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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

Experimental observation of coherent oscillations in a Rydberg atom chain [Bernien et al., Nature 551, 579 (2017)] has led to the discovery of quantum many-body scars (QMBS) which is a new paradigm for ergodicity-breaking. The experimental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-21 Sashikanta Mohapatra , Ajit C. Balram

Mechanisms that give rise to coherent quantum dynamics, such as quantum many-body scars, have recently attracted much interest as a way of controlling quantum chaos. However, identifying the presence of quantum scars in general many-body…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Jie Ren , Andrew Hallam , Lei Ying , Zlatko Papić

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…

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

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

Non-invertible symmetries of quantum field theories and many-body systems generalize the concept of symmetries by allowing non-invertible operations in addition to more ordinary invertible ones described by groups. The aim of this paper is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-08 Masaki Okada , Yuji Tachikawa

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

We demonstrate that the kinematically-constrained model of Rydberg atoms on a two-leg ladder with staggered detuning, $\Delta \in [0,1]$, has quantum many-body scars (QMBS) in its spectrum and represents a non-perturbative generalization of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-04 Mainak Pal , Madhumita Sarkar , K. Sengupta , Arnab Sen

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

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

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) constitute a new quantum dynamical regime in which rare "scarred" eigenstates mediate weak ergodicity breaking. One open question is to understand the most general setting in which these states arise. In this…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-02-09 Christopher M. Langlett , Zhi-Cheng Yang , Julia Wildeboer , Alexey V. Gorshkov , Thomas Iadecola , Shenglong Xu

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

We construct a class of quantum many-body systems hosting an $\mathfrak{su}(3)$-invariant scar subspace, extending the conventional paradigm of quantum many-body scars beyond equally spaced spectra and single-directional tower structures.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-22 Chihiro Matsui

In this letter, we study the PXP Hamiltonian with an external magnetic field that exhibits both quantum scar states and quantum criticality. It is known that this model hosts a series of quantum many-body scar states violating quantum…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-03-21 Zhiyuan Yao , Lei Pan , Shang Liu , Hui Zhai

We develop a systematic method for constructing asymptotic quantum many-body scar (AQMBS) states. While AQMBS states are closely related to quantum many-body scar (QMBS) states, they exhibit key differences. Unlike QMBS states, AQMBS states…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-07 Masaya Kunimi , Yusuke Kato , Hosho Katsura

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

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

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