Quantum many-body scars: A quasiparticle perspective

A Chandran, T Iadecola, V Khemani… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Weakly interacting quasiparticles play a central role in the low-energy description of many
phases of quantum matter. At higher energies, however, quasiparticles cease to be well …

Quantum many-body scars and Hilbert space fragmentation: A review of exact results

S Moudgalya, BA Bernevig… - Reports on Progress in …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The discovery of quantum many-body scars (QMBS) both in Rydberg atom simulators and in
the Affleck–Kennedy–Lieb–Tasaki spin-1 chain model, have shown that a weak violation of …

Quantum many-body scars and weak breaking of ergodicity

M Serbyn, DA Abanin, Z Papić - Nature Physics, 2021 - nature.com
Thermalization is the inevitable fate of many complex quantum systems, whose dynamics
allow them to fully explore the vast configuration space regardless of the initial state—the …

Hilbert space fragmentation and commutant algebras

S Moudgalya, OI Motrunich - Physical Review X, 2022 - APS
We study the phenomenon of Hilbert space fragmentation in isolated Hamiltonian and
Floquet quantum systems using the language of commutant algebras, the algebra of all …

Probing quantum scars and weak ergodicity breaking through quantum complexity

B Bhattacharjee, S Sur, P Nandy - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
Scar states are special many-body eigenstates that weakly violate the eigenstate
thermalization hypothesis (ETH). Using the explicit formalism of the Lanczos algorithm …

Unified theory of local quantum many-body dynamics: Eigenoperator thermalization theorems

B Buča - Physical Review X, 2023 - APS
Explaining quantum many-body dynamics is a long-held goal of physics. A rigorous operator
algebraic theory of dynamics in locally interacting systems in any dimension is provided …

Enhanced many-body quantum scars from the non-Hermitian Fock skin effect

R Shen, F Qin, JY Desaules, Z Papić, CH Lee - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
In contrast with extended Bloch waves, a single particle can become spatially localized due
to the so-called skin effect originating from non-Hermitian pum**. Here we show that in …

Weak ergodicity breaking in the Schwinger model

JY Desaules, D Banerjee, A Hudomal, Z Papić, A Sen… - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
As a paradigm of weak ergodicity breaking in disorder-free nonintegrable models, quantum
many-body scars (QMBS) can offer deep insights into the thermalization dynamics of gauge …

From tunnels to towers: Quantum scars from Lie algebras and -deformed Lie algebras

N O'Dea, F Burnell, A Chandran, V Khemani - Physical Review Research, 2020 - APS
We present a general symmetry-based framework for obtaining many-body Hamiltonians
with scarred eigenstates that do not obey the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis. Our …

Error-mitigated simulation of quantum many-body scars on quantum computers with pulse-level control

IC Chen, B Burdick, Y Yao, PP Orth, T Iadecola - Physical Review Research, 2022 - APS
Quantum many-body scars are an intriguing dynamical regime in which quantum systems
exhibit coherent dynamics and long-range correlations when prepared in certain initial …