Engineering Quantum Many-Body Scars through Lattice Geometry
Abstract
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 geometry alone can serve as a powerful and experimentally accessible control knob for inducing and enhancing scarring. By transforming a one-dimensional chain into a quasi-one-dimensional triangle-decorated lattice, we find that the fully polarized state -- normally thermalizing in the PXP model -- exhibits pronounced fidelity revivals, slow entanglement growth, and strong overlap with a tower of weakly entangled eigenstates. We trace this behavior to a geometry-induced restructuring of the constrained Hilbert space, whereby the adjacency graph decomposes into hypercube subgraphs that enforce coherent population transfer and stabilize an emergent approximate algebra. We propose a direct implementation in programmable arrays of tweezer-trapped Rydberg atoms, where the triangle-decorated geometry can be realized using spatial light modulators and the resulting scarring dynamics probed via time-resolved measurements of excitation density. Our results establish lattice connectivity as a design principle for engineering non-ergodic dynamics in constrained quantum systems.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2605.05296,
title = {Engineering Quantum Many-Body Scars through Lattice Geometry},
author = {Erick Parra Verde and Kevin P. Mours and Johannes Zeiher and Ana Hudomal and Jad C. Halimeh},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.05296},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
$10$ pages, $4$ figures