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arxiv 1903.10517 v2 pith:KJBZTGNA submitted 2019-03-25 cond-mat.str-el cond-mat.quant-gascond-mat.stat-mechquant-ph

Quantum Many-Body Scars and Space-Time Crystalline Order from Magnon Condensation

classification cond-mat.str-el cond-mat.quant-gascond-mat.stat-mechquant-ph
keywords eigenstatesscarredorderchaincrystallineinterpretationmagnonsmany-body
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We study the eigenstate properties of a nonintegrable spin chain that was recently realized experimentally in a Rydberg-atom quantum simulator. In the experiment, long-lived coherent many-body oscillations were observed only when the system was initialized in a particular product state. This pronounced coherence has been attributed to the presence of special "scarred" eigenstates with nearly equally-spaced energies and putative nonergodic properties despite their finite energy density. In this paper we uncover a surprising connection between these scarred eigenstates and low-lying quasiparticle excitations of the spin chain. In particular, we show that these eigenstates can be accurately captured by a set of variational states containing a macroscopic number of magnons with momentum $\pi$. This leads to an interpretation of the scarred eigenstates as finite-energy-density condensates of weakly interacting $\pi$-magnons. One natural consequence of this interpretation is that the scarred eigenstates possess long-range order in both space and time, providing a rare example of the spontaneous breaking of continuous time-translation symmetry. We verify numerically the presence of this space-time crystalline order and explain how it is consistent with established no-go theorems precluding its existence in ground states and at thermal equilibrium.

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