Tensor networks and quantum many-body scars

Maksym Serbyn (ISTA, Klosterneuburg)

Sep 06. 2022, 14:00 — 15:30

I will review a new mechanism of the weak ergodicity breaking relevant for the experimentally realized Rydberg-atom quantum simulator. This mechanism arises from the presence of special eigenstates in the many-body spectrum that are reminiscent of quantum scars in chaotic non-interacting systems. In the single-particle case, quantum scars correspond to wave functions concentrated in the vicinity of unstable periodic classical trajectories. I will demonstrate that many-body scars appear in the Fibonacci chain, a model with a constrained local Hilbert space which can be realized by a Rydberg chain. I will focus on the relation between scars and time dependent variational principle over matrix product states and will discuss the relation between quantum scars and quantum many-body control problems.

Further Information
Venue:
Faculty of Physics
Associated Event:
School on Tensor Networks based approaches to Quantum Many-Body Systems (Graduate School)
Organizer(s):
Frank Pollmann (TU Munich)
Norbert Schuch (U of Vienna)
Frank Verstraete (Ghent U)