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Coherent many-body quantum dynamics lies at the heart of quantum simulation and quantum computation. Both require coherent evolution in the exponentially large Hilbert space of an interacting many-body system. To date, trapped ions have…

Hilbert space fragmentation is an ergodicity breaking phenomenon, in which Hamiltonian shatters into exponentially many dynamically disconnected sectors. In many fragmented systems, these sectors can be labelled by statistically localized…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-11-27 Patrycja Łydżba , Peter Prelovšek , Marcin Mierzejewski

We present a new route to ergodicity breaking via Hilbert space fragmentation that displays an unprecedented level of robustness. Our construction relies on a single emergent (prethermal) conservation law. In the limit when the conservation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-01-24 David T. Stephen , Oliver Hart , Rahul M. Nandkishore

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

The phenomenon of Hilbert space fragmentation, whereby dynamical constraints fragment Hilbert space into many disconnected sectors, provides a simple mechanism by which thermalization can be arrested. However, little is known about how…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-06 Yiqiu Han , Xiao Chen , Ethan Lake

We argue that the presence of \emph{any} exact $U(1)$ higher-form symmetry, under mild assumptions, presents a fundamental obstruction to ergodicity under unitary dynamics in lattice systems with local interactions and finite on-site…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-01 Ramanjit Sohal , Ruben Verresen

Non-equilibrium quantum dynamics represents an emerging paradigm for condensed matter physics, quantum information science, and statistical mechanics. Strongly interacting Rydberg atoms offer an attractive platform to study…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-30 S. K. Lee , J. Cho , K. S. Choi

In this work, based on the Fredkin spin chain, we introduce a family of spin-$1/2$ many-body Hamiltonians with a three-site interaction featuring a fragmented Hilbert space with coexisting quantum many-body scars. The fragmentation results…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-08-24 Christopher M. Langlett , Shenglong Xu

We study the phenomenon of Hilbert space fragmentation in isolated Hamiltonian and Floquet quantum systems using the language of commutant algebras, the algebra of all operators that commute with each term of the Hamiltonian or each gate of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-03-29 Sanjay Moudgalya , Olexei I. Motrunich

Classical simulation of quantum systems plays an important role in the study of many-body phenomena and in the benchmarking and verification of quantum technologies. Exact simulation is often limited to small systems because the dimension…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-04 Dominik S. Wild , Sabina Drăgoi , Corbin McElhanney , Jonathan Wurtz , Sheng-Tao Wang

Hilbert space fragmentation, as it is currently investigated, primarily originates from specific kinematic constraints or emergent conservation laws in many-body systems with translation invariance. It leads to non-ergodic dynamics and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-10-23 Ishita Modak , Rajesh Narayanan , Ferdinand Evers , Soumya Bera

We investigate emergent quantum dynamics of the tilted Ising chain in the regime of a weak transverse field. Within the leading order perturbation theory, the Hilbert space is fragmented into exponentially many decoupled sectors. We find…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-05-17 Alvise Bastianello , Umberto Borla , Sergej Moroz

Although most quantum systems thermalize locally on short time scales independent of initial conditions, recent developments have shown this is not always the case. Lattice geometry and quantum mechanics can conspire to produce constrained…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-06-23 Kyungmin Lee , Arijeet Pal , Hitesh J. Changlani

In contrast with Anderson localization where a genuine localization is observed in real space, the many-body localization (MBL) problem is much less understood in the Hilbert space, support of the eigenstates. In this work, using exact…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-11-06 Nicolas Macé , Fabien Alet , Nicolas Laflorencie

We construct a dipole-facilitated kinetic constraint to partition the Hilbert space into three disconnected subspaces, two of which are nonthermal and the other acts as an intrinsic thermal bath. The resulting glassy system freely…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-11 Guanhua Chen , Yao Yao

Unraveling the mechanisms of ergodicity breaking in complex quantum systems is a central pursuit in nonequilibrium physics. In this work, we investigate a one-dimensional spin model featuring a tunable long-range hopping term, $H_{n}$,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-17 Y. S. Liu , X. Z. Zhang

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…

We study Hilbert-space localization of the many-body dynamics due to ergodicity breaking and analyze this effect in terms of the entanglement entropy and the entanglement spectrum. We find a transition from a regime driven by quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-13 Quancheng Liu , Klaus Ziegler

Recent work has proposed fading ergodicity as a mechanism for many-body ergodicity breaking. Here, we show that two paradigmatic random matrix ensembles -- the Rosenzweig-Porter model and the ultrametric model -- fall within the same…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-26 Rafał Świętek , Maksymilian Kliczkowski , Miroslav Hopjan , Lev Vidmar

Randomness and disorder have strong impact on transport processes in quantum systems and give rise to phenomena such as Anderson localization [1-3], many-body localization [4] or glassy dynamics [5]. Their characteristics thereby depend on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-02 Carsten Lippe , Tanita Klas , Jana Bender , Patrick Mischke , Thomas Niederprüm , Herwig Ott