Detecting Many-Body Scars from Fisher Zeros
arXiv:2501.09478 · doi:10.1103/glc5-hv2m
Abstract
The far-from-equilibrium dynamics of certain interacting quantum systems still defy precise understanding. One example is the so-called quantum many-body scars (QMBSs), where a set of energy eigenstates evade thermalization to give rise to long-lived oscillations. Despite the success of viewing scars from the perspectives of symmetry, commutant algebra, and quasiparticles, it remains a challenge to elucidate the mechanism underlying all QMBS and to distinguish them from other forms of ergodicity breaking. In this work, we introduce an alternative route to detect and diagnose QMBS based on Fisher zeros, i.e., the patterns of zeros of the analytically continued partition function on the complex (inverse temperature) plane. For systems with scars, a continuous line of Fisher zeros will appear off the imaginary axis and extend upward, separating the plane into regions with distinctive thermalization behaviors. This conjecture is motivated from interpreting the complex as the return amplitude of the thermofield double state, and it is validated by analyzing two models with QMBS, the model and the Ising chain in external fields. These models also illustrate the key difference between QMBS and strong ergodicity breaking including their distinctive renormalization group flows on the complex plane. This ``statistical mechanics" approach places QMBS within the same framework of thermal and dynamical phase transitions. It has the advantage of spotting scars without exhaustively examining each individual quantum state.
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