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most citedEnhancing disorder-free localization through dynamically emergent local symmetries

38 citations · 89 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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quant-ph2026

Emergent Self-Similar Quantum Revivals in Spiral Drives

Xin-Chi Zhou, Liang-Hong Mo, Hongzheng Zhao +1

We uncover a distinct form of nonequilibrium temporal order: self-similar quantum revivals in a many-body system driven by quasiperiodic spiral kicks, where the system recurrently…

quant-ph2026

Protecting Quantum Simulations of Lattice Gauge Theories through Engineered Emergent Hierarchical Symmetries

Zhanpeng Fu, Wei Zheng, Roderich Moessner +2

We present a strategy for the quantum simulation of many-body lattice models with constrained Hilbert spaces. We focus on lattice gauge theories (LGTs), which underlie a wide range…

cond-mat.stat-mech2026

Anomalous spin transport in integrable random quantum circuits

Songlei Wang, Chenguang Liang, Hongzheng Zhao +1

High-temperature spin transport in integrable quantum spin chains exhibits a rich dynamical phase diagram, including ballistic, superdiffusive, and diffusive regimes. While integra…

quant-ph2025

Prethermal gauge structure and surface growth in lattice gauge theories

Lukas Homeier, Andrea Pizzi, Hongzheng Zhao +3

Universal aspects of thermalization in interacting many-body systems are challenging to derive microscopically, especially in kinetically constrained models, yet their numerical st…

quant-ph2025

Preparation of cat states in many-body eigenbasis via non-local measurement

Ruoyu Yin, Hongzheng Zhao

Engineered dissipation offers a promising route to prepare correlated quantum many-body states that are otherwise difficult to access using purely unitary protocols. However, creat…

quant-ph2025

Engineering long-range and multi-body interactions via global kinetic constraints

Runmin Wu, Bing Yang, Pieter W. Claeys +1

Long-range and multi-body interactions are crucial for quantum simulation and quantum computation. Yet, their practical realization using elementary pairwise interactions remains a…

cond-mat.stat-mech2025★ 2 cited

Stable time rondeau crystals in dissipative many-body systems

Zhuocheng Ma, Jin Yan, Hongzheng Zhao +1

Driven systems offer the potential to realize a wide range of non-equilibrium phenomena that are inaccessible in static systems, such as the discrete time crystals. Time rondeau cr…

cond-mat.quant-gas2022★ 9 cited

Suppression of inter-band heating for random driving

Hongzheng Zhao, Johannes Knolle, Roderich Moessner +1

Heating to high-lying states strongly limits the experimental observation of driving induced non-equilibrium phenomena, particularly when the drive has a broad spectrum. Here we sh…

cond-mat.dis-nn2022★ 10 cited

Anomalous Random Multipolar Driven Insulators

Hongzheng Zhao, Mark S. Rudner, Roderich Moessner +1

It is by now well established that periodically driven quantum many-body systems can realize topological nonequilibrium phases without any equilibrium counterpart. Here we show tha…

cond-mat.dis-nn2021★ 16 cited

Localization persisting under aperiodic driving

Hongzheng Zhao, Florian Mintert, Johannes Knolle +1

Localization may survive in periodically driven (Floquet) quantum systems, but is generally unstable for aperiodic drives. In this work, we identify a hidden conservation law origi…

cond-mat.quant-gas2021★ 38 cited

Enhancing disorder-free localization through dynamically emergent local symmetries

Jad C. Halimeh, Lukas Homeier, Hongzheng Zhao +4

Disorder-free localization is a recently discovered phenomenon of nonergodicity that can emerge in quantum many-body systems hosting gauge symmetries when the initial state is prep…

cond-mat.dis-nn2021

Stabilizing Disorder-Free Localization

Jad C. Halimeh, Hongzheng Zhao, Philipp Hauke +1

Disorder-free localization is a paradigm of nonergodicity in translation-invariant quantum many-body systems hosting gauge symmetries. The quench dynamics starting from simple init…

cond-mat.quant-gas2021★ 14 cited

Confinement induced impurity states in spin chains

Joseph Vovrosh, Hongzheng Zhao, Johannes Knolle +1

Quantum simulators hold the promise of probing central questions of high-energy physics in tunable condensed matter platforms, for instance the physics of confinement. Local defect…