Quantum Chaos with a Macroscopic Zero-Mode Sector

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.09504v1
• Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2026 15:17:05 GMT
• Title: Quantum Chaos with a Macroscopic Zero-Mode Sector
• Abstract summary: Chaotic many-body spectra are expected to densely fill their energy window.<n>We show that constrained spin chains with chiral symmetry evade this expectation by hosting an exponentially large manifold of symmetry-protected exact zero modes.
• Score: 36.947315248138345
• License: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
• Abstract: Chaotic many-body spectra are expected to densely fill their energy window. We show that constrained spin chains with chiral symmetry evade this expectation by hosting an exponentially large manifold of symmetry-protected exact zero modes separated from the surrounding spectrum by a sharp gap at zero energy. The gap is generated by chaotic level repulsion, with width set by the number of zero modes times the mean level spacing. We verify this mechanism in an East-West kinetically constrained chain, develop a minimal random-matrix description, and show how the gap can be detected through linear-response spectroscopy.

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