collaborators

6 papers

cond-mat.stat-mech2026

From stable periodic orbits to many-body chaos: doubly tunable prethermalization via engineering of an emergent band structure

Jianan Wang, Yang Hou, Andrea Pizzi +3

We uncover a family of many-body periodic orbits in a periodically driven (Floquet) spin system away from the high-frequency limit. While linear stability analysis predicts that pe…

cond-mat.stat-mech2026

Anomalous Floquet Heating from Sparse Long-Range Interactions

Chenyue Guo, Andrea Pizzi, Hongzheng Zhao

Regular lattices of interacting particles under a periodic drive typically heat with rate which is exponentially suppressed in drive frequency . H…

cond-mat.stat-mech2026

Genuine quantum scars in Floquet chaotic many-body systems

Harald Schmid, Andrea Pizzi, Johannes Knolle

Unstable periodic orbits act as organizing structures for classical chaotic systems and underpin quantum scarring. Long known in single-particle systems, genuine quantum scars base…

cond-mat.str-el2025

Unstable periodic orbits galore and quantum hyperscarring in highly frustrated magnets

Andrea Pizzi, Claudio Castelnovo, Johannes Knolle

Highly frustrated magnets, with their macroscopically-degenerate classical ground states and massively-entangled quantum spin liquid phases, have been pivotal to the development of…

quant-ph2025

Genuine quantum scars in many-body spin systems

Andrea Pizzi, Long-Hei Kwan, Bertrand Evrard +2

Chaos makes isolated systems of many interacting particles quickly thermalize and forget about their past. Here, we show that quantum mechanics hinders chaos in many-body systems:…

quant-ph2025

Quantum trails and memory effects in the phase space of chaotic quantum systems

Andrea Pizzi

The eigenstates of a chaotic system can be enhanced along underlying unstable periodic orbits in so-called quantum scars, making it more likely for a particle launched along one su…