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Starting from a microscopic description of weak system-bath interactions, we derive from first principles a quantum master equation that does not rely on the well-known rotating wave approximation. This includes generic many-body systems,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 Matteo Scandi , Álvaro M. Alhambra

Coupling a quantum many-body system to an external environment dramatically changes its dynamics and offers novel possibilities not found in closed systems. Of special interest are the properties of the steady state of such open quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-30 Hendrik Weimer , Augustine Kshetrimayum , Román Orús

Given that any subsystem of a closed out-of-equilibrium quantum system is an open quantum system, its dynamics (reduced from the full system's unitary evolution) can be either Markovian (memory-less) or non-Markovian, with the latter…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Aditya Banerjee

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 scar states are highly excited eigenstates of many-body systems that exhibit atypical entanglement and correlation properties relative to typical eigenstates at the same energy density. Scar states also give rise to…

Using Liouville space and superoperator formalism we consider pure stationary states of open and dissipative quantum systems. We discuss stationary states of open quantum systems, which coincide with stationary states of closed quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Vasily E. Tarasov

We investigate the stability of quantum many-body scars under perturbations, within the PXP model. We numerically compute the fidelity and average correlations to monitor the state evolution and to identify revivals. The results indicate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-23 Alessandra Chioquetta , Raphael Campos Drumond

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

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

We study the eigenstate properties of a nonintegrable spin chain that was recently realized experimentally in a Rydberg-atom quantum simulator. In the experiment, long-lived coherent many-body oscillations were observed only when the system…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-12-04 Thomas Iadecola , Michael Schecter , Shenglong Xu

We theoretically propose a quantum scar affecting the motion of three interacting particles in a circular trap. We numerically calculate the quantum eigenstates of the system and show that some of them are scarred by a classically unstable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 D. J. Papoular , B. Zumer

We construct few-body, interacting, nonlocal Hamiltonians with a quantum scar state in an otherwise thermalizing many-body spectrum. In one dimension, the embedded state is a critical state, and in two dimensions, the embedded state is a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-12-04 N. S. Srivatsa , Julia Wildeboer , Alexander Seidel , Anne E. B. Nielsen

As a paradigm of weak ergodicity breaking in disorder-free nonintegrable models, quantum many-body scars (QMBS) can offer deep insights into the thermalization dynamics of gauge theories. Having been first discovered in a spin-$1/2$ quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-05-08 Jean-Yves Desaules , Debasish Banerjee , Ana Hudomal , Zlatko Papić , Arnab Sen , Jad C. Halimeh

Isolated quantum many-body systems are often well-described by the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis. There are, however, mechanisms that cause different behavior: many-body localization and quantum many-body scars. Here, we show how one…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-05-24 Michael Iversen , Anne E. B. Nielsen

Quantum many-body scars are rare eigenstates hidden within the chaotic spectra of many-body systems, representing a weak violation of the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH). Identifying these scars, as well as other non-thermal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-12 Jiajin Feng , Bingzhi Zhang , Zhi-Cheng Yang , Quntao Zhuang

To provide a physical example of quantum scars, we study the many-body scars in the spin-1 Kitaev chain where the so-called PXP Hamiltonian is exactly embedded in the spectra. Regarding the conserved quantities, the Hilbert space is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-02-11 Wen-Long You , Zhuan Zhao , Jie Ren , Gaoyong Sun , Liangsheng Li , Andrzej M. Oleś

We study the nature of the ergodicity-breaking "quantum many-body scar" states that appear in the PXP model describing constrained Rabi oscillations. For a {wide class of bipartite lattices} of Rydberg atoms, we reveal that the nearly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-24 Keita Omiya , Markus Müller

We propose a new variational scheme based on the neural-network quantum states to simulate the stationary states of open quantum many-body systems. Using the high expressive power of the variational ansatz described by the restricted…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-07-03 Nobuyuki Yoshioka , Ryusuke Hamazaki

We establish a duality between open many-body systems governed by the Gorini-Kossakowski-Sudarshan-Lindblad (GKSL) equation and satisfying the detailed balance condition on the one side, and closed bilayer systems with a self-adjoint…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-23 Alexander Teretenkov , Oleg Lychkovskiy

Towers of quantum many-body scars are sets of highly-excited eigenstates of nonintegrable Hamiltonians whose dynamics shows athermal behavior and persistent oscillations in time. The preparation of such states is, however, challenging due…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-16 Lorenzo Gotta , Manas Kulkarni , Gabriele Perfetto