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We first propose and study a quantum toy model of black hole dynamics. The model is unitary, displays quantum thermalization, and the Hamiltonian couples every oscillator with every other, a feature intended to emulate the color sector…

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A bipartite system whose subsystems are fully quantum chaotic and coupled by a perturbative interaction with a tunable strength is a paradigmatic model for investigating how isolated quantum systems relax towards an equilibrium. It is found…

Magic, or nonstabilizerness, characterizes the deviation of a quantum state from the set of stabilizer states and plays a fundamental role from quantum state complexity to universal fault-tolerant quantum computing. However, analytical or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-22 Junjie Chen , Yuxuan Yan , You Zhou

We study the non-stabilizerness (quantum magic) content of the Hubbard dimer, an analytically solvable, yet completely non-trivial, model of strongly correlated fermions. We can access zero- and finite-temperature properties as well as the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Edoardo Zavatti , Gabriele Bellomia , Massimo Capone

We study the participation and stabilizer entropy of non-unitary quantum circuit dynamics, focusing on the critical line that separates the low-entanglement spin-glass phase and the paramagnetic phase. Along this critical line, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-16 Eliot Heinrich , Hanchen Liu , Tianci Zhou , Xiao Chen

Within gauge/gravity duality, we consider the local quench-like time evolution obtained by joining two 1+1-dimensional heat baths at different temperatures at time t=0. A steady state forms and expands in space. For the 2+1-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-25 Johanna Erdmenger , Daniel Fernandez , Mario Flory , Eugenio Megias , Ann-Kathrin Straub , Piotr Witkowski

We explore thermalization and quantum dynamics in a one-dimensional disordered SU(2)-symmetric Floquet model, where a many-body localized phase is prohibited by the non-abelian symmetry. Despite the absence of localization, we find an…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-12-15 Zhi-Cheng Yang , Stuart Nicholls , Meng Cheng

In this work, we study the time evolution of the entanglement hamiltonian during the process of thermalization in a (1+1)-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT) after a quantum quench from a special class of initial states. In particular,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-12-05 Xueda Wen , Shinsei Ryu , Andreas W. W. Ludwig

One of the fundamental problems of quantum statistical physics is how an ideally isolated quantum system can ever reach thermal equilibrium behavior despite the unitary time evolution of quantum-mechanical systems. Here, we study, via…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-24 Marvin Lenk , Sayak Biswas , Anna Posazhennikova , Johann Kroha

There exist zero-temperature states in quantum many-body systems that are fully factorized, thereby possessing vanishing entanglement, and hence being of no use as resource in quantum information processing tasks. Such states can become…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-11 Titas Chanda , Tamoghna Das , Debasis Sadhukhan , Amit Kumar Pal , Aditi Sen De , Ujjwal Sen

We numerically study the behaviour of entanglement entropy for a free scalar field on the noncommutative ("fuzzy") sphere after a mass quench. It is known that the entanglement entropy before a quench violates the usual area law due to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-04 Philippe Sabella-Garnier

Entanglement and stabilizer entropy are both involved in the onset of complex behavior in quantum many-body systems. Their interplay is at the root of complexity of simulability, scrambling, thermalization and typicality. In this work, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 Jovan Odavić , Michele Viscardi , Alioscia Hamma

We present rigorous bounds on the thermalization time of the family of quantum mechanical spin systems known as stabilizer Hamiltonians. The thermalizing dynamics are modeled by a Davies master equation that arises from a weak local…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-29 Kristan Temme , Michael J. Kastoryano

We introduce a diagnostic for quantum thermalization based on mixed-state entanglement. Specifically, given a pure state on a tripartite system $ABC$, we study the scaling of entanglement negativity between $A$ and $B$. For representative…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-12-11 Tsung-Cheng Lu , Tarun Grover

We characterize the early stages of the approach to equilibrium in isolated quantum systems through the evolution of the entanglement spectrum. We find that the entanglement spectrum of a subsystem evolves with at least three distinct…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-11-12 Po-Yao Chang , Xiao Chen , Sarang Gopalakrishnan , J. H. Pixley

When a non-integrable system evolves out of equilibrium for a long time, local observables are expected to attain stationary expectation values, independent of the details of the initial state. However, intriguing experimental results with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-05-17 Mari Carmen Bañuls , J. Ignacio Cirac , Matthew B. Hastings

We examine the time evolution of the entanglement spectrum of a small subsystem of a non-integrable spin chain following a quench from a product state. We identify signatures in this entanglement spectrum of the distinct dynamical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-09-11 Tibor Rakovszky , Sarang Gopalakrishnan , S. A. Parameswaran , Frank Pollmann

Recently, there have been significant new insights concerning conditions under which closed systems equilibrate locally. The question if subsystems thermalize---if the equilibrium state is independent of the initial state---is however much…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-10-02 M. Cramer

Identifying the boundary between classical and quantum computation is a central challenge in quantum information. In multi-qubit systems, entanglement and magic are the key resources underlying genuinely quantum behaviour. While…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-02 Lorenzo Leone , Jens Eisert , Salvatore F. E. Oliviero

We investigate an asymptotically spatially flat Robertson-Walker spacetime from two different perspectives. First, using von Neumann entropy, we evaluate the entanglement generation due to the encoded information in spacetime. Then, we work…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-21 Mehrnoosh Farahmand , Hosein Mohammadzadeh , Hossein Mehri-Dehnavi