Emergent SU(2) Dynamics and Perfect Quantum Many-Body Scars

Motivated by recent experimental observations of coherent many-body revivals in a constrained Rydberg atom chain, we construct a weak quasilocal deformation of the Rydberg-blockaded Hamiltonian, which makes the revivals virtually perfect. Our analysis suggests the existence of an underlying noninteg...

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Veröffentlicht in:Physical review letters 2019-06, Vol.122 (22), p.220603-220603, Article 220603
Hauptverfasser: Choi, Soonwon, Turner, Christopher J, Pichler, Hannes, Ho, Wen Wei, Michailidis, Alexios A, Papić, Zlatko, Serbyn, Maksym, Lukin, Mikhail D, Abanin, Dmitry A
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Zusammenfassung:Motivated by recent experimental observations of coherent many-body revivals in a constrained Rydberg atom chain, we construct a weak quasilocal deformation of the Rydberg-blockaded Hamiltonian, which makes the revivals virtually perfect. Our analysis suggests the existence of an underlying nonintegrable Hamiltonian which supports an emergent SU(2)-spin dynamics within a small subspace of the many-body Hilbert space. We show that such perfect dynamics necessitates the existence of atypical, nonergodic energy eigenstates-quantum many-body scars. Furthermore, using these insights, we construct a toy model that hosts exact quantum many-body scars, providing an intuitive explanation of their origin. Our results offer specific routes to enhancing coherent many-body revivals and provide a step toward establishing the stability of quantum many-body scars in the thermodynamic limit.
ISSN:0031-9007
1079-7114
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.220603