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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

Exact strong-ETH violating eigenstates and quasiparticle descriptions of many-body scar states in the Rydberg-blockaded atom chain

Cheng-Ju Lin, Olexei I. Motrunich

Published Mar 5, 2019• 0 citations
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