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Exact Floquet quantum many-body scars under Rydberg blockade

Kaoru Mizuta, Kazuaki Takasan, Norio Kawakami

2020Physical Review Research70 citationsDOIOpen Access PDF

Abstract

The authors propose quantum many-body scars in periodically-driven systems in the presence of Rydberg blockade. While almost all states relax to infinite temperature states, the states in a subspace spanned by exact Floquet scar eigenstates completely avoid thermalization and show persistent oscillation in both microscopic and stroboscopic time

Topics & Concepts

Floquet theoryPhysicsRydberg formulaQuantum mechanicsQuantumSubspace topologyEigenvalues and eigenvectorsOscillation (cell signaling)Rydberg atomSpectrum (functional analysis)Quantum systemThermalisationQuantum stateAction (physics)Unitary stateQuantum electrodynamicsClassical mechanicsExact solutions in general relativityRydberg stateQuantum many-body systemsCold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein CondensatesTopological Materials and Phenomena