Stabilizer Scars

Hartse, Jeremy [Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States)]; Fidkowski, Lukasz [Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States)]; Mueller, Niklas [Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States); Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM (United States)]

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Stabilizer Scars

Hartse, Jeremy [Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States)]·Fidkowski, Lukasz [Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States)]·Mueller, Niklas [Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States); Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM (United States)]

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Quantum many-body scars are eigenstates in nonintegrable isolated quantum systems that defy typical thermalization paradigms, violating the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis and quantum ergodicity. Here, we identify exact analytic scar solutions in a 2+1 dimensional lattice gauge theory in a quasi-1D limit as zero-magic resource stabilizer states. Our results also highlight the importance of magic resources for gauge theory thermalization, revealing a connection between computational complexity and quantum ergodicity.

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Hartse, Jeremy [Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States)], Fidkowski, Lukasz [Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States)], Mueller, Niklas [Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States); Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM (United States)]. 2025-08-06. Stabilizer Scars. https://doi.org/10.1103/n5hb-l5p5

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