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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

Based on the standard many-fermion field theory, the authors construct models describing ultracold fermions in a 1D optical lattices by implementing a mode expansion of the fermionic field operator where modes, in addition to space…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Francesco Massel , Vittorio Penna

The Hubbard model is a paradigmatic model of strongly correlated quantum matter, thus making it desirable to investigate with quantum simulators such as ultracold atomic gases. Here, we consider the problem of two atoms interacting in a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-12-03 Haydn S. Adlong , Jesper Levinsen , Meera M. Parish

We investigate the onset and mechanism of Hilbert space fragmentation (HSF) in a chain of strongly interacting Rydberg atoms subject to local dephasing. It is found that the emergence of multiple long-lived metastable states is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Tianyi Yan , Chun Hei Leung , Weibin Li

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

We obtain ab initio the Hubbard parameters for Rydberg-dressed atoms in an one-dimensional sinusoidal optical lattice in the basis of maximally localized wannier states. Finite range, soft-core inter-atomic interactions become the trait of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-07-26 Yashwant Chougale , Rejish Nath

We consider spin chain models with local Hamiltonians that display weak ergodicity breaking. In these models, the majority of the eigenstates are thermal, but there is a distinguished subspace of the Hilbert space in which ergodicity is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-06-24 Hosho Katsura , Chihiro Matsui , Chiara Paletta , Balázs Pozsgay

We show that the combination of charge and dipole conservation---characteristic of fracton systems---leads to an extensive fragmentation of the Hilbert space, which in turn can lead to a breakdown of thermalization. As a concrete example,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-03-13 Pablo Sala , Tibor Rakovszky , Ruben Verresen , Michael Knap , Frank Pollmann

Disordered systems provide paradigmatic instances of ergodicity breaking and localization phenomena. Here we explore the dynamics of excitations in a system of Rydberg atoms held in optical tweezers. The finite temperature produces an…

We introduce a large class of models exhibiting robust ergodicity breaking in quantum dynamics. Our work is inspired by recent discussions of "topologically robust Hilbert space fragmentation," but massively generalizes in two directions:…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-25 Alexey Khudorozhkov , Charles Stahl , Oliver Hart , Rahul Nandkishore

We study Hilbert-space fragmentation and thermalization in a one-dimensional dipole-conserving Bose-Hubbard chain. By analyzing the structure of the Hamiltonian matrix in the Fock basis, we show that the system exhibits weak Hilbert-space…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-05-19 Chenrong Liu

This paper explores the effect of strong-to-weak fragmentation transition, namely freezing transition, and its rich characteristics in a family of one-dimensional spinless fermionic models involving short-to-long-range facilitated hoppings…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-10 Sreemayee Aditya

Previous studies have shown that bipartite Hubbard systems with inhomogeneous hopping amplitudes can exhibit higher pair-binding energies than the uniform model. Here we examine whether this result holds for systems with a more generic band…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-09-06 Gideon Wachtel , Shirit Baruch , Dror Orgad

Electrons may form inter-site pairs (dimers) by a number of mechanisms. For example, long-range (Fr\"ohlich) electron-phonon interactions and strong on-site Hubbard U allow formation of small light bipolarons in some lattices. We identify…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-06-01 S Jackson , J H Samson

We introduce a new route to Hilbert space fragmentation in high dimensions leveraging the group-word formalism. We show that taking strongly fragmented models in one dimension and "lifting" to higher dimensions using subsystem symmetries…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-04 Charles Stahl , Oliver Hart , Alexey Khudorozhkov , Rahul Nandkishore

The Hubbard model is a "highly oversimplified model" for electrons in a solid which interact with each other through extremely short ranged repulsive (Coulomb) interaction. The Hamiltonian of the Hubbard model consists of two pieces; H_hop…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-02-03 Hal Tasaki

Inspired by the growing interest in probing many-body phases in novel two-dimensional lattice geometries we investigate the properties of cold atoms as they could be observed in an optical Lieb lattice. We begin by computing Wannier…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-08-12 Stuart Flannigan , Luisa Madail , Ricardo G. Dias , Andrew J. Daley

We consider a 2D quantum spin model with ring-exchange interaction that has subsystem symmetries associated to conserved magnetization along rows and columns of a square lattice, which implies the conservation of the global dipole moment.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-10-19 Alexey Khudorozhkov , Apoorv Tiwari , Claudio Chamon , Titus Neupert

We show how a finite number of conservation laws can globally `shatter' Hilbert space into exponentially many dynamically disconnected subsectors, leading to an unexpected dynamics with features reminiscent of both many body localization…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-05-19 Vedika Khemani , Michael Hermele , Rahul M. Nandkishore

The Hamiltonian formulation of lattice gauge theories plays a central role in quantum simulations of gauge theories, and understanding their spectrum and other properties is expected to become crucial in the upcoming years. The relevant…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-04-20 Thea Budde , Marina Kristć Marinković , Joao C. Pinto Barros