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A note on typicality in random quantum scattering

Quantum Physics 2023-08-30 v1 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

We consider scattering processes where a quantum system is comprised of an inner subsystem and of a boundary, and is subject to Haar-averaged random unitaries acting on the boundary-environment Hilbert space only. We show that, regardless of the initial state, a single scattering event will disentangle the unconditional state (i.e., the scattered state when no information about the applied unitary is available) across the inner subsystem-boundary partition. Also, we apply Levy's lemma to constrain the trace norm fluctuations around the unconditional state. Finally, we derive analytical formulae for the mean scattered purity for initial globally pure states, and provide one with numerical evidence of the reduction of fluctuations around such mean values with increasing environmental dimension.

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@article{arxiv.2308.15463,
  title  = {A note on typicality in random quantum scattering},
  author = {Michele Avalle and Alessio Serafini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.15463},
  year   = {2023}
}

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12 pages (5 pages of main text + 7 pages of appendices)

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