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Fidelity Decay Saturation Level for Initial Eigenstates

Quantum Physics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We show that the fidelity decay between an initial eigenstate state evolved under a unitary chaotic operator and the same eigenstate evolved under a perturbed operator saturates well before the 1/N limit, where NN is the size of the Hilbert space, expected for a generic initial state. We provide a theoretical argument and numerical evidence that, for intermediate perturbation strengths, the saturation level depends quadratically on the perturbation strength.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0210063,
  title  = {Fidelity Decay Saturation Level for Initial Eigenstates},
  author = {Yaakov S. Weinstein and Joseph V. Emerson and Seth Lloyd and David G. Cory},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0210063},
  year   = {2007}
}

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