Genuine quantum scars in Floquet chaotic many-body systems

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2604.13164v1
• Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:00:01 GMT
• Title: Genuine quantum scars in Floquet chaotic many-body systems
• Abstract summary: We show that genuine quantum scarring competes with the drive in a Floquet many-body system.<n>We construct a rich dynamical stability diagram with intermediate-frequency regimes of enhanced and quenched scarring.<n>Our results position Floquet systems as a natural platform for tuning the scarring behavior of quantum many-body systems.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Unstable periodic orbits act as organizing structures for classical chaotic systems and underpin quantum scarring. Long known in single-particle systems, genuine quantum scars based on unstable periodic orbits have been recently extended to isolated many-body systems for time-independent Hamiltonians. Their fate under periodic driving, however, remains largely uncharted, challenged by the expectation that these systems should in general heat to infinite temperature. Here, we investigate how genuine scarring competes with the drive in a Floquet many-body system. Using chaotic spin chains, we demonstrate that Floquet states remain scarred in the high-frequency limit. Beyond this static correspondence, we uncover additional, driving-induced Floquet scars with no static analog. We construct a rich dynamical stability diagram with intermediate-frequency regimes of enhanced and quenched scarring, which we understand with a classical analysis of the Lyapunov exponent. Our results position Floquet systems as a natural platform for tuning the scarring behavior of quantum many-body systems.

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