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Experiments on trapped quantum gases can probe challenging regimes of quantum many-body dynamics, where strong interactions or non-equilibrium states prevent exact solutions. Here we present an exact result which holds even when no exact…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-10-19 Etienne Wamba , Axel Pelster , James R. Anglin

This work develops a quantum control application of many-body quantum chaos for ultracold bosonic gases trapped in optical lattices. It is long known how to harness exponential sensitivity to changes in initial conditions for control…

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

The weak ergodicity breaking induced by quantum many-body scars (QMBS) represents an intriguing concept that has received great attention in recent years due to its relation to unusual non-equilibrium behaviour. Here we reveal that this…

We analyze quantum dynamics of strongly interacting, kinetically constrained many-body systems. Motivated by recent experiments demonstrating surprising long-lived, periodic revivals after quantum quenches in Rydberg atom arrays, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-31 Wen Wei Ho , Soonwon Choi , Hannes Pichler , Mikhail D. Lukin

We derive general results relating revivals in the dynamics of quantum many-body systems to the entanglement properties of energy eigenstates. For a D-dimensional lattice system of N sites initialized in a low-entangled and short-range…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-11 Álvaro M. Alhambra , Anurag Anshu , Henrik Wilming

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

The study of geometrically frustrated many-body quantum systems is of central importance to uncover novel quantum mechanical effects. We design a scheme where ultracold bosons trapped in a one-dimensional state-dependent optical lattice are…

Quantum systems with geometrical frustration remain an outstanding challenge for numerical simulations due to the infamous numerical sign problem. Here, we overcome this obstruction via complex path integration in a geometrically frustrated…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-07-02 Elyasaf Y. Cohen , Andrei Alexandru , Snir Gazit

We present a computational framework to identify Hamiltonians of interacting quantum many-body systems that host non-ergodic excited states. We combine quantum Monte Carlo simulations with the recently proposed eigenstate-to-Hamiltonian…

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

The eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH) provides a fundamental mechanism for emergent statistical mechanics in isolated chaotic quantum systems, asserting that individual energy eigenstates behave as pseudorandom vectors within an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Ning Sun , Yanting Cheng

We experimentally and theoretically demonstrate spinor gases driven by spin-flopping fields are excellent platforms for investigating ergodicity breaking and quantum scarring. We observe that specific initial states remain nonthermal at…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-03-21 J. O. Austin-Harris , I. Rana , S. E. Begg , C. Binegar , T. Bilitewski , Y. Liu

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

In a classically chaotic system that is ergodic, any trajectory will be arbitrarily close to any point of the available phase space after a long time, filling it uniformly. Using Born's rules to connect quantum states with probabilities,…

Quantum spin chains - the prototypical model for coupled two-level systems - offer a fertile playground both for fundamental and technological applications, ranging from the theory of thermalization to quantum computation. The effects of…

Kinetic constraints in quantum many-body systems strongly restrict the accessible Hilbert space, giving rise to highly nontrivial dynamical behavior. In recent years, such systems have attracted growing interest as they provide insight into…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-27 Arkaprava Sil , Sudipto Singha Roy

Geometrical frustration and long-range couplings are key contributors to create quantum phases with different properties throughout physics. We propose a scheme where both ingredients naturally emerge in a Raman induced subwavelength…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-07-03 Domantas Burba , Gediminas Juzeliūnas , Ian B. Spielman , Luca Barbiero

We develop a workflow to use current quantum computing hardware for solving quantum many-body problems, using the example of the fermionic Hubbard model. Concretely, we study a four-site Hubbard ring that exhibits a transition from a…

We investigate the quantum dynamics of the 1D spinless Fermi-Hubbard model with a linear-tilted potential. Surprisingly in a strong resonance regime, we show that the model can be described by the kinetically constrained effective…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-03-01 Wei-Jie Huang , Yu-Biao Wu , Guang-Can Guo , Wu-Ming Liu , Xu-Bo Zou