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Fragmented eigenstate thermalization versus robust integrability in long-range models

URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00077v1
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2025 18:11:04 GMT
Title: Fragmented eigenstate thermalization versus robust integrability in long-range models
Authors: Soumya Kanti Pal, Lea F Santos,
Abstract summary: We show that integrability in fully connected quantum systems is either robust or extremely fragile depending on the perturbation.<n>In this case, chaos emerges within quasi-symmetry sectors, leading to a fragmented manifestation of the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH)<n>This challenges previous claims of ETH violation in quantum systems with strong long-range interactions.
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Abstract: Understanding the stability of integrability in many-body quantum systems is key to controlling their dynamics and predicting thermalization. While much is known about how integrability breaks down in short-range interacting systems, the corresponding picture for long-range couplings remains incomplete. Yet long-range interactions are both ubiquitous in nature and readily engineered in modern experimental platforms. Here, we show that integrability in fully connected models is either robust or extremely fragile depending on whether the perturbation is non-extensive, extensive one-body, or extensive two-body. In a finite system with short-range interactions, any of these perturbations can induce chaos when applied with finite strength. In contrast, in fully connected finite models, chaos is induced by extensive two-body perturbations, and they do so even at infinitesimal strength. In this case, chaos emerges within quasi-symmetry sectors, leading to a fragmented manifestation of the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH). This challenges previous claims of ETH violation in quantum systems with strong long-range interactions.

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