Zero-energy quantum many-body scar under emergent chiral symmetry and pseudo Hilbert space fragmentation
Hilbert space fragmentation (HSF) is a mechanism for generating quantum many-body scar (QMBS), which provides a route to weakly break ergodicity. Many scarred systems possess an exponentially large number of zero-energy states due to the chiral symmetry induced bipartition of the Hilbert space. In this work, we study the QMBS phenomenology under the interplay between the chiral symmetry and pseudo HSF, where the Hilbert space is approximately fragmented into different blocks. We consider a model of tilted chain of interacting spinless fermions with periodically varying tunneling strength. At small tunneling strength, we analytically derive the resonance conditions under which the system is described by an effective model with chiral symmetry and pseudo HSF. We find that the interplay between the two gives rise to a highly localized zero-energy QMBS when the particle number is even. This zero-energy QMBS induces an unusual scarred dynamical phenomenon. Specifically, the fidelity from a simple initial state oscillates around a finite fixed value without decaying, instead of showing the typical decaying collapse and revival observed when the particle number is odd and in common scarred systems. We show that the signature of the unusual scarred dynamical behaviour can also be detected in the original driven system by measuring local observables. Our findings enrich the scar phenomenon and deepen the understanding of the relation between Hilbert space structure and QMBS.
Institutions
- Lingnan University (HK)
- Shenzhen University (CN)
- Peng Cheng Laboratory (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Frontiers of Physics
- Published
- 2025-01-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.15302/frontphys.2025.044201
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.25