Quantum many-body scars and weak breaking of ergodicity

• Published in: Nature physics Vol. 17; no. 6; pp. 675 - 685
• Main Authors: Serbyn, Maksym, Abanin, Dmitry A., Papić, Zlatko
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 01.06.2021; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 639/766/483/3926; 639/766/530/2803; 639/766/530/2804; Atomic; Classical and Continuum Physics; Complex Systems; Condensed Matter Physics; Eigenvectors; Ergodic processes; Flight simulators; Initial conditions; Mathematical and Computational Physics; Molecular; Optical and Plasma Physics; Physics; Physics and Astronomy; Review Article; Scars; Theoretical; Thermalization (energy absorption)

Thermalization is the inevitable fate of many complex quantum systems, whose dynamics allow them to fully explore the vast configuration space regardless of the initial state—the behaviour known as quantum ergodicity. In a quest for experimental realizations of coherent long-time dynamics, efforts h...