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Enhancing the effect of quantum many-body scars on dynamics by minimizing the effective dimension

Shane Dooley, Graham Kells

2020Physical review. B./Physical review. B19 citationsDOIOpen Access PDF

Abstract

Quantum many-body scarring is believed to be the mechanism behind long-lived coherent oscillations in interacting Rydberg atom chains. These persistent oscillations are due to the large overlap of the many-body scars with certain initial states. We show that the ``effective dimension'' is a useful measure for identifying nonthermalizing initial states in many-body scarred systems. By minimising the effective dimension we find physically reasonable initial states of the Rydberg chain that lead to more pronounced and longer-lived oscillations, accentuating the effect of the many-body scars on the dynamics.

Topics & Concepts

Rydberg atomQuantumDimension (graph theory)ScarsRydberg formulaMeasure (data warehouse)PhysicsAtom (system on chip)Statistical physicsQuantum mechanicsMathematicsComputer scienceMedicineSurgeryPure mathematicsIonizationDatabaseIonEmbedded systemCold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein CondensatesQuantum many-body systemsQuantum, superfluid, helium dynamics