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Quasi-Nambu-Goldstone modes in many-body scar models

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Quasisymmetry of the scar tower determines collective modes in many-body scar systems in the degenerate limit.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper shows that many-body scar models universally host collective coherent excitation modes when the scar tower becomes degenerate, meaning energy spacings vanish. These modes, called quasi-Nambu-Goldstone modes, have their number and quantum numbers fixed by the quasisymmetry of the scar tower instead of the Hamiltonian symmetry. A reader would care because this creates a direct parallel to how spontaneous symmetry breaking produces Goldstone modes, offering a new way to classify excitations in scarred many-body systems.

Core claim

From the quasisymmetry-group perspective, many-body scar models in the degenerate limit where energy spacing in the scar tower vanishes exhibit collective, coherent modes of excitations. The number of these modes and the quantum numbers they carry are determined by the quasisymmetry of the scar tower, not by the symmetry of the Hamiltonian. This establishes a concrete analogy between the paradigm of spontaneous symmetry breaking and many-body scar physics in the degenerate limit.

What carries the argument

The quasisymmetry of the scar tower, which fixes the properties of the quasi-Nambu-Goldstone modes in the degenerate limit.

If this is right

  • The modes exist universally across many-body scar models in the degenerate limit.
  • The number of modes is given by the quasisymmetry rather than Hamiltonian symmetry.
  • The quantum numbers carried by the modes follow the quasisymmetry.
  • This draws an analogy to spontaneous symmetry breaking for scar physics.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • These modes could be observed in experimental realizations of scar models tuned to degeneracy.
  • The framework might extend to classify excitations even when spacing is small but nonzero.
  • Connections to other symmetry-based phenomena in systems with constrained dynamics may emerge.

Load-bearing premise

The quasisymmetry-group perspective applies directly to many-body scar models and the degenerate limit is a physically relevant regime.

What would settle it

Calculate or measure the low-energy excitation spectrum in a specific many-body scar model with vanishing scar tower spacing and verify if the number and quantum numbers of collective modes match those predicted by the scar tower's quasisymmetry.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2405.00785 by Chen Fang, Jie Ren, Yu-Peng Wang.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: FIG. 1: Spin-1/2 ferromagnetic scar model. (a) Bottom: [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: FIG. 2: (a)(b) Illustrations of two types of qNGMs for the generalized AKLT model defined in Eq.( [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: FIG. 3: Level statistics and entanglement entropy in ferromagnetic scar models Eq. ( [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: FIG. 4: Bottom: Spectral function [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: FIG. 6: Energy expectation [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: FIG. 7: Energy expectation [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p019_7.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: FIG. 8: Energy expectation [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_8.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: FIG. 9: Top: Spectrum of the [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p021_9.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: FIG. 10: Scar dynamics (for system size [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p023_10.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 13. Figure 13: FIG. 13: One-period fidelity [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p024_13.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 12. Figure 12: FIG. 12: Scar dynamics initiated from [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p024_12.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 14. Figure 14: FIG. 14: Exact diagonalization of a finite system with [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p025_14.png] view at source ↗
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From the quasisymmetry-group perspective [Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 120604 (2021)], we show the universal existence of collective, coherent modes of excitations in many-body scar models in the degenerate limit, where the energy spacing in the scar tower vanishes. The number of these modes, as well as the quantum numbers carried by them, are given, not by the symmetry of the Hamiltonian, but by the quasisymmetry of the scar tower: hence the name quasi-Nambu-Goldstone modes. Based on this, we draw a concrete analogy between the paradigm of spontaneous symmetry breaking and the many-body scar physics in the degenerate limit.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript claims that, from the quasisymmetry-group perspective of Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 120604 (2021), many-body scar models exhibit a universal existence of collective, coherent excitation modes (quasi-Nambu-Goldstone modes) in the degenerate limit where scar-tower energy spacing vanishes. The number and quantum numbers of these modes are fixed by the quasisymmetry of the scar tower (not the Hamiltonian symmetry), establishing a concrete analogy to spontaneous symmetry breaking.

