Stable infinite-temperature eigenstates in SU(2)-symmetric nonintegrable models

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Hauptverfasser: Turner, Christopher J., Szyniszewski, Marcin, Mukherjee, Bhaskar, Melendrez, Ronald, Changlani, Hitesh J., Pal, Arijeet
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author Turner, Christopher J.
Szyniszewski, Marcin
Mukherjee, Bhaskar
Melendrez, Ronald
Changlani, Hitesh J.
Pal, Arijeet
author_facet Turner, Christopher J.
Szyniszewski, Marcin
Mukherjee, Bhaskar
Melendrez, Ronald
Changlani, Hitesh J.
Pal, Arijeet
contents Nonintegrable many-body quantum systems typically thermalize at long times through the mechanism of quantum chaos. However, some exceptional systems, such as those harboring quantum scars, break thermalization, serving as testbeds for foundational problems of quantum statistical physics. Here, we investigate a class of nonintegrable bond-staggered models that is endowed with a large number of zero-energy eigenstates and possesses a non-Abelian internal symmetry. We use character theory to give a lower bound on the zero-energy degeneracy, which matches exact diagonalization results, and is found to grow exponentially with the system size. We also show that few-magnon zero-energy states have an exact analytical description, allowing us to build a basis of low-entangled fixed-separation states, which is stable to most perturbations found in experiments. This remarkable dynamical stability of special states elucidates our understanding of nonequilibrium processes in non-Abelian chaotic quantum models.
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spellingShingle Stable infinite-temperature eigenstates in SU(2)-symmetric nonintegrable models
Turner, Christopher J.
Szyniszewski, Marcin
Mukherjee, Bhaskar
Melendrez, Ronald
Changlani, Hitesh J.
Pal, Arijeet
Quantum Physics
Quantum Gases
Strongly Correlated Electrons
Nonintegrable many-body quantum systems typically thermalize at long times through the mechanism of quantum chaos. However, some exceptional systems, such as those harboring quantum scars, break thermalization, serving as testbeds for foundational problems of quantum statistical physics. Here, we investigate a class of nonintegrable bond-staggered models that is endowed with a large number of zero-energy eigenstates and possesses a non-Abelian internal symmetry. We use character theory to give a lower bound on the zero-energy degeneracy, which matches exact diagonalization results, and is found to grow exponentially with the system size. We also show that few-magnon zero-energy states have an exact analytical description, allowing us to build a basis of low-entangled fixed-separation states, which is stable to most perturbations found in experiments. This remarkable dynamical stability of special states elucidates our understanding of nonequilibrium processes in non-Abelian chaotic quantum models.
title Stable infinite-temperature eigenstates in SU(2)-symmetric nonintegrable models
topic Quantum Physics
Quantum Gases
Strongly Correlated Electrons
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.11956