal eigenstates embedded in the spectra of otherwise non-integrable Hamiltonians. Paradigmatic examples often appear as quasiparticle towers of states, such as the maximally ferromagnetic spin-1/2 states,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Nicholas O'Dea , Lei Gioia , Sanjay Moudgalya , Olexei I. Motrunich