Quantum many-body scars with tunable entanglement and Hamiltonian inverse design from ZX-calculus
Abstract
Diagrammatic languages such as ZX-calculus provide compact and intuitive descriptions of quantum processes and have become established tools for circuit simplification, verification, and compilation. However, their potential as a framework for constructing many-body states and the Hamiltonians that host them remains largely unexplored. Here, we introduce families of fractal many-body states obtained from ZX-diagrams based on the Sierpiński triangle and Sierpiński carpet. By construction, the underlying graph connectivity imposes atypical subvolume-law minimum-cut upper bounds on entanglement: at most logarithmic scaling for the triangle family and sublinear power-law for the carpet family. By adjusting the free parameters of the ZX-diagram construction, we can tune the actual entanglement scaling: we demonstrate both area-law and logarithmic scaling for the triangle, and both log law and power-law for the carpet. Additionally, their local observables retain fractal-like spatial structure, identifying these states as natural candidates for atypical eigenstates in otherwise thermalizing systems. For the triangle family, we combine parent-Hamiltonian methods, insights from ZX-calculus, and local ZX identities that certify exact annihilation of the target state, producing frustration-free Hamiltonians whose terms admit simple representations in the same diagrammatic language as the states themselves. We then construct a local deformation that produces chaotic level statistics while embedding the fractal ZX state in the bulk of the energy spectrum as an exact quantum many-body scar. Our results demonstrate, through this explicit construction, that ZX-calculus can serve as a framework for Hamiltonian inverse design, in which quantum many-body scars, their local annihilators, and the chaotic Hamiltonians embedding them can be constructed and related through a set of graphical identities.
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BibTeX
@misc{szyniszewski2026quantum,
title = {{Quantum many-body scars with tunable entanglement and Hamiltonian inverse design from ZX-calculus}},
author = {Marcin Szyniszewski},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2607.22495},
eprint = {2607.22495},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.22495},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Quantum many-body scars with tunable entanglement and Hamiltonian inverse design from ZX-calculus
AU - Marcin Szyniszewski
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/05
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2607.22495
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.22495
AB - Diagrammatic languages such as ZX-calculus provide compact and intuitive descriptions of quantum processes and have become established tools for circuit simplification, verification, and compilation. However, their potential as a framework for constructing many-body states and the Hamiltonians that host them remains largely unexplored. Here, we introduce families of fractal many-body states obtained from ZX-diagrams based on the Sierpiński triangle and Sierpiński carpet. By construction, the underlying graph connectivity imposes atypical subvolume-law minimum-cut upper bounds on entanglement: at most logarithmic scaling for the triangle family and sublinear power-law for the carpet family. By adjusting the free parameters of the ZX-diagram construction, we can tune the actual entanglement scaling: we demonstrate both area-law and logarithmic scaling for the triangle, and both log law and power-law for the carpet. Additionally, their local observables retain fractal-like spatial structure, identifying these states as natural candidates for atypical eigenstates in otherwise thermalizing systems. For the triangle family, we combine parent-Hamiltonian methods, insights from ZX-calculus, and local ZX identities that certify exact annihilation of the target state, producing frustration-free Hamiltonians whose terms admit simple representations in the same diagrammatic language as the states themselves. We then construct a local deformation that produces chaotic level statistics while embedding the fractal ZX state in the bulk of the energy spectrum as an exact quantum many-body scar. Our results demonstrate, through this explicit construction, that ZX-calculus can serve as a framework for Hamiltonian inverse design, in which quantum many-body scars, their local annihilators, and the chaotic Hamiltonians embedding them can be constructed and related through a set of graphical identities.
ER -