Universal dynamics from a single-particle dark state (opens in new tab)

Open quantum systems can host dark or subradiant states whose decay is highly suppressed. While these states have been extensively studied in the few-excitation regime, their impact on the many-body dynamics remains largely unexplored. Here, we study a spin chain subject to correlated dissipation on neighboring sites, which admits a single-particle dark state at zero momentum. We show that the single-particle dark state qualitatively alters the ...