Revivals imply quantum many-body scars
arXiv:1911.05637 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.101.205107
Abstract
We derive general results relating revivals in the dynamics of quantum many-body systems to the entanglement properties of energy eigenstates. For a D-dimensional lattice system of N sites initialized in a low-entangled and short-range correlated state, our results show that a perfect revival of the state after a time at most poly(N) implies the existence of "quantum many-body scars", whose number grows at least as the square root of N up to poly-logarithmic factors. These are energy eigenstates with energies placed in an equally-spaced ladder and with Rényi entanglement entropy scaling as log(N) plus an area law term for any region of the lattice. This shows that quantum many-body scars are a necessary condition for revivals, independent of particularities of the Hamiltonian leading to them. We also present results for approximate revivals, for revivals of expectation values of observables and prove that the duration of revivals of states has to become vanishingly short with increasing system size.
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