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Non-Local Magic from the Entanglement Spectrum

Quantum Physics 2026-07-08 v1

Abstract

Non-local magic has recently emerged as a fundamental resource for characterizing genuinely non-local non-stabilizer correlations. However, its direct calculation is an intractable numerical problem, except for small systems, and its understanding remains limited. We derive a representation of non-local magic in terms of the Walsh--Hadamard autocorrelations of the entanglement spectrum. Our representation makes the underlying harmonic structure explicit and enables a systematic analysis of its behaviors for various scenarios. We prove that non-local magic can be upper-bounded by an entanglement entropy and we derive exact analytical results for broad classes of quantum states, characterizing the scaling of non-local magic for volume-law states, as well as ground states of one-dimensional gapped and critical systems. Our results identify the spectral organization of the entanglement spectrum as the key ingredient governing non-local magic and provide a framework for further systematic analytical investigation.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2607.07808,
  title  = {Non-Local Magic from the Entanglement Spectrum},
  author = {Gianpaolo Torre and Fabio Franchini and Salvatore Marco Giampaolo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.07808},
  year   = {2026}
}
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