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The nature of randomness and complexity growth in systems governed by unitary dynamics is a fundamental question in quantum many-body physics. This problem has motivated the study of models such as local random circuits and their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Laura Cui , Thomas Schuster , Liang Mao , Hsin-Yuan Huang , Fernando Brandao

We calculate the frame potential for Brownian clusters of $N$ spins or fermions with time-dependent all-to-all interactions. In both cases the problem can be mapped to an effective statistical mechanics problem which we study using a path…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-30 Shao-Kai Jian , Gregory Bentsen , Brian Swingle

Randomness generation through quantum-chaotic evolution underpins foundational questions in statistical mechanics and applications across quantum information science, including benchmarking, tomography, metrology, and demonstrations of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-01 Souradeep Ghosh , Nicholas Hunter-Jones , Joaquin F. Rodriguez-Nieva

Quantum complexity is a measure of the minimal number of elementary operations required to approximately prepare a given state or unitary channel. Recently, this concept has found applications beyond quantum computing -- in studying the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-22 Michał Oszmaniec , Marcin Kotowski , Michał Horodecki , Nicholas Hunter-Jones

Random quantum processes play a central role both in the study of fundamental mixing processes in quantum mechanics related to equilibration, thermalisation and fast scrambling by black holes, as well as in quantum process design and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-29 E. Onorati , O. Buerschaper , M. Kliesch , W. Brown , A. H. Werner , J. Eisert

The unitary design formation in random circuits has attracted considerable attention due to its wide range of practical applications and relevance to fundamental physics. While the formation rates in Haar random circuits have been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-05 Toshihiro Yada , Ryotaro Suzuki , Yosuke Mitsuhashi , Nobuyuki Yoshioka

The generation of certifiable randomness is the most fundamental information-theoretic task that meaningfully separates quantum devices from their classical counterparts. We propose a protocol for exponential certified randomness expansion…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-14 Matthew Coudron , Jalex Stark , Thomas Vidick

Unitary $k$-designs are central to quantum information and quantum many-body physics as efficient proxies for Haar-random dynamics. We study how chaotic Hamiltonian evolution can generate unitary $k$-designs. Standard approaches typically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-07 Yi-Neng Zhou , Tian-Gang Zhou , Julian Sonner

Time-reversal symmetry breaking and entropy production are universal features of nonequilibrium phenomena. Despite its importance in the physics of active and living systems, the entropy production of systems with many degrees of freedom…

We study the emergence of anticoncentration and approximate unitary design behavior in local Brownian circuits. The dynamics of circuit averaged moments of the probability distribution and entropies of the output state can be represented as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-21 Subhayan Sahu , Shao-Kai Jian

Local random circuits scramble efficiently and accordingly have a range of applications in quantum information and quantum dynamics. With a global $U(1)$ charge however, the scrambling ability is reduced; for example, such random circuits…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-23 Sumner N. Hearth , Michael O. Flynn , Anushya Chandran , Chris R. Laumann

Random quantum circuits are proficient information scramblers and efficient generators of randomness, rapidly approximating moments of the unitary group. We study the convergence of local random quantum circuits to unitary $k$-designs.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-31 Nicholas Hunter-Jones

The commutator between operators at different space and time has been a diagnostic for locality of unitary evolution. Most existing results are either for specific tractable (random) Hamiltonians(Out-of-Time-Order-Correlators calculations),…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 Chi-Fang Chen

We investigate circuit complexity of unitaries generated by time evolution of randomly chosen strongly interacting Hamiltonians in finite dimensional Hilbert spaces. Specifically, we focus on two ensembles of random generators -- the so…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-04 Marcin Kotowski , Michał Oszmaniec , Michał Horodecki

We provide new constructions of unitary $t$-designs for general $t$ on one qudit and $N$ qubits, and propose a design Hamiltonian, a random Hamiltonian of which dynamics always forms a unitary design after a threshold time, as a basic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-25 Yoshifumi Nakata , Christoph Hirche , Masato Koashi , Andreas Winter

We study the quantum complexity of time evolution in large-$N$ chaotic systems, with the SYK model as our main example. This complexity is expected to increase linearly for exponential time prior to saturating at its maximum value, and is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-05 Vijay Balasubramanian , Matthew DeCross , Arjun Kar , Onkar Parrikar

While many statistical properties of deep random quantum circuits can be deduced, often rigorously and other times heuristically, by an approximation to global Haar-random unitaries, the statistics of constant-depth random quantum circuits…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-08 Gregory Bentsen , Bill Fefferman , Soumik Ghosh , Michael J. Gullans , Yinchen Liu

For chaotic quantum dynamics modeled by random unitary circuits, we study the complexity of reduced density matrices of subsystems as a function of evolution time where the initial global state is a product pure state. The state complexity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 Jeongwan Haah , Douglas Stanford

Circular Dyson Brownian motion describes the Brownian dynamics of particles on a circle (periodic boundary conditions), interacting through a logarithmic, long-range two-body potential. Within the log-gas picture of random matrix theory, it…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-06-11 Wouter Buijsman

Evolutions of local Hamiltonians in short times are expected to remain local and thus limited. In this paper, we validate this intuition by proving some limitations on short-time evolutions of local time-dependent Hamiltonians. We show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-29 Ali Hamed Moosavian , Seyed Sajad Kahani , Salman Beigi
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