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Quantum many-body mixed phase space revealed by hybrid feedback control

Quantum Physics 2026-07-15 v1 Statistical Mechanics Strongly Correlated Electrons Chaotic Dynamics

Abstract

Understanding how complex systems transition between order and chaos is a central challenge of nonequilibrium physics. While weak perturbations of classical integrable systems give rise to a mixed phase space of coexisting regular and chaotic trajectories, analogous behavior in interacting quantum many-body systems has remained elusive. Here we develop and experimentally implement a hybrid quantum-classical feedback protocol that autonomously discovers and stabilizes long-lived regular trajectories in a superconducting quantum processor. Each iteration combines short-time quantum evolution with classical optimization that projects the dynamics back onto a low-entanglement variational manifold, effectively distilling coherence from chaotic evolution. The stabilized trajectories reveal a quantum many-body mixed phase space emerging from nonlinear variational dynamics, without a direct analogue in classical or few-body quantum systems. Our results establish a versatile framework for algorithmic discovery and control of coherent dynamics previously inaccessible to experiment.

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@article{arxiv.2607.14223,
  title  = {Quantum many-body mixed phase space revealed by hybrid feedback control},
  author = {Hang Dong and Jie Ren and Andrew Hallam and Han Wang and Zhengyi Cui and Yiren Zou and Junlin Wang and Hekang Li and Qiujiang Guo and Zhen Wang and Lei Ying and Zlatko Papic},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.14223},
  year   = {2026}
}

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25 pages, 14 figures