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We present a novel extension of the concept of scars for the wave functions of classically chaotic few-body systems of identical particles with rotation and permutation symmetry. Generically there exist manifolds in classical phase space…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-30 T. Papenbrock , T. H. Seligman , H. A. Weidenmueller

Quantum many-body scars (QMBS) constitute a new quantum dynamical regime in which rare "scarred" eigenstates mediate weak ergodicity breaking. One open question is to understand the most general setting in which these states arise. In this…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-02-09 Christopher M. Langlett , Zhi-Cheng Yang , Julia Wildeboer , Alexey V. Gorshkov , Thomas Iadecola , Shenglong Xu

Quantum many-body scars (QMBS) offer a mechanism for weak ergodicity breaking, enabling non-thermal dynamics to persist in a chaotic many-body system. While most studies of QMBS focus on anomalous eigenstate properties or long-lived…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-06 Shane Dooley , Luke Johnston , Patrick Gormley , Beth Campbell

Recent discovery of persistent revivals in quantum simulators based on Rydberg atoms have pointed to the existence of a new type of dynamical behavior that challenged the conventional paradigms of integrability and thermalization. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-31 Maksym Serbyn , Dmitry A. Abanin , Zlatko Papić

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

Formation of quantum scars in many-body systems provides a novel mechanism for enhancing coherence of weakly entangled states. At the same time, coherence of edge modes in certain symmetry protected topological (SPT) phases can persist away…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-07-30 Jared Jeyaretnam , Jonas Richter , Arijeet Pal

Quantum many-body scars have been put forward as counterexamples to the Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis. These atypical states are observed in a range of correlated models as long-lived oscillations of local observables in quench…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-10-13 Hongzheng Zhao , Adam Smith , Florian Mintert , Johannes Knolle

The recent discovery of persistent revivals in the Rydberg-atom quantum simulator has revealed a weakly ergodicity-breaking mechanism dubbed quantum many-body scars, which are a set of nonthermal states embedded in otherwise thermal…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-08-02 Qianqian Chen , Shuai A. Chen , Zheng Zhu

Experiments performed on strongly interacting Rydberg atoms have revealed surprising persistent oscillations of local observables. These oscillations have been attributed to a special set of non-ergodic states, referred to as quantum…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-09-29 Ian Mondragon-Shem , Maxim G. Vavilov , Ivar Martin

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…

Quantum many-body scars (QMBS) are exceptional energy eigenstates of quantum many-body systems associated with violations of thermalization for special non-equilibrium initial states. Their various systematic constructions require…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-02-20 Alessio Lerose , Tommaso Parolini , Rosario Fazio , Dmitry A. Abanin , Silvia Pappalardi

We develop the theory of quantum scars for quantum fields. By generalizing the formalisms of Heller and Bogomolny from few-body quantum mechanics to quantum fields, we find that unstable periodic classical solutions of the field equations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-21 Jordan Cotler , Annie Y. Wei

Quantum scars refer to eigenstates with enhanced probability density along unstable classical periodic orbits (POs). First predicted 40 years ago, scars are special eigenstates that counterintuitively defy ergodicity in quantum systems…

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,…

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

Quantum many-body scar states are special eigenstates of nonintegrable models with distinctive entanglement features that give rise to infinitely long-lived coherent dynamics under quantum quenches from certain initial states. We elaborate…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-12-07 Julia Wildeboer , Christopher M. Langlett , Zhi-Cheng Yang , Alexey V. Gorshkov , Thomas Iadecola , Shenglong Xu

Non-equilibrium properties of quantum materials present many intriguing properties, among them athermal behavior, which violates the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis. Such behavior has primarily been observed in disordered systems. More…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-01 Kyungmin Lee , Ronald Melendrez , Arijeet Pal , Hitesh J. Changlani

A quantum many-body scar is an eigenstate of a chaotic many-body Hamiltonian that exhibits two seemingly incongruous properties: its energy eigenvalue corresponds to a high temperature, yet its entanglement structure resembles that of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-16 Phillip C. Burke , Shane Dooley

Quantum many-body scars (QMBS) represent a mechanism for weak ergodicity breaking, characterized by the coexistence of atypical non-thermal eigenstates within an otherwise thermalizing many-body spectrum. In this work, we revisit the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-25 Sashikanta Mohapatra , Sanjay Moudgalya , Ajit C. Balram

Quantum many-body scars (QMBS) are exotic many-body states that exhibit anomalous non-thermal behavior in an otherwise ergodic system. In this work, we demonstrate a simple, scalable and intuitive construction of QMBS in a kinetically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-23 Fan Yang , Matteo Magoni , Hannes Pichler