Quantum Many-Body Scars beyond the PXP model in Rydberg simulators

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Main Authors: Kerschbaumer, Aron, Ljubotina, Marko, Serbyn, Maksym, Desaules, Jean-Yves
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author Kerschbaumer, Aron
Ljubotina, Marko
Serbyn, Maksym
Desaules, Jean-Yves
author_facet Kerschbaumer, Aron
Ljubotina, Marko
Serbyn, Maksym
Desaules, Jean-Yves
contents Persistent revivals recently observed in Rydberg atom simulators have challenged our understanding of thermalization and attracted much interest to the concept of quantum many-body scars (QMBSs). QMBSs are non-thermal highly excited eigenstates that coexist with typical eigenstates in the spectrum of many-body Hamiltonians, and have since been reported in multiple theoretical models, including the so-called PXP model, approximately realized by Rydberg simulators. At the same time, questions of how common QMBSs are and in what models they are physically realized remain open. In this Letter, we demonstrate that QMBSs exist in a broader family of models that includes and generalizes PXP to longer-range constraints and states with different periodicity. We show that in each model, multiple QMBS families can be found. Each of them relies on a different approximate $\mathfrak{su}(2)$ algebra, leading to oscillatory dynamics in all cases. However, in contrast to the PXP model, their observation requires launching dynamics from weakly entangled initial states rather than from a product state. QMBSs reported here may be experimentally probed using Rydberg atom simulator in the regime of longer-range Rydberg blockades.
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spellingShingle Quantum Many-Body Scars beyond the PXP model in Rydberg simulators
Kerschbaumer, Aron
Ljubotina, Marko
Serbyn, Maksym
Desaules, Jean-Yves
Quantum Physics
Quantum Gases
Strongly Correlated Electrons
Persistent revivals recently observed in Rydberg atom simulators have challenged our understanding of thermalization and attracted much interest to the concept of quantum many-body scars (QMBSs). QMBSs are non-thermal highly excited eigenstates that coexist with typical eigenstates in the spectrum of many-body Hamiltonians, and have since been reported in multiple theoretical models, including the so-called PXP model, approximately realized by Rydberg simulators. At the same time, questions of how common QMBSs are and in what models they are physically realized remain open. In this Letter, we demonstrate that QMBSs exist in a broader family of models that includes and generalizes PXP to longer-range constraints and states with different periodicity. We show that in each model, multiple QMBS families can be found. Each of them relies on a different approximate $\mathfrak{su}(2)$ algebra, leading to oscillatory dynamics in all cases. However, in contrast to the PXP model, their observation requires launching dynamics from weakly entangled initial states rather than from a product state. QMBSs reported here may be experimentally probed using Rydberg atom simulator in the regime of longer-range Rydberg blockades.
title Quantum Many-Body Scars beyond the PXP model in Rydberg simulators
topic Quantum Physics
Quantum Gases
Strongly Correlated Electrons
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.18913