Quantum Complexity in Constrained Many-Body Models: Scars, Fragmentation, and Chaos

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.16570v1
• Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2025 16:37:09 GMT
• Title: Quantum Complexity in Constrained Many-Body Models: Scars, Fragmentation, and Chaos
• Authors: Arkaprava Sil, Sudipto Singha Roy,
• Abstract summary: Kinetic constraints in quantum many-body systems give rise to quantum states, whose behavior strongly depends on the choice of initial conditions.<n>We study a family of kinetically constrained models, including the celebrated Quantum Game of Life.<n>We show that these models show robust chaotic behavior while also supporting Hilbert space fragmentation and quantum many-body scar states.
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• Abstract: Kinetic constraints in quantum many-body systems give rise to quantum states, whose behavior strongly depends on the choice of initial conditions. In recent years, these systems have drawn increasing interest because they provide insight into the mechanisms of thermalization and the situations where it can fail. In this work, we study a family of kinetically constrained models, including the celebrated Quantum Game of Life, from the perspective of quantum complexity, with a focus on entanglement, nonstabilizerness, and signatures of quantum chaos. By applying spectral diagnostics such as level statistics and spectral form factors, we demonstrate that these models show robust chaotic behavior while also supporting Hilbert space fragmentation and quantum many-body scar states. Remarkably, we find that even certain symmetry-resolved fragmented sectors can themselves host scarred eigenstates, highlighting the unexpected coexistence of chaos, scars, and fragmentation within the same family of Hamiltonians. To better understand these fragmented subspaces, we further characterize them using their quantum resource generation ability. In particular, we demonstrate that characterization of entanglement and the ability to generate nonstabilizerness can be instrumental in distinguishing different dynamically disconnected sectors.

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