Discrete solitons in Rydberg atom chains

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13196v1
• Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2025 15:07:58 GMT
• Title: Discrete solitons in Rydberg atom chains
• Authors: Aron Kerschbaumer, Jean-Yves Desaules, Marko Ljubotina, Maksym Serbyn,
• Abstract summary: We show existence of solitonic excitations in high-energy states of Rydberg atom chains.<n>These localized wave packets propagate directionally atop a special class of reviving initial states.<n>We conjecture their relevance for the anomalous energy transport reported in numerical studies of Rydberg atom arrays.
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• Abstract: Solitons - localized wave packets that travel without spreading - play a central role in understanding transport and properties of nonlinear systems, from optical fibers to fluid dynamics. In quantum many-body systems, however, such robust excitations are typically destroyed by thermalization. Here, we theoretically demonstrate the existence of solitonic excitations in high-energy states of Rydberg atom chains in the regime of strong nearest-neighbor Rydberg blockade. These localized wave packets propagate directionally atop a special class of reviving initial states related to quantum many-body scars and are capable of carrying energy. Exhibiting long coherence times, these states constitute a novel type of non-ergodic quantum dynamics and can be efficiently implemented on Rydberg atom simulators. In addition to a phenomenological description of solitons, we identify their counterpart in a classical nonlinear dynamical system obtained from a variational projection of the quantum dynamics. We demonstrate the potential use of solitons in quantum information transfer and conjecture their relevance for the anomalous energy transport reported in numerical studies of Rydberg atom arrays.

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