English
Related papers

Related papers: Quantum many-body scars as remnants of stable many…

200 papers

Quantum many-body scars (QMBS) consist of a few low-entropy eigenstates in an otherwise chaotic many-body spectrum, and can weakly break ergodicity resulting in robust oscillatory dynamics. The notion of QMBS follows the original…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-01-17 Bertrand Evrard , Andrea Pizzi , Simeon I. Mistakidis , Ceren B. Dag

Unstable periodic orbits (UPOs) play a key role in the theory of chaos, constituting the "skeleton" of classical chaotic systems and "scarring" the eigenstates of the corresponding quantum system. Recently, nonthermal many-body eigenstates…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-11-26 Bertrand Evrard , Andrea Pizzi , Simeon I. Mistakidis , Ceren B. Dag

The discovery of Quantum Many-Body Scars (QMBS) both in Rydberg atom simulators and in the Affleck-Kennedy-Lieb-Tasaki (AKLT) spin-1 chain model, have shown that a weak violation of ergodicity can still lead to rich experimental and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-07-13 Sanjay Moudgalya , B. Andrei Bernevig , Nicolas Regnault

Quantum many-body scars (QMBS) are exotic many-body states that exhibit anomalous non-thermal behavior in an otherwise ergodic system. In this work, we demonstrate a simple, scalable and intuitive construction of QMBS in a kinetically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-23 Fan Yang , Matteo Magoni , Hannes Pichler

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

Quantum many-body scarring (QMBS) is an intriguing mechanism of weak ergodicity breaking that has recently spurred significant attention. Particularly prominent in Abelian lattice gauge theories (LGTs), an open question is whether QMBS…

The far-from-equilibrium dynamics of certain interacting quantum systems still defy precise understanding. One example is the so-called quantum many-body scars (QMBSs), where a set of energy eigenstates evade thermalization to give rise to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-20 Yuchen Meng , Songtai Lv , Yang Liu , Zefan Tan , Erhai Zhao , Haiyuan Zou

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 scarring (QMBS) has emerged as an intriguing paradigm of weak ergodicity breaking in nonintegrable quantum many-body models, particularly lattice gauge theories (LGTs) in $1+1$ spacetime dimensions. However, an open…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-03-29 Jesse Osborne , Ian P. McCulloch , Jad C. Halimeh

Quantum many-body scars (QMBS) offer a mechanism for weak ergodicity breaking, enabling non-thermal dynamics to persist in a chaotic many-body system. While most studies of QMBS focus on anomalous eigenstate properties or long-lived…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-06 Shane Dooley , Luke Johnston , Patrick Gormley , Beth Campbell

Persistent revivals recently observed in Rydberg atom simulators have challenged our understanding of thermalization and attracted much interest to the concept of quantum many-body scars (QMBSs). QMBSs are non-thermal highly excited…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-06 Aron Kerschbaumer , Marko Ljubotina , Maksym Serbyn , Jean-Yves Desaules

Quantum many-body scars (QMBS) are exceptional energy eigenstates of quantum many-body systems associated with violations of thermalization for special non-equilibrium initial states. Their various systematic constructions require…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-02-20 Alessio Lerose , Tommaso Parolini , Rosario Fazio , Dmitry A. Abanin , Silvia Pappalardi

The notion of many-body quantum scars is associated with special eigenstates, usually concentrated in certain parts of Hilbert space, that give rise to robust persistent oscillations in a regime that globally exhibits thermalization. Here…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-07-05 Quirin Hummel , Klaus Richter , Peter Schlagheck

Quantum many-body scar (QMBS) in kinetically constrained quantum systems challenges the conventional eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH). We develop an effective open-system description for constrained dynamics and introduce the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-09 Jia-wei Wang , Xiang-Fa Zhou , Guang-Can Guo , Zheng-Wei Zhou

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 nonthermal states embedded in the chaotic spectrum that evade conventional ergodicity. We show that asymptotically AdS mini-boson stars provide a holographic realization of scar-like states. Their…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-05 Yan Liu , Ya-Wen Sun , Yuan-Tai Wang

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

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

We consider a quantum lattice spin model featuring exact quasiparticle towers of eigenstates with low entanglement at finite size, known as quantum many-body scars (QMBS). We show that the states in the neighboring part of the energy…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-11-13 Lorenzo Gotta , Sanjay Moudgalya , Leonardo Mazza

Quantum many-body scars (QMBSs) are a novel paradigm for the violation of the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis -- Hamiltonians of these systems exhibit mid-spectrum eigenstates that are equidistant in energy and which possess low…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-02-14 Pierre-Gabriel Rozon , Kartiek Agarwal
‹ Prev 1 2 3 10 Next ›