Significance. If the mapping is rigorously established, the result supplies a symmetry-based classification of collective modes in scarred systems and a conceptual bridge between scar physics and SSB, which could guide searches for observable signatures in the degenerate regime.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract/Introduction] Abstract and Introduction: the central universality claim rests on direct applicability of the 2021 quasisymmetry construction to scar towers, yet no explicit verification is supplied that the (typically approximate) scar subspace satisfies the exact eigenspace conditions of that framework once spacing vanishes; this is load-bearing for the stated result.
  2. [Main text (quasisymmetry application)] The derivation of the mode count and quantum numbers from the tower quasisymmetry (rather than Hamiltonian symmetry) is asserted without an explicit operator construction or counting argument showing how the degenerate limit produces these modes; this step is required to substantiate the SSB analogy.
minor comments (2)
  1. The distinction between 'quasi-Nambu-Goldstone' and ordinary Nambu-Goldstone modes could be sharpened with a short comparison table or paragraph.
  2. A concrete example (specific scar Hamiltonian and tower) illustrating the mode spectrum would help readers assess the claim.

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We thank the referee for the careful reading and constructive comments on our manuscript. We address the major comments point by point below, and will incorporate clarifications in a revised version.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract/Introduction] Abstract and Introduction: the central universality claim rests on direct applicability of the 2021 quasisymmetry construction to scar towers, yet no explicit verification is supplied that the (typically approximate) scar subspace satisfies the exact eigenspace conditions of that framework once spacing vanishes; this is load-bearing for the stated result.

    Authors: We agree that explicit verification strengthens the universality claim. In the degenerate limit the scar tower is defined to have vanishing energy spacing, rendering the subspace an exact eigenspace of the projected Hamiltonian. The quasisymmetry generators commute with this effective Hamiltonian by construction, satisfying the exact conditions of the 2021 framework. We will add a short paragraph in the revised introduction that states this limit explicitly and verifies the eigenspace condition for the scar models under consideration. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Main text (quasisymmetry application)] The derivation of the mode count and quantum numbers from the tower quasisymmetry (rather than Hamiltonian symmetry) is asserted without an explicit operator construction or counting argument showing how the degenerate limit produces these modes; this step is required to substantiate the SSB analogy.

    Authors: The mode count and quantum numbers follow from the representation theory of the quasisymmetry group on the degenerate tower. To address the request for explicitness, we will insert a dedicated paragraph that constructs the modes by acting with the broken quasisymmetry generators on the scar states (directly analogous to the Goldstone construction) and supplies a counting argument based on the dimension of the broken generators. This addition will make the SSB analogy fully explicit without altering the original results. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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Central claim applies quasisymmetry framework from 2021 PRL to scar towers but does not independently derive its validity in the degenerate limit

full rationale

The paper's strongest claim is that quasi-Nambu-Goldstone modes exist universally in scar models once the tower becomes degenerate, with mode count and quantum numbers fixed by the tower's quasisymmetry rather than the Hamiltonian symmetry. This is explicitly introduced as following from the quasisymmetry-group perspective of the cited PRL. No equations in the provided abstract or description reduce any derived quantity to a fit or self-definition within this paper; the derivation chain therefore remains externally anchored. The citation may or may not involve author overlap, but even if it does the central result still contains independent content (application to scar models and the degenerate-limit analogy to SSB). This matches a minor self-citation load that is not load-bearing for the entire derivation, yielding score 4 with no steps that meet the strict reduction criterion.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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The claim rests on the domain assumption that the 2021 quasisymmetry framework transfers to scar models and on the conceptual introduction of quasi-Nambu-Goldstone modes without independent falsifiable evidence beyond the analogy.

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  • domain assumption The quasisymmetry-group perspective of Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 120604 (2021) applies to many-body scar models.
    The paper explicitly builds its result on this prior framework.
invented entities (1)
  • quasi-Nambu-Goldstone modes no independent evidence
    purpose: Collective coherent excitations in the degenerate scar limit whose quantum numbers are set by scar-tower quasisymmetry.
    Conceptual naming and definition introduced in the abstract; no independent evidence or falsifiable prediction supplied.

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