Dooley, Shane and Kells, Graham (2022) Extreme many-body scarring in a quantum spin chain via weak dynamical constraints. Physical Review B, 105 (15). pp. 1-9. ISSN 2469-9950
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Abstract
It has recently been established that quantum many-body scarring can prevent the thermalisation of some isolated quantum systems, starting from certain initial states. One of the first models to show this was the so-called PXP Hamiltonian, which was used to theoretically model an experiment on a chain of strongly interacting Rydberg atoms. A defining feature of the PXP Hamiltonian is a set of dynamical constraints that make certain states inaccessible to the dynamics. In this paper we construct a class of spin chain models that are parameterised by a discrete variable ℓ that controls the "strength" of a dynamical constraint. We show that by increasing ℓ the constraint becomes weaker, in the sense that fewer states are excluded from the dynamics. The PXP Hamiltonian is special case for ℓ=2. By weakening the constraint to ℓ≥4, however, we find a more extreme version of quantum scarring than in the PXP Hamiltonian, with the number of scar states growing exponentially in the system size.
Item Type: | Article |
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Keywords: | Extreme; many-body; scarring; quantum; spin; chain; dynamical constraints; |
Academic Unit: | Faculty of Science and Engineering > Theoretical Physics |
Item ID: | 18517 |
Identification Number: | 10.1103/PhysRevB.105.155127 |
Depositing User: | Graham Kells |
Date Deposited: | 14 May 2024 15:15 |
Journal or Publication Title: | Physical Review B |
Publisher: | American Physical Society |
Refereed: | Yes |
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URI: | https://mu.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/18517 |
Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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