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Chaos and magic in the dissipative quantum kicked top

Quantum Physics 2025-04-29 v4

Abstract

We consider an infinite-range interacting quantum spin-1/2 model, undergoing periodic kicking and dissipatively coupled with an environment. In the thermodynamic limit, it is described by classical mean-field equations that can show regular and chaotic regimes. At finite size, we describe the system dynamics using stochastic quantum trajectories. We find that the asymptotic nonstabilizerness (alias the magic, a measure of quantum complexity), averaged over trajectories, mirrors to some extent the classical chaotic behavior, while the entanglement entropy has no relation with chaos in the thermodynamic limit.

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@article{arxiv.2406.16585,
  title  = {Chaos and magic in the dissipative quantum kicked top},
  author = {Gianluca Passarelli and Procolo Lucignano and Davide Rossini and Angelo Russomanno},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.16585},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

16 pages, 15 figures, final version, accepted in Quantum; fixed a typo in Eq. (11)