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 …

Observing non-ergodicity due to kinetic constraints in tilted Fermi-Hubbard chains

S Scherg, T Kohlert, P Sala, F Pollmann… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The thermalization of isolated quantum many-body systems is deeply related to fundamental
questions of quantum information theory. While integrable or many-body localized systems …

-pairing in Hubbard models: From spectrum generating algebras to quantum many-body scars

S Moudgalya, N Regnault, BA Bernevig - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
We revisit the η-pairing states in Hubbard models and explore their connections to quantum
many-body scars to discover a universal scars mechanism. η-pairing occurs due to an …

-pairing states as true scars in an extended Hubbard model

DK Mark, OI Motrunich - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
The η-pairing states are a set of exactly known eigenstates of the Hubbard model on
hypercubic lattices, first discovered by Yang [CN Yang, Phys. Rev. Lett. 63, 2144 (1989) …

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 …

Long-lived phantom helix states in Heisenberg quantum magnets

PN Jepsen, YKE Lee, H Lin, I Dimitrova, Y Margalit… - Nature Physics, 2022 - nature.com
Exact solutions for quantum many-body systems are rare but provide valuable insights for
the description of universal phenomena such as the non-equilibrium dynamics of strongly …

Exhaustive characterization of quantum many-body scars using commutant algebras

S Moudgalya, OI Motrunich - Physical Review X, 2024 - APS
We study quantum many-body scars (QMBS) in the language of commutant algebras, which
are defined as symmetry algebras of families of local Hamiltonians. This framework explains …

Disorder-free localization and many-body quantum scars from magnetic frustration

PA McClarty, M Haque, A Sen, J Richter - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
The concept of geometrical frustration has led to rich insights into condensed matter physics,
especially as a mechanism to produce exotic low-energy states of matter. Here we show that …