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Independent stabilizer R\'enyi entropy and entanglement fluctuations in random unitary circuits

Quantum Physics 2026-01-30 v2

Abstract

We investigate numerically the joint distribution of magic (MM) and entanglement (SS) in NN-qubit Haar-random quantum states. The distribution PN(M,S)P_N(M,S) as well as the marginals become exponentially localized, and centered around the values M2~N2\tilde{M_2} \to N-2 and S~N/2\tilde{S} \to N/2 as NN\to\infty. Magic and entanglement fluctuations are, however, found to become exponentially uncorrelated. Although exponentially many states with magic M2=0M_2=0 and entropy SSHaarS\approx S_\text{Haar} exist, they represent an exponentially small fraction compared to typical quantum states, which are characterized by large magic and entanglement entropy, and uncorrelated magic and entanglement fluctuations.

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@article{arxiv.2501.11489,
  title  = {Independent stabilizer R\'enyi entropy and entanglement fluctuations in random unitary circuits},
  author = {Dominik Szombathy and Angelo Valli and Cătălin Paşcu Moca and Lóránt Farkas and Gergely Zaránd},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.11489},
  year   = {2026}
}

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6 pages, 7 figures