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A generic closed quantum many-body system will inevitably tend to thermalization, whose local information encoded in the initial state eventually scrambles into the full space, known as quantum ergodicity. A paradigmatic exception in closed…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-01-17 Xiang-Ping Jiang , Mingdi Xu , Xuanpu Yang , Hongsheng Hou , Yucheng Wang , Lei Pan

Quantum many-body scars are atypical energy eigenstates of chaotic quantum many-body systems that prevent certain special non-equilibrium initial conditions from thermalizing. We point out that quantum many-body scars exist for any…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-09 Dhiman Bhowmick , Vir B. Bulchandani , Wen Wei Ho

Quantum many-body scars are nonthermal states exhibiting persistent revivals in an otherwise ergodic, nonintegrable quantum system. Here we leverage the phenomenon of kinetic frustration -- the destructive interference of multiple quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Zhuoli Ding , Ruben Verresen , Zoe Z. Yan

Recent experiments on Rydberg atom arrays have found evidence of anomalously slow thermalization and persistent density oscillations, which have been interpreted as a many-body analog of the phenomenon of quantum scars. Periodic dynamics…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-05 Ana Hudomal , Ivana Vasić , Nicolas Regnault , Zlatko Papić

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

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…

We propose a class of non-integrable quantum spin chain models that exhibit quantum many-body scars even in the presence of disorder. With the use of the so-called Onsager symmetry, we construct such scarred models for arbitrary spin…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-27 Naoyuki Shibata , Nobuyuki Yoshioka , Hosho Katsura

Quantum dynamics in certain kinetically-constrained systems can display a strong sensitivity to the initial condition, wherein some initial states give rise to persistent quantum revivals -- a type of weak ergodicity breaking known as…

The existence of Quantum Many-Body Scars, which prevents thermalization from certain initial states after a long time, has been established across different quantum many-body systems. These include gauge theories corresponding to spin-1/2…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-09-04 Thea Budde , Marina Krstić Marinković , Joao C. Pinto Barros

We study the spin-1 XY model on a hypercubic lattice in $d$ dimensions and show that this well-known nonintegrable model hosts an extensive set of anomalous finite-energy-density eigenstates with remarkable properties. Namely, they exhibit…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-10-03 Michael Schecter , Thomas Iadecola

Quantum many-body scarring is a paradigm of weak ergodicity breaking arising due to the presence of special nonthermal many-body eigenstates that possess low entanglement entropy, are equally spaced in energy, and concentrate in certain…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-05-17 Jad C. Halimeh , Luca Barbiero , Philipp Hauke , Fabian Grusdt , Annabelle Bohrdt

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

Quantum many-body scars have been put forward as counterexamples to the Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis. These atypical states are observed in a range of correlated models as long-lived oscillations of local observables in quench…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-10-13 Hongzheng Zhao , Adam Smith , Florian Mintert , Johannes Knolle

We uncover the exact athermal eigenstates in the Bose-Hubbard (BH) model with a three-body constraint, motivated by the exact construction of quantum many-body scar (QMBS) states in the $S=1$ $XY$ model. These states are generated by…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-01-19 Ryui Kaneko , Masaya Kunimi , Ippei Danshita

Kramers-Wannier duality, a hallmark of the Ising model, has recently gained renewed interest through its reinterpretation as a non-invertible symmetry with a state-level action. Using sequential quantum circuits (SQC), we argue that this…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-16 Weslei B. Fontana , Fabrizio G. Oliviero , Yi-Ping Huang

We demonstrate that the kinematically-constrained model of Rydberg atoms on a two-leg ladder with staggered detuning, $\Delta \in [0,1]$, has quantum many-body scars (QMBS) in its spectrum and represents a non-perturbative generalization of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-04 Mainak Pal , Madhumita Sarkar , K. Sengupta , Arnab Sen

We construct a set of exact, highly excited eigenstates for a nonintegrable spin-1/2 model in one dimension that is relevant to experiments on Rydberg atoms in the antiblockade regime. These states provide a new solvable example of quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-01-30 Thomas Iadecola , Michael Schecter

Quantum many-body scars are energy eigenstates which fail to reproduce thermal expectation values of local observables, in systems where the rest of the many-body spectrum fulfils eigenstate thermalization. Experimental observation of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-11 Peter Græns Larsen , Anne E. B. Nielsen , André Eckardt , Francesco Petiziol

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

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