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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…

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…

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

The existence of Quantum Many-Body Scars, which prevents thermalization from certain initial states after a long time, has been established across different quantum many-body systems. These include gauge theories corresponding to spin-1/2…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-09-04 Thea Budde , Marina Krstić Marinković , Joao C. Pinto Barros

Quantum many-body scars are non-thermal excited eigenstates of non-integrable Hamiltonians, which could support coherent revival dynamics from special initial states when scars form an equally spaced tower in the energy spectrum. For open…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-16 He-Ran Wang , Dong Yuan , Shun-Yao Zhang , Zhong Wang , Dong-Ling Deng , L. -M. Duan

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

Mechanisms for suppressing thermalization in disorder-free many-body systems, such as Hilbert space fragmentation and quantum many-body scars, have recently attracted much interest in foundations of quantum statistical physics and potential…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-10-11 Jean-Yves Desaules , Erik J. Gustafson , Andy C. Y. Li , Zlatko Papić , Jad C. Halimeh

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

Quantum many-body scarring is believed to be the mechanism behind long-lived coherent oscillations in interacting Rydberg atom chains. These persistent oscillations are due to the large overlap of the many-body scars with certain initial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-07 Shane Dooley , Graham Kells

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 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

Quantum many-body scars enable persistent non-ergodic dynamics in otherwise thermalizing systems, yet their stabilization typically relies on fine-tuned initial states or engineered Hamiltonian perturbations. Here we show that lattice…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-05-08 Erick Parra Verde , Kevin P. Mours , Johannes Zeiher , Ana Hudomal , Jad C. Halimeh

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

A recent experiment in the Rydberg atom chain observed unusual oscillatory quench dynamics with a charge density wave initial state, and theoretical works identified a set of many-body "scar states" showing nonthermal behavior in the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-05-07 Cheng-Ju Lin , Olexei I. Motrunich

We present a class of quantum dimer models on the kagome lattice with full translational invariance that feature a quantum many-body scar state of analytically known entanglement properties within their spectra. Using exact diagonalization…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-09-29 Julia Wildeboer , Alexander Seidel , N. S. Srivatsa , Anne E. B. Nielsen , Onur Erten

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

Generic quantum many-body systems are expected to thermalize, scrambling initial coherence while local observables relax to equilibrium values. Weak ergodicity breaking, often associated with quantum many-body scarring of homogeneous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-25 Aron Kerschbaumer , Jean-Yves Desaules , Maksym Serbyn

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 study the stability of the many-body scars in spin-1/2 fermionic systems under the most typical perturbations in relevant materials. We find that some families of scars are completely insensitive to certain perturbations. In some other…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-01-10 Patrice Kolb , Kiryl Pakrouski

Quantum many-body scarred systems host nonthermal excited eigenstates immersed in a sea of thermal ones. In cases where exact expressions for these special eigenstates are not known, it is computationally demanding to distinguish them from…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-07-13 Shun-Yao Zhang , Dong Yuan , Thomas Iadecola , Shenglong Xu , Dong-Ling Deng