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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

We study the nature of the ergodicity-breaking "quantum many-body scar" states that appear in the PXP model describing constrained Rabi oscillations. For a {wide class of bipartite lattices} of Rydberg atoms, we reveal that the nearly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-24 Keita Omiya , Markus Müller

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

Quantum scars are special eigenstates of many-body systems that evade thermalization. They were first discovered in the PXP model, a well-known effective description of Rydberg atom arrays. Despite significant theoretical efforts, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-02-26 Giuliano Giudici , Federica Maria Surace , Hannes Pichler

The recent discovery of persistent revivals in the Rydberg-atom quantum simulator has revealed a weakly ergodicity-breaking mechanism dubbed quantum many-body scars, which are a set of nonthermal states embedded in otherwise thermal…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-08-02 Qianqian Chen , Shuai A. Chen , Zheng Zhu

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

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 one-dimensional tilted, periodically driven Fermi-Hubbard chain is a paradigm in the study of quantum many-body physics, particularly for solid-state systems. We uncover the emergence of Floquet scarring states, a class of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-04 Jun-Yin Huang , Li-Li Ye , Ying-Cheng Lai

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

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

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

To provide a physical example of quantum scars, we study the many-body scars in the spin-1 Kitaev chain where the so-called PXP Hamiltonian is exactly embedded in the spectra. Regarding the conserved quantities, the Hilbert space is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-02-11 Wen-Long You , Zhuan Zhao , Jie Ren , Gaoyong Sun , Liangsheng Li , Andrzej M. Oleś

Quantum many-body scars (QMBS) represent a mechanism for weak ergodicity breaking, characterized by the coexistence of atypical non-thermal eigenstates within an otherwise thermalizing many-body spectrum. In this work, we revisit the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-25 Sashikanta Mohapatra , Sanjay Moudgalya , Ajit C. Balram

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

We present a systematic framework to construct model Hamiltonians that have unconventional superconducting pairing states as exact energy eigenstates, by incorporating multibody interactions (i.e., interactions among more than two…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-01-22 Shohei Imai , Naoto Tsuji

Quantum many-body scars have received much recent attention for being both intriguing non-ergodic states in otherwise quantum chaotic systems and promising candidates to encode quantum information efficiently. So far, these studies have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-16 Antonio M. García-García , Zhongling Lu , Lucas Sá , Jacobus J. M. Verbaarschot

We introduce a class of spinless fermion models that exhibit quantum many-body scars (QMBS) originating from kinetic constraints in the form of density-assisted hopping. The models can be defined on any lattice in any dimension and allow…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-13 Kensuke Tamura , Hosho Katsura

We investigate the quantum dynamics of the 1D spinless Fermi-Hubbard model with a linear-tilted potential. Surprisingly in a strong resonance regime, we show that the model can be described by the kinetically constrained effective…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-03-01 Wei-Jie Huang , Yu-Biao Wu , Guang-Can Guo , Wu-Ming Liu , Xu-Bo Zou

We analyze the Hilbert space connectivity of the $L$ site PXP-model by constructing the Hamiltonian matrices via a Gray code numbering of basis states. The matrices are all formed out of a single Hamiltonian-path backbone and entries on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-15 Bhilahari Jeevanesan

Recent experimental observation of weak ergodicity breaking in Rydberg atom quantum simulators has sparked interest in quantum many-body scars - eigenstates which evade thermalisation at finite energy densities due to novel mechanisms that…