Average mutual information for random fermionic Gaussian quantum states
Abstract
Studying the typical entanglement entropy of a bipartite system when averaