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Scar states are special many-body eigenstates that weakly violate the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH). Using the explicit formalism of the Lanczos algorithm, usually known as the forward scattering approximation in this context,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-30 Budhaditya Bhattacharjee , Samudra Sur , Pratik Nandy

The violation of the Floquet version of eigenstate thermalization hypothesis is systematically discussed with realistic Hamiltonians. Our model is based on the PXP type interactions without disorder. We exactly prove the existence of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-02-10 Sho Sugiura , Tomotaka Kuwahara , Keiji Saito

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 present a mathematical theory of metastable pure states in closed many-body quantum systems with finite-dimensional Hilbert space. Given a Hamiltonian, a pure state is defined to be metastable when all sufficiently local operators either…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-03-21 Chao Yin , Federica M. Surace , Andrew Lucas

We study the spin-1 XY model on a hypercubic lattice in $d$ dimensions and show that this well-known nonintegrable model hosts an extensive set of anomalous finite-energy-density eigenstates with remarkable properties. Namely, they exhibit…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-10-03 Michael Schecter , Thomas Iadecola

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

The theory of quantum scarring -- a remarkable violation of quantum unique ergodicity -- rests on two complementary pillars: the existence of unstable classical periodic orbits and the so-called quasimodes, i.e., the non-ergodic states that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-03 Christopher J. Turner , Jean-Yves Desaules , Kieran Bull , Zlatko Papić

We propose a class of non-integrable quantum spin chain models that exhibit quantum many-body scars even in the presence of disorder. With the use of the so-called Onsager symmetry, we construct such scarred models for arbitrary spin…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-27 Naoyuki Shibata , Nobuyuki Yoshioka , Hosho Katsura

The phenomenon of quantum many-body scars (QMBS) has been studied both theoretically and experimentally, due to its unusual violation of the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH). In this paper, we extend the ETH to a new description…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-09 Jia-wei Wang , Xiang-Fa Zhou , Guang-Can Guo , Zheng-Wei Zhou

We study a fully connected quantum spin model resonantly coupled to a small environment of non-interacting spins, and investigate how initial state properties are remembered at long times. We find memory of initial state properties, in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-24 M. R. Lambert , Shan-Wen Tsai , Shane P. Kelly

A generic closed quantum many-body system will inevitably tend to thermalization, whose local information encoded in the initial state eventually scrambles into the full space, known as quantum ergodicity. A paradigmatic exception in closed…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-01-17 Xiang-Ping Jiang , Mingdi Xu , Xuanpu Yang , Hongsheng Hou , Yucheng Wang , Lei Pan

We study a driven, spin-orbit coupled fermionic system in a lattice at the resonant regime where the drive frequency equals the Hubbard repulsion, for which non-trivial constrained dynamics emerge at fast timescales. An effective…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 Mikhail Mamaev , Itamar Kimchi , Michael A. Perlin , Rahul M. Nandkishore , Ana Maria Rey

When a generic quantum system is prepared in a simple initial condition, it typically equilibrates toward a state that can be described by a thermal ensemble. A known exception are localized systems which are non-ergodic and do not…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-17 Henrik Wilming , Tobias J. Osborne , Kevin S. C. Decker , Christoph Karrasch

Quantum many-body scars in Rydberg atom arrays have thus far only been observed on bipartite lattices, leaving open the question of whether and how they survive frustration, and what the appropriate initial states are that lead to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Jean-Yves Desaules , Aron Kerschbaumer , Marko Ljubotina , Maksym Serbyn

The recent observations of persistent revivals in the Rydberg atom chain have revealed a weak ergodicity breaking mechanism known as quantum many-body scars, which is typically a collection of states with low entanglement embedded in…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-12-14 Qianqian Chen , Zheng Zhu

The concept of "deep thermalization" has recently been introduced to characterize moments of an ensemble of pure states, resulting from projective measurements on a subsystem, which lie beyond the purview of conventional Eigenstate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-28 Tanmay Bhore , Jean-Yves Desaules , Zlatko Papić

The PXP model hosts a special set of nonergodic states, referred to as quantum many-body scars. One of the consequences of quantum scarring is the periodic revival of the wave function fidelity. It has been reported that quantum fidelity…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-05-31 HaRu K. Park , SungBin Lee

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

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

Accessing the thermodynamic-limit properties of strongly correlated quantum matter requires simulations on very large lattices, a regime that remains challenging for numerical methods, especially in frustrated two-dimensional systems. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-04 Luciano Loris Viteritti , Riccardo Rende , Subir Sachdev , Giuseppe Carleo