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In contrast with extended Bloch waves, a single particle can become spatially localized due to the so-called skin effect originating from non-Hermitian pumping. Here we show that in kinetically-constrained many-body systems, the skin effect…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-09-04 Ruizhe Shen , Fang Qin , Jean-Yves Desaules , Zlatko Papić , Ching Hua Lee

We show for any oriented surface, possibly with a boundary, how to generalize Kramers-Wannier duality to the world of quantum groups. The generalization is motivated by quantization of Poisson-Lie T-duality from the string theory.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Pavol Severa

We propose a type of phase transition in quantum many-body systems, which occurs in highly excited quantum many-body scar states, while most of the spectrum is largely unaffected. Such scar state phase transitions can be realized by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-10 Peter Græns Larsen , Anne E. B. Nielsen

Observables of out-of-equilibrium quantum many-body systems display complex temporal behavior that encodes the underlying physical mechanisms but typically resists straightforward interpretations. We introduce recurrence analysis - a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Tomasz Szołdra , Matheus S. Palmero , Peter Schmelcher

We discuss a construction of quantum many-body scars in the context of holography. We consider two-dimensional conformal field theories and use their dynamical symmetries, naturally realized through the Virasoro algebra, to construct…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-15 Diego Liska , Vladimir Gritsev , Ward Vleeshouwers , Jiří Minář

We prove the existence of spontaneous symmetry breaking in suitably low-energy eigenstates of certain gapless and frustrated many-body quantum systems, namely symmetric quantum perturbations to classical models which exhibit spontaneous…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-03-16 Chao Yin , Andrew Lucas

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

Weak ergodicity breaking, particularly through quantum many-body scars (QMBS), has become a significant focus in many-body physics. Krylov state complexity quantifies the spread of quantum states within the Krylov basis and serves as a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-04-08 Qingmin Hu , Wen-Yi Zhang , Yunguang Han , Wen-Long You

We study a dephasing many-body open quantum system that hosts, together with the infinite-temperature state, another additional stationary state. The latter is exceptional in many respects, as it is pure and retains memory of the initial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-14 Alice Marché , Gianluca Morettini , Leonardo Mazza , Lorenzo Gotta , Luca Capizzi

Unstable periodic orbits act as organizing structures for classical chaotic systems and underpin quantum scarring. Long known in single-particle systems, genuine quantum scars based on unstable periodic orbits have been recently extended to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-16 Harald Schmid , Andrea Pizzi , Johannes Knolle

Recent studies of interacting systems of quantum spins, ultracold atoms and correlated fermions have shed a new light on how isolated many-body systems can avoid rapid equilibration to their thermal state. It has been shown that many such…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-08-10 Zlatko Papić

Understanding the behavior of quantum many-body systems under decoherence is essential for developing robust quantum technologies. Here, we examine the fate of weak ergodicity breaking in systems hosting quantum many-body scars when subject…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Jin-Lou Ma , Zexian Guo , Yu Gao , Zlatko Papić , Lei Ying

We demonstrate that a continuous two frequency drive is a versatile and robust protocol to control the lifetime of quantum many body scars and to engineer non-equilibrium phases of driven quantum matter. By modulating the frequency ratio…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-08-19 Pinaki Dutta , Kamal L Panigrahi , Vishwanath Shukla

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

The presence of quantum scars, athermal eigenstates of a many-body Hamiltonian with finite energy density, leads to absence of ergodicity and long-time coherent dynamics in closed quantum systems starting from simple initial states. Such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-02 Bhaskar Mukherjee , Sourav Nandy , Arnab Sen , Diptiman Sen , K. Sengupta

Quantum scars are non-thermal eigenstates characterized by low entanglement entropy, initially detected in systems subject to nearest-neighbor Rydberg blockade, the so called PXP model. While most of these special eigenstates elude an…

For the quantum phase transition in the transverse-field Ising chain, Kramers-Wannier duality not only protects its critical properties but also pinpoints the location of the phase transition. Its role in out-of-equilibrium, monitored…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Finn Eckstein , Harald Schmid , Quinten Preiss , Simon Trebst , Felix von Oppen , Guo-Yi Zhu

Quantum many-body scars break ergodicity and evade thermalization, resulting in sub-volume law entanglement entropy even with high energy density. While their quantum correlations and entanglement have been elaborated previously, their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Zhaohui Zhi , Qingyun Qian , Jin-Guo Liu , Guo-Yi Zhu

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

Quantum many-body scars (QMBS) are nonthermal eigenstates embedded in otherwise thermal spectra. A broad class of exact QMBS is realized as fixed-momentum magnon states above a ferromagnetic reference state. Here we prove a structural…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-30 Keita Omiya