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Quantum many-body scar states are highly excited eigenstates of many-body systems that exhibit atypical entanglement and correlation properties relative to typical eigenstates at the same energy density. Scar states also give rise to…

Variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) have emerged in recent years as a promise to obtain quantum advantage. These task-oriented algorithms work in a hybrid loop combining a quantum processor and classical optimization. Using a specific…

Recent discovery of persistent revivals in quantum simulators based on Rydberg atoms have pointed to the existence of a new type of dynamical behavior that challenged the conventional paradigms of integrability and thermalization. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-31 Maksym Serbyn , Dmitry A. Abanin , Zlatko Papić

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

The concept of quantum many-body scars has recently been put forward as a route to describe weak ergodicity breaking and violation of the Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis. We propose a simple setup to generate quantum many-body scars in…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-04-29 Hongzheng Zhao , Joseph Vovrosh , Florian Mintert , Johannes Knolle

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

Experiments performed on strongly interacting Rydberg atoms have revealed surprising persistent oscillations of local observables. These oscillations have been attributed to a special set of non-ergodic states, referred to as quantum…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-09-29 Ian Mondragon-Shem , Maxim G. Vavilov , Ivar Martin

Chaos makes isolated systems of many interacting particles quickly thermalize and forget about their past. Here, we show that quantum mechanics hinders chaos in many-body systems: although the quantum eigenstates are thermal and strongly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-23 Andrea Pizzi , Long-Hei Kwan , Bertrand Evrard , Ceren B. Dag , Johannes Knolle

The ongoing quest for understanding nonequilibrium dynamics of complex quantum systems underpins the foundation of statistical physics as well as the development of quantum technology. Quantum many-body scarring has recently opened a window…

Dual-unitary circuits are a class of quantum systems for which exact calculations of various quantities are possible, even for circuits that are nonintegrable. The array of known exact results paints a compelling picture of dual-unitary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-18 Leonard Logarić , Shane Dooley , Silvia Pappalardi , John Goold

Quantum many-body scars (QMBS) represent a weak ergodicity-breaking phenomenon that defies the common scenario of thermalization in closed quantum systems. They are often regarded as a many-body analog of quantum scars (QS) -- a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-24 Keita Omiya

Quantum many-body scars are eigenstates in non-integrable isolated quantum systems that defy typical thermalization paradigms, violating the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis and quantum ergodicity. We identify exact analytic scar…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-25 Jeremy Hartse , Lukasz Fidkowski , Niklas Mueller

We investigate the emergence of quantum scars in a general ensemble of random Hamiltonians (of which the PXP is a particular realization), that we refer to as quantum local random networks. We find a class of scars, that we call…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-06-28 Federica Maria Surace , Marcello Dalmonte , Alessandro Silva

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 novel extension of the concept of scars for the wave functions of classically chaotic few-body systems of identical particles with rotation and permutation symmetry. Generically there exist manifolds in classical phase space…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-30 T. Papenbrock , T. H. Seligman , H. A. Weidenmueller

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

Understanding properties of quantum matter is an outstanding challenge in science. In this paper, we demonstrate how machine-learning methods can be successfully applied for the classification of various regimes in single-particle and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-12 Y. A. Kharkov , V. E. Sotskov , A. A. Karazeev , E. O. Kiktenko , A. K. Fedorov

Teleportation of quantum information over long distances requires robust entanglement on the macroscopic scale. The construction of highly energetic eigenstates with tunable long-range entanglement can provide a new medium for information…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-23 Bhaskar Mukherjee , Christopher J. Turner , Marcin Szyniszewski , Arijeet Pal

Implementing variational quantum algorithms with noisy intermediate-scale quantum machines of up to a hundred qubits is nowadays considered as one of the most promising routes towards achieving a quantum practical advantage. In multiqubit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-18 Andrey Kardashin , Anastasiia Pervishko , Jacob Biamonte , Dmitry Yudin

A quantum many-body scar is an eigenstate of a chaotic many-body Hamiltonian that exhibits two seemingly incongruous properties: its energy eigenvalue corresponds to a high temperature, yet its entanglement structure resembles that of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-16 Phillip C. Burke , Shane Dooley