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Quantum many-body scars provide a controlled form of weak ergodicity breaking, in which structured nonthermal eigenstates coexist with a thermalizing many-body spectrum. We introduce a qubit-level route to exact scars based on the intrinsic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Han-Ze Li , Jian-Xin Zhong

Recently a class of quantum systems exhibiting weak ergodicity breaking has attracted much attention. These systems feature a special band of eigenstates called quantum many-body scar states in the energy spectrum. In this work we study the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-12-28 Ke Huang , Yu Wang , Xiao Li

Presently, noisy intermediate-scale quantum computers encounter significant technological challenges that make it impossible to generate large amounts of entanglement. We leverage this technological constraint as a resource and demonstrate…

Nonintegrable many-body quantum systems typically thermalize at long times through the mechanism of quantum chaos. However, some exceptional systems, such as those harboring quantum scars, break thermalization, serving as testbeds for…

We study a quantum spin system with local bilinear interactions and without quenched disorder which seems to display characteristic signatures of a many-body localisation (MBL) transition. From direct diagonalisation of small systems, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-06-01 James M. Hickey , Sam Genway , Juan P. Garrahan

We numerically study the spectral statistics of open quantum many-body systems (OQMBS) as signatures of quantum chaos (or the lack thereof), using the dissipative spectral form factor (DSFF), a generalization of the spectral form factor to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-05-06 Jiachen Li , Stephen Yan , Tomaž Prosen , Amos Chan

We provide a systematic approach for constructing approximate quantum many-body scars (QMBS) starting from two-layer Floquet automaton circuits that exhibit trivial many-body revivals. We do so by applying successively more restrictions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-07 Pierre-Gabriel Rozon , Michael J. Gullans , Kartiek Agarwal

Impurities, defects, and other types of imperfections are ubiquitous in realistic quantum many-body systems and essentially unavoidable in solid state materials. Often, such random disorder is viewed purely negatively as it is believed to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-03-21 Thomas Vojta

The recent discovery of quantum many-body scar states has revealed the possibility of having states with low entanglement that violate the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis in nonintegrable systems. Such states with low entanglement…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-01-03 Ken K. W. Ma , A. Volya , Kun Yang

We develop an analytical approach for the description of quantum many-body scars in PXP models. We show that the scarred dynamics in the PXP model on a complete bipartite graph can be interpreted as a one-dimensional chiral scattering…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-14 Bennet Windt , Hannes Pichler

We study the dynamics of an interacting quantum spin chain under the application of a linearly increasing field. This model exhibits a type of localization known as Stark many-body localization. The dynamics shows a strong dependence on the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-03-10 Elmer V. H. Doggen , Igor V. Gornyi , Dmitry G. Polyakov

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

Quantum many-body scars (QMBS) have attracted considerable interest due to their role in weak ergodicity breaking in many-body systems. We present a general construction that embeds stabilizer states as QMBS of local Hamiltonians. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-19 Shane Dooley

We study an Ising model with long-range interactions undergoing a time-periodic kicking. For different initial states we observe persistent period doubling. When there is period doubling we find that the initial state has relevant overlap…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-23 Ángel L. Corps , Armando Relaño , Angelo Russomanno

Global quenches of quantum many-body models can give rise to periodic dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs) directly connected to the zeros of a Landau order parameter (OP). The associated dynamics has been argued to bear close…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-15 Maarten Van Damme , Jean-Yves Desaules , Zlatko Papić , Jad C. Halimeh

We numerically investigate the stability of exceptional periodic classical trajectories in rather generic chaotic many-body systems and explore a possible connection between these trajectories and exceptional nonthermal quantum eigenstates…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-14 Igor Ermakov , Oleg Lychkovskiy , Boris V. Fine

Statistical mechanics assumes that a quantum many-body system at low temperature can be effectively described by its Gibbs state. However, many complex quantum systems exist only as metastable states of dissipative open system dynamics,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Thiago Bergamaschi , Chi-Fang Chen , Umesh Vazirani

Controllable, coherent many-body systems can provide insights into the fundamental properties of quantum matter, enable the realization of new quantum phases and could ultimately lead to computational systems that outperform existing…

We present an interpretation of scar states and quantum revivals as weakly "broken" representations of Lie algebras spanned by a subset of eigenstates of a many-body quantum system. We show that the PXP model, describing…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-05-06 Kieran Bull , Jean-Yves Desaules , Zlatko Papic

Understanding how closed quantum systems dynamically approach thermal equilibrium presents a major unresolved problem in statistical physics. Generically, non-integrable quantum systems are expected to thermalize as they comply with the…