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Quantum Complexity and Chaos in Many-Qudit Doped Clifford Circuits

Quantum Physics 2025-12-24 v5 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

We investigate the emergence of quantum complexity and chaos in doped Clifford circuits acting on qudits of odd prime dimension dd. Using doped Clifford Weingarten calculus and a replica tensor network formalism, we derive exact results and perform large-scale simulations in regimes challenging for tensor network and Pauli-based methods. We begin by analyzing generalized stabilizer entropies, computable magic monotones in many-qudit systems, and identify a dynamical phase transition in the doping rate, marking the breakdown of classical simulability and the onset of Haar-random behavior. The critical behavior is governed by the qudit dimension and the magic content of the non-Clifford gate. Using the qudit TT-gate as a benchmark, we show that higher-dimensional qudits converge faster to Haar-typical stabilizer entropies. For qutrits (d=3d=3), analytical predictions match numerics on brickwork circuits, showing that locality plays a limited role in magic spreading. We also examine anticoncentration and entanglement growth, showing that O(logN)O(\log N) non-Clifford gates suffice for approximating Haar expectation values to precision ε\varepsilon, and relate antiflatness measures to stabilizer entropies in qutrit systems. Finally, we analyze out-of-time-order correlators and show that a finite density of non-Clifford gates is needed to induce chaos, with a sharp transition fixed by the local dimension, twice that of the magic transition. Altogether, these results establish a unified framework for diagnosing complexity in doped Clifford circuits and deepen our understanding of resource theories in multiqudit systems.

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@article{arxiv.2506.02127,
  title  = {Quantum Complexity and Chaos in Many-Qudit Doped Clifford Circuits},
  author = {Beatrice Magni and Xhek Turkeshi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.02127},
  year   = {2025}
}

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20 pages, 2 figures. Accepted version