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A disordered system is denominated `annealed' when the interactions themselves may evolve and adjust their values to lower the free energy. The opposite (`quenched') situation when disorder is fixed, is the one relevant for physical…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-03-09 Laura Foini , Jorge Kurchan

We prove a trade-off theorem for order and disorder parameters in one-dimensional quantum spin systems with quenched disorder. For a disordered ensemble with exact Ising symmetry and average translation symmetry, any gapped ensemble must…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-05-29 Jinmin Yi , Chong Wang

Anomalies are renormalization group invariants that constrain the dynamics of quantum field theories. We show that certain anomalies for discrete global symmetries imply that the underlying theory either spontaneously breaks its generalized…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Clay Cordova , Kantaro Ohmori

In this paper, we develop a systematic approach to characterize the 't Hooft anomaly in open quantum systems. Owing to nontrivial couplings to the environment, symmetries in such systems manifest as either strong or weak type. By…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-14 Zijian Wang , Linhao Li

We develop a formalism for mapping the exact dynamics of an ensemble of disordered quantum systems onto the dynamics of a single particle propagating along a semi-infinite lattice, with parameters determined by the probability distribution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Hallmann Óskar Gestsson , Charlie Nation , Alexandra Olaya-Castro

The effects of disorder and chaos on quantum many-body systems can be superficially similar, yet their interplay has not been sufficiently explored. This work finds a continuous phase transition when disorder breaks permutation symmetry,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Manju C , Arul Lakshminarayan , Uma Divakaran

We generalize the topological response theory to detect the boundary anomalies of linear subsystem symmetries. This approach allows us to distinguish different subsystem symmetry-protected topological (SSPT) phases and uncover new ones. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-20 Ke Ding , Hao-Ran Zhang , Bai-Ting Liu , Shuo Yang

We consider paradigmatic quenched disordered quantum spin models, viz., the XY spin glass and random-field XY models, and show that quenched averaged quantum correlations can exhibit the order-from-disorder phenomenon for finite-size…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Debasis Sadhukhan , R. Prabhu , Aditi Sen De , Ujjwal Sen

Quantum criticality in the presence of strong quenched randomness remains a challenging topic in modern condensed matter theory. We show that the topology and anomaly associated with average symmetry can be used to predict certain…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-02-04 Yasamin Panahi , Subhayan Sahu , Naren Manjunath , Chong Wang

Quantum entanglement measures of many-body states have been increasingly useful to characterize phases of matter. Here we explore a surprising connection between mixed state entanglement and 't Hooft anomaly. More specifically, we consider…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-13 Leonardo A. Lessa , Meng Cheng , Chong Wang

Quantum circuits consisting of random unitary gates and subject to local measurements have been shown to undergo a phase transition, tuned by the rate of measurement, from a state with volume-law entanglement to an area-law state. From a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-10-26 Yimu Bao , Soonwon Choi , Ehud Altman

We study the universal structure of late-time ensembles obtained from unitary dynamics in quantum chaotic systems with symmetries, such as charge or energy conservation. We find that although quantum states do not ergodically explore the…

The imposition of crystalline symmetries is known to lead to a rich variety of insulating and superconducting topological phases. These include higher-order topological phases and obstructed atomic limits with and without filling anomalies.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-04 Adam Yanis Chaou , Mateo Moreno-Gonzalez , Alexander Altland , Piet W. Brouwer

We derive general evolution equations describing the ensemble-average quantum dynamics generated by disordered Hamiltonians. The disorder average affects the coherence of the evolution and can be accounted for by suitably tailored effective…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-30 Chahan Kropf , Clemens Gneiting , Andreas Buchleitner

Compact expressions for the average subentropy and coherence are obtained for random mixed states that are generated via various probability measures. Surprisingly, our results show that the average subentropy of random mixed states…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-08 Lin Zhang , Uttam Singh , Arun Kumar Pati

Symmetries are a key tool in understanding quantum systems, and, among many other things, can be exploited to increase the efficiency of numerical simulations of quantum dynamics. Disordered systems usually feature reduced symmetries and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 Mirco Erpelding , Adrian Braemer , Martin Gärttner

We show that generic gapped quantum many-body states which respect an anomalous finite higher-form symmetry have an exponentially small overlap with any short-range entangled (SRE) state. Hence, anomalies of higher-form symmetries enforce…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-06 Po-Shen Hsin , Ryohei Kobayashi , Abhinav Prem

In this work, we study the generalization of decohered average symmetry-protected topological phases to open quantum systems with a combination of subsystem symmetries and global symmetries. In particular, we provide examples of two types…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-10-25 Jian-Hao Zhang , Ke Ding , Shuo Yang , Zhen Bi

Hyperuniform states of matter are correlated systems that are characterized by an anomalous suppression of long-wavelength (i.e., large-length-scale) density fluctuations compared to those found in garden-variety disordered systems, such as…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-08-01 Salvatore Torquato

Lieb-Schultz-Mattis (LSM) anomalies are powerful symmetry-based constraints on the correlation, entanglement and dynamics of quantum many-body systems. In this review, we discuss various LSM anomalies and anomaly matching. We start with a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-30 Liujun Zou , Meng Cheng