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Persistent oscillatory dynamics in non-equilibrium many-body systems is a tantalizing manifestation of ergodicity breakdown that continues to attract much attention. Recent works have focused on two classes of such systems: discrete time…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-10-12 Kieran Bull , Andrew Hallam , Zlatko Papić , Ivar Martin

Quantum many-body scars are atypical, highly nonthermal eigenstates embedded in a sea of thermal eigenstates that have been observed in, for example, kinetically constrained quantum many-body models. These special eigenstates are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-08-16 Wouter Buijsman , Yevgeny Bar Lev

Quantum many-body scar is a recently discovered phenomenon weakly violating eigenstate thermalization hypothesis, and it has been extensively studied across various models. However, experimental realizations are mainly based on constrained…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-26 Zexian Guo , Bobo Liu , Yu Gao , Ang Yang , Junlin Wang , Jinlou Ma , Lei Ying

We introduce the concept of ergodicity and explore its deviation caused by quantum scars in an isolated quantum system, employing a pedagogical approach based on a toy model. Quantum scars, originally identified as traces of classically…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-02 Sudip Sinha , S. Sinha

Quantum scars are non-thermal eigenstates characterized by low entanglement entropy, initially detected in systems subject to nearest-neighbor Rydberg blockade, the so called PXP model. While most of these special eigenstates elude an…

Quantum many-body scars are rare exceptions to thermalization: they sustain non-thermal stationary states without the protection of any local conservation law, and are generally expected to be fragile. Here we construct an analytically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Luca Capizzi , Benoît Ferté

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

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

We analyze quantum dynamics of strongly interacting, kinetically constrained many-body systems. Motivated by recent experiments demonstrating surprising long-lived, periodic revivals after quantum quenches in Rydberg atom arrays, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-31 Wen Wei Ho , Soonwon Choi , Hannes Pichler , Mikhail D. Lukin

As the name indicates, a periodic orbit is a solution for a dynamical system that repeats itself in time. In the regular regime, periodic orbits are stable, while in the chaotic regime, they become unstable. The presence of unstable…

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

Weak ergodicity breaking, particularly through quantum many-body scars (QMBS), has become a significant focus in many-body physics. Krylov state complexity quantifies the spread of quantum states within the Krylov basis and serves as a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-04-08 Qingmin Hu , Wen-Yi Zhang , Yunguang Han , Wen-Long You

The complexity of highly excited eigenstates is a central theme in nonequilibrium many-body physics, underpining questions of thermalization, classical simulability, and quantum information structure. In this work, considering the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-04 Sabhyata Gupta , Piotr Sierant , Luis Santos , Paolo Stornati

Quantum many-body scars (QMBS) -- rare eigenstates that evade thermalization -- are typically characterized by their low entanglement entropies compared to surrounding thermal eigenstates. However, due to finite-size effects in systems…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-09-17 Zhiyuan Yao , Pengfei Zhang

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

Isolated quantum many-body systems are often well-described by the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis. There are, however, mechanisms that cause different behavior: many-body localization and quantum many-body scars. Here, we show how one…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-05-24 Michael Iversen , Anne E. B. Nielsen

Scar eigenstates in a many-body system refers to a small subset of non-thermal finite energy density eigenstates embedded into an otherwise thermal spectrum. This novel non-thermal behaviour has been seen in recent experiments simulating a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-12 Sourav Nandy , Bhaskar Mukherjee , Arpan Bhattacharyya , Aritra Banerjee

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

Highly excited eigenstates of quantum many-body systems are typically featureless thermal states. Some systems, however, possess a small number of special, low-entanglement eigenstates known as quantum scars. We introduce a quantum-inspired…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-02 Tomasz Szołdra , Piotr Sierant , Maciej Lewenstein , Jakub Zakrzewski

Presently, noisy intermediate-scale quantum computers encounter significant technological challenges that make it impossible to generate large amounts of entanglement. We leverage this technological constraint as a resource and demonstrate…