Many-Body Bound States in the Continuum

2026-10-28 · arXiv Quantum Physics

arXiv:2307.05456v3 Announce Type: replace

Abstract: A bound state in the continuum (BIC) is a spatially localized energy eigenstate embedded in a continuous spectrum of extended eigenstates. While diverse types of single-particle BICs have been reported in the literature, understanding how such localization persists in interacting many-body systems remains a fundamental problem. Here, we present numerical evidence and a perturbative analysis supporting the existence of many-body BICs in a one-dimensional Bose-Hubbard chain with an attractive impurity potential, a system previously known to host a BIC in the two-particle sector. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the Bethe-type construction of the known two-particle BIC breaks down already for three particles even for arbitrary finite superpositions of Bethe waves. The resulting BICs violate the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis for several local one- and two-body observables, leading to nonthermal dynamics from experimentally accessible initial states.

原文链接:https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.05456

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