Quantum memory at nonzero temperature in a thermodynamically trivial system

Y Hong, J Guo, A Lucas - Nature Communications, 2025 - nature.com
Passive error correction protects logical information forever (in the thermodynamic limit) by
updating the system based only on local information and few-body interactions. A …

Eigenstate localization in a many-body quantum system

C Yin, R Nandkishore, A Lucas - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
We prove the existence of extensive many-body Hamiltonians with few-body interactions
and a many-body mobility edge: all eigenstates below a nonzero energy density are …

Glassy word problems: ultraslow relaxation, Hilbert space jamming, and computational complexity

S Balasubramanian, S Gopalakrishnan… - Physical Review X, 2024 - APS
We introduce a family of local models of dynamics based on “word problems” from computer
science and group theory, for which we can place rigorous lower bounds on relaxation …

Hilbert space fragmentation in open quantum systems

Y Li, P Sala, F Pollmann - Physical Review Research, 2023 - APS
We investigate the phenomenon of Hilbert space fragmentation (HSF) in open quantum
systems and find that it can stabilize highly entangled steady states. For concreteness, we …

Emergent symmetries in prethermal phases of periodically driven quantum systems

T Banerjee, K Sengupta - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2025 - iopscience.iop.org
Periodically driven closed quantum systems are expected to eventually heat up to infinite
temperature; reaching a steady state described by a circular orthogonal ensemble (COE) …

Topologically stable ergodicity breaking from emergent higher-form symmetries in generalized quantum loop models

C Stahl, R Nandkishore, O Hart - SciPost Physics, 2024 - scipost.org
We present a set of generalized quantum loop models that provably exhibit topologically
stable ergodicity breaking. These results hold for both periodic and open boundary …

Robust Hilbert space fragmentation in group-valued loop models

A Khudorozhkov, C Stahl, O Hart, R Nandkishore - Physical Review B, 2025 - APS
We introduce a large class of models exhibiting robust ergodicity breaking in quantum
dynamics. Our work is inspired by recent discussions of “topologically robust Hilbert space …

Theory of metastable states in many-body quantum systems

C Yin, FM Surace, A Lucas - arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.05261, 2024 - arxiv.org
We present a mathematical theory of metastable pure states in closed many-body quantum
systems with finite-dimensional Hilbert space. Given a Hamiltonian, a pure state is defined to …

Subspace-restricted thermalization in a correlated-hopping model with strong Hilbert space fragmentation characterized by irreducible strings

S Aditya, D Dhar, D Sen - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
We introduce a one-dimensional correlated-hopping model of spinless fermions in which a
particle can hop between two neighboring sites only if the sites to the left and right of those …

Signatures of fragmentation for periodically driven fermions

S Ghosh, I Paul, K Sengupta - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
We study the possible signatures of prethermal strong Hilbert space fragmentation (HSF) for
one-dimensional (1D) fermions subjected to a periodic drive. We extend the results of Ghosh …