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 …

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 …

Prominent quantum many-body scars in a truncated Schwinger model

JY Desaules, A Hudomal, D Banerjee, A Sen, Z Papić… - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
The high level of control and precision achievable in current synthetic quantum matter
setups has enabled first attempts at quantum-simulating various intriguing phenomena in …

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 …

Deep thermalization in constrained quantum systems

T Bhore, JY Desaules, Z Papić - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
The concept of “deep thermalization” has recently been introduced to characterize moments
of an ensemble of pure states, resulting from projective measurements on a subsystem …

Theory of robust quantum many-body scars in long-range interacting systems

A Lerose, T Parolini, R Fazio, DA Abanin, S Pappalardi - Physical Review X, 2025 - APS
Quantum many-body scars (QMBS) are exceptional energy eigenstates of quantum many-
body systems associated with violations of thermalization for special nonequilibrium initial …

Bridging quantum criticality via many-body scarring

A Daniel, A Hallam, JY Desaules, A Hudomal, GX Su… - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
Quantum dynamics in certain kinetically-constrained systems can display a strong sensitivity
to the initial condition, wherein some initial states give rise to persistent quantum revivals—a …

Unsupervised detection of decoupled subspaces: Many-body scars and beyond

T Szołdra, P Sierant, M Lewenstein, J Zakrzewski - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
Highly excited eigenstates of quantum many-body systems are typically featureless thermal
states. Some systems, however, possess a small number of special, low-entanglement …

Multimagnon quantum many-body scars from tensor operators

LH Tang, N O'Dea, A Chandran - Physical Review Research, 2022 - APS
We construct a family of three-body spin-1 2 Hamiltonians with a superextensive set of
infinitely long-lived multimagnon states. A magnon in each such state carries either …

Composite spin approach to the blockade effect in Rydberg atom arrays

L Pan, H Zhai - Physical Review Research, 2022 - APS
The Rydberg blockade induces strongly correlated many-body effects in Rydberg atom
arrays, including rich ground-state phases and many-body scar states in the excitation …