Nonergodicity from Hilbert-Subspace Cloning

Yuuya Chiba; Ryusuke Hamazaki

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Nonergodicity from Hilbert-Subspace Cloning

Yuuya Chiba·Ryusuke Hamazaki

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We identify a class of nonintegrable quantum many-body systems composed of single Pauli strings that possess an extensive number of noncommuting local conserved quantities and exhibit partial ergodicity breaking due to exponentially degenerate energy spectra. We show that such systems exhibit a novel mechanism, Hilbert-subspace cloning, where the identical chaotic Hamiltonian acts on each of exponentially many disconnected Hilbert subspaces. Although the dynamics within each clone thermalizes, quantum coherence between clones remains protected and detectable by local observables. Consequently, the long-time behavior of local observables is described by a coherence-preserving partial Gibbs ensemble, where the hidden subsystem retains its initial quantum coherence.

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Yuuya Chiba, Ryusuke Hamazaki. 2026-10-16. Nonergodicity from Hilbert-Subspace Cloning. https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.23105

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