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We consider the quantum XY model and study the effects of interacting perturbations on the time evolution of the von Neumann and R\'enyi entropies of spin blocks after global quenches. We show that the entropies are sensitive to…

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We show that in any relativistic system, entanglement entropy obeys a speed limit set by the entanglement in thermal equilibrium. The bound is derived from inequalities on relative entropy with respect to a thermal reference state. Thus the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-12-10 Thomas Hartman , Nima Afkhami-Jeddi

We study the time evolution of entanglement entropy and entanglement spectrum in a finite-size system which crosses a quantum phase transition at different speeds. We focus on the Ising model with a time-dependent magnetic field, which is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-17 Elena Canovi , Elisa Ercolessi , Piero Naldesi , Luca Taddia , Davide Vodola

We investigate the behavior of the entanglement entropy of space in the primordial phase of the universe before the beginning of cosmic inflation. We argue that in this phase the entanglement entropy of a region of space grows from a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-31 Eugenio Bianchi , Lucas Hackl , Nelson Yokomizo

We investigate the emergence of thermodynamic arrow of time in the context of AdS/CFT correspondence. We show that, on the CFT side, if the two copies of the field theory are not initially correlated the entropy can only increase such that…

General Physics · Physics 2019-04-09 Ovidiu Racorean

It is believed that thermalization drives the reduced density matrix of a subsystem to approach a short-range entangled operator. If the initial state is also short-range entangled, it is possible that the reduced density matrix remains…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-29 Huajia Wang , Tianci Zhou

We present exact, closed-form results for the non-stabilizerness of random pure states subject to a U(1) symmetry constraint. Using stabilizer entropy as our non-stabilizerness monotone, we derive the average and the variance for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 Daniele Iannotti , Angelo Russotto , Barbara Jasser , Jovan Odavić , Alioscia Hamma

We investigate magic and its connection to entanglement in 1+1 dimensional random free fermion circuits, with a focus on hybrid free fermion dynamics that can exhibit an entanglement phase transition. To quantify magic, we use the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-16 Cheng Wang , Zhi-Cheng Yang , Tianci Zhou , Xiao Chen

We construct upper bounds on entanglement entropies of many-body quantum states that have fixed energy expectation values with respect to geometrically local Hamiltonians. Our focus is on entanglement entropies of subsystems that make up…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-16 Samuel J. Garratt , Dmitry A. Abanin

One indication of thermalization time is subsystem entanglement reaching thermal values. Recent studies on local quantum circuits reveal two exponential stages with decay rates $r_1$ and $r_2$ of the purity before and after thermalization.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-12 Cheryne Jonay , Tianci Zhou

We study the melting of a domain wall in free-fermion chains, where the periodic variation of the hopping amplitudes gives rise to a band structure. It is shown that the entanglement grows logarithmically in time, and the prefactor is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-15 Viktor Eisler

In this paper, based on the fundamental principles of Gauge/gravity duality and considering a \textit{global quench}, we probe the physics of thermalization for a special class of strongly coupled non relativistic QFTs by computing the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-06-08 Dibakar Roychowdhury

We investigate the generation of non-stabilizerness, or magic, in a multi-particle quantum walk by analyzing the time evolution of the stabilizer R\'enyi entropy $M_2$. Our study considers both single- and two-particle quantum walks in the…

We calculate the entanglement entropy of strongly correlated low-dimensional fermions in metallic, superfluid and antiferromagnetic insulating phases. The entanglement entropy reflects the degrees of freedom available in each phase for…

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We revisit the out-of-equilibrium physics arising during the unitary evolution of a one-dimensional XXZ spin chain initially prepared in a domain wall state $\vert\psi_0\rangle=\vert\dots \uparrow\uparrow\downarrow\downarrow\dots\rangle$.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-09-27 Stefano Scopa , Dragi Karevski

We numerically study the evolution of a classical real scalar field in ${(1+1)}$ dimensions with initial conditions describing thermal fluctuations around a metastable vacuum. We track false vacuum decay in real time and compare several…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-06 Dalila Pîrvu , Andrey Shkerin , Sergey Sibiryakov

Non-local magic and anti-flatness provide a measure of the quantum complexity in the wavefunction of a physical system. Supported by entanglement, they cannot be removed by local unitary operations, thus providing basis-independent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-28 C. E. P. Robin , M. J. Savage

Understanding how closed quantum systems dynamically approach thermal equilibrium presents a major unresolved problem in statistical physics. Generically, non-integrable quantum systems are expected to thermalize as they comply with the…

We derive a necessary and sufficient condition for the thermalization of a local observable in a closed quantum system which offers an alternative explanation, independent of the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis, for the thermalization…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-04-11 J. Sirker , N. P. Konstantinidis , F. Andraschko , N. Sedlmayr

A profound quest of statistical mechanics is the origin of irreversibility - the arrow of time. New stimulants have been provided, thanks to unprecedented degree of control reached in experiments with isolated quantum systems and rapid…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-28 Chushun Tian , Kun Yang , Jiao Wang