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 zero-magic 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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• Eigenstate thermalization
• Lattice gauge theory
• Quantum scars
• Quantum many-body systems