Non-Ergodic Quantum Matter: Universality, Dynamics and Control

Optimal steering of matrix product states and quantum many-body scars
M. Ljubotina, B. Roos, D.A. Abanin, M. Serbyn, PRX Quantum 3 (2022).

Stabilizing two-dimensional quantum scars by deformation and synchronization
A. Michailidis, C.J. Turner, Z. Papić, D.A. Abanin, M. Serbyn, Physical Review Research 2 (2020).

Superdiffusive energy transport in kinetically constrained models
M. Ljubotina, J.Y. Desaules, M. Serbyn, Z. Papić, Physical Review X 13 (2023).

Entanglement and precession in two-dimensional dynamical quantum phase transitions
S. De Nicola, A. Michailidis, M. Serbyn, Physical Review B 105 (2022).

Propagation of many-body localization in an Anderson insulator
P. Brighi, A.A. Michailidis, D.A. Abanin, M. Serbyn, Physical Review B 105 (2022).

Absence of thermalization of free systems coupled to gapped interacting reservoirs
M. Ljubotina, D. Roy, T. Prosen, Physical Review B 106 (2022).

Many-body localization proximity effect in a two-species bosonic Hubbard model
P. Brighi, M. Ljubotina, D.A. Abanin, M. Serbyn, Physical Review B 108 (2023).

Controlling quantum many-body dynamics in driven Rydberg atom arrays
D. Bluvstein, A. Omran, H. Levine, A. Keesling, G. Semeghini, S. Ebadi, T.T. Wang, A. Michailidis, N. Maskara, W.W. Ho, S. Choi, M. Serbyn, M. Greiner, V. Vuletić, M.D. Lukin, Science 371 (2021) 1355–1359.

Area-law entangled eigenstates from nullspaces of local Hamiltonians
V. Karle, M. Serbyn, A. Michailidis, Physical Review Letters 127 (2021).

Discrete time-crystalline order enabled by quantum many-body scars: Entanglement steering via periodic driving
N. Maskara, A. Michailidis, W.W. Ho, D. Bluvstein, S. Choi, M.D. Lukin, M. Serbyn, Physical Review Letters 127 (2021).

Thouless energy across the many-body localization transition in Floquet systems
M. Sonner, M. Serbyn, Z. Papić, D.A. Abanin, Physical Review B 104 (2021).

Entanglement transitions from restricted Boltzmann machines
R.A. Medina Ramos, R. Vasseur, M. Serbyn, Physical Review B 104 (2021).

Duality approach to quantum annealing of the 3-variable exclusive-or satisfiability problem (3-XORSAT)
R.A. Medina Ramos, M. Serbyn, Physical Review A 104 (2021).

Stability of mobility edges in disordered interacting systems
P. Brighi, D.A. Abanin, M. Serbyn, Physical Review B 102 (2020).

Entanglement view of dynamical quantum phase transitions
S. De Nicola, A. Michailidis, M. Serbyn, Physical Review Letters 126 (2021).

Localization of a mobile impurity interacting with an Anderson insulator
P. Brighi, A. Michailidis, K. Kirova, D.A. Abanin, M. Serbyn, Physical Review B 105 (2022).

Ergodicity breaking in disordered and kinetically constrained quantum many-body systems
P. Brighi, Ergodicity Breaking in Disordered and Kinetically Constrained Quantum Many-Body Systems, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023.

Hilbert space fragmentation and slow dynamics in particle-conserving quantum East models
P. Brighi, M. Ljubotina, M. Serbyn, SciPost Physics 15 (2023).

Recursive greedy initialization of the quantum approximate optimization algorithm with guaranteed improvement
S. Sack, R.A. Medina Ramos, R. Kueng, M. Serbyn, Physical Review A 107 (2023).

Avoiding barren plateaus using classical shadows
S. Sack, R.A. Medina Ramos, A. Michailidis, R. Kueng, M. Serbyn, PRX Quantum 3 (2022).

Quantum annealing initialization of the quantum approximate optimization algorithm
S. Sack, M. Serbyn, Quantum 5 (2021).

Improving variational quantum algorithms: Innovative initialization techniques and extensions to qudit systems
S. Sack, Improving Variational Quantum Algorithms: Innovative Initialization Techniques and Extensions to Qudit Systems, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023.

Quantum many-body scars and weak breaking of ergodicity
M. Serbyn, D.A. Abanin, Z. Papić, Nature Physics 17 (2021) 675–685.