Catching Bethe phantoms and quantum many-body scars: Long-lived spin-helix states in Heisenberg magnets

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2110.12043v1
• Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2021 20:16:14 GMT
• Title: Catching Bethe phantoms and quantum many-body scars: Long-lived spin-helix states in Heisenberg magnets
• Authors: Paul Niklas Jepsen and Yoo Kyung Lee and Hanzhen Lin and Ivana Dimitrova and Yair Margalit and Wen Wei Ho and Wolfgang Ketterle
• Abstract summary: We show experimentally in anisotropic Heisenberg chains that special helical spin patterns can have very long lifetimes. This finding confirms the recent prediction of phantom Bethe states, exact many-body eigenstates carrying finite momenta yet no energy.
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• Abstract: Exact solutions for quantum many-body systems are rare and provide valuable insight to universal phenomena. Here we show experimentally in anisotropic Heisenberg chains that special helical spin patterns can have very long lifetimes. This finding confirms the recent prediction of phantom Bethe states, exact many-body eigenstates carrying finite momenta yet no energy. We theoretically find analogous stable spin helices in higher dimensions and in other non-integrable systems, where they imply non-thermalizing dynamics associated with quantum many-body scars. We use phantom spin helices to directly measure the interaction anisotropy which has a major contribution from short-range off-site interactions that have not been observed before. Phantom helix states open new opportunities for quantum simulations of spin physics and studies of many-body dynamics.

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