Quantum Many-Body Scars: A Quasiparticle Perspective

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Autori principali: Chandran, Anushya, Iadecola, Thomas, Khemani, Vedika, Moessner, Roderich
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Pubblicazione: 2022
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author Chandran, Anushya
Iadecola, Thomas
Khemani, Vedika
Moessner, Roderich
author_facet Chandran, Anushya
Iadecola, Thomas
Khemani, Vedika
Moessner, Roderich
contents 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-defined in generic many-body systems due to a proliferation of decay channels. In this review, we discuss the phenomenon of quantum many-body scars, which can give rise to certain species of stable quasiparticles throughout the energy spectrum. This goes along with a set of unusual non-equilibrium phenomena including many-body revivals and non-thermal stationary states. We provide a pedagogical exposition of this physics via a simple yet comprehensive example, that of a spin-1 XY model. We place our discussion in the broader context of symmetry-based constructions of many-body scar states, projector embeddings, and Hilbert space fragmentation. We conclude with a summary of experimental progress and theoretical puzzles.
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spellingShingle Quantum Many-Body Scars: A Quasiparticle Perspective
Chandran, Anushya
Iadecola, Thomas
Khemani, Vedika
Moessner, Roderich
Strongly Correlated Electrons
Quantum Gases
Statistical Mechanics
Quantum Physics
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-defined in generic many-body systems due to a proliferation of decay channels. In this review, we discuss the phenomenon of quantum many-body scars, which can give rise to certain species of stable quasiparticles throughout the energy spectrum. This goes along with a set of unusual non-equilibrium phenomena including many-body revivals and non-thermal stationary states. We provide a pedagogical exposition of this physics via a simple yet comprehensive example, that of a spin-1 XY model. We place our discussion in the broader context of symmetry-based constructions of many-body scar states, projector embeddings, and Hilbert space fragmentation. We conclude with a summary of experimental progress and theoretical puzzles.
title Quantum Many-Body Scars: A Quasiparticle Perspective
topic Strongly Correlated Electrons
Quantum Gases
Statistical Mechanics
Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.11528