Area-law entangled eigenstates from nullspaces of local Hamiltonians

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2102.13633v2
• Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2021 15:07:09 GMT
• Title: Area-law entangled eigenstates from nullspaces of local Hamiltonians
• Authors: Volker Karle, Maksym Serbyn, Alexios A. Michailidis
• Abstract summary: Eigenstate thermalization in quantum many-body systems implies that eigenstates at high energy are similar to random vectors. We show that interacting quantum models that have a nullspace provide a route to non-thermal eigenstates.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Eigenstate thermalization in quantum many-body systems implies that eigenstates at high energy are similar to random vectors. Identifying systems where at least some eigenstates are non-thermal is an outstanding question. In this work we show that interacting quantum models that have a nullspace -- a degenerate subspace of eigenstates at zero energy (zero modes), which corresponds to infinite temperature, provide a route to non-thermal eigenstates. We analytically show the existence of a zero mode which can be represented as a matrix product state for a certain class of local Hamiltonians. In the more general case we use a subspace disentangling algorithm to generate an orthogonal basis of zero modes characterized by increasing entanglement entropy. We show evidence for an area-law entanglement scaling of the least entangled zero mode in the broad parameter regime, leading to a conjecture that all local Hamiltonians with the nullspace feature zero modes with area-law entanglement scaling, and as such, break the strong thermalization hypothesis. Finally, we find zero-modes in constrained models and propose setup for observing their experimental signatures.

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