Correspondence between Asymptotic Quantum Many-Body Scars in Closed Systems and Diffusive Nambu-Goldstone Modes in Open Systems
Abstract
Hydrodynamic relaxation in open quantum many-body systems can be understood in terms of diffusive Nambu--Goldstone (NG) modes associated with strong-to-weak spontaneous symmetry breaking (SWSSB). Here, we find a common structure underlying weak ergodicity breaking in closed quantum systems and diffusive hydrodynamics in open quantum systems. We establish a spectral correspondence between the parent Hamiltonian of rainbow quantum many-body scar (RQMBS) states in closed systems and the effective Lindbladian of strongly dissipative open systems with strong U(1) symmetry and local charge-dephasing Lindblad operators. For broad classes of spin, fermionic, and bosonic systems, we construct asymptotic RQMBS (ARQMBS) states. Within the enlarged scar subspace, the parent Hamiltonian admits a local Rokhsar--Kivelson-type frustration-free decomposition. A single-mode variational construction gives an O(k2) upper bound on its lowest excitation energy and yields states satisfying the defining ARQMBS criteria: orthogonality, vanishing energy variance, and characteristic entanglement scaling. Under vectorization, RQMBS states are mapped to maximally mixed infinite-temperature states in fixed-charge sectors, which exhibit long-range SWSSB order under finite-density conditions. Assuming uniformly bounded positive transition rates, the effective Lindbladian has the same local projectors as the parent Hamiltonian but with positive transition-dependent weights, yielding two-sided spectral bounds and the same system-size scaling of their gaps. For uniform rates, the two operators are proportional to each other and their eigenmodes coincide. Therefore, an exact quadratic parent-Hamiltonian branch maps directly to a diffusive NG mode. Our results connect different mechanisms of slow relaxation in closed and open quantum many-body systems.
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BibTeX
@misc{kunimi2026correspondence,
title = {{Correspondence between Asymptotic Quantum Many-Body Scars in Closed Systems and Diffusive Nambu-Goldstone Modes in Open Systems}},
author = {Masaya Kunimi and Taiki Haga and Masaya Nakagawa},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.09662},
eprint = {2610.09662},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.09662},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Correspondence between Asymptotic Quantum Many-Body Scars in Closed Systems and Diffusive Nambu-Goldstone Modes in Open Systems
AU - Masaya Kunimi
AU - Taiki Haga
AU - Masaya Nakagawa
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/13
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.09662
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.09662
AB - Hydrodynamic relaxation in open quantum many-body systems can be understood in terms of diffusive Nambu--Goldstone (NG) modes associated with strong-to-weak spontaneous symmetry breaking (SWSSB). Here, we find a common structure underlying weak ergodicity breaking in closed quantum systems and diffusive hydrodynamics in open quantum systems. We establish a spectral correspondence between the parent Hamiltonian of rainbow quantum many-body scar (RQMBS) states in closed systems and the effective Lindbladian of strongly dissipative open systems with strong U(1) symmetry and local charge-dephasing Lindblad operators. For broad classes of spin, fermionic, and bosonic systems, we construct asymptotic RQMBS (ARQMBS) states. Within the enlarged scar subspace, the parent Hamiltonian admits a local Rokhsar--Kivelson-type frustration-free decomposition. A single-mode variational construction gives an O(k^2) upper bound on its lowest excitation energy and yields states satisfying the defining ARQMBS criteria: orthogonality, vanishing energy variance, and characteristic entanglement scaling. Under vectorization, RQMBS states are mapped to maximally mixed infinite-temperature states in fixed-charge sectors, which exhibit long-range SWSSB order under finite-density conditions. Assuming uniformly bounded positive transition rates, the effective Lindbladian has the same local projectors as the parent Hamiltonian but with positive transition-dependent weights, yielding two-sided spectral bounds and the same system-size scaling of their gaps. For uniform rates, the two operators are proportional to each other and their eigenmodes coincide. Therefore, an exact quadratic parent-Hamiltonian branch maps directly to a diffusive NG mode. Our results connect different mechanisms of slow relaxation in closed and open quantum many-body systems.
ER -