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  1. Quantum many-body scars are eigenstates in nonintegrable isolated quantum systems that defy typical thermalization paradigms, violating the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis and quantum ergodicity. We identify exact analytic scar solutions in a 2 + 1 dimensional lattice gauge theory in a quasi-1D limit as zeromagic resource stabilizer states. Our results also highlight the importance of magic resources for gauge theory thermalization, revealing a connection between computational complexity and quantum ergodicity. 
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    Motivated by recent work showing that a quantum error correcting code can be generated by hybrid dynamics of unitaries and measurements, we study the long time behavior of such systems. We demonstrate that even in the ``mixed'' phase, a maximally mixed initial density matrix is purified on a time scale equal to the Hilbert space dimension (i.e., exponential in system size), albeit with noisy dynamics at intermediate times which we connect to Dyson Brownian motion. In contrast, we show that free fermion systems — i.e., ones where the unitaries are generated by quadratic Hamiltonians and the measurements are of fermion bilinears — purify in a time quadratic in the system size. In particular, a volume law phase for the entanglement entropy cannot be sustained in a free fermion system. 
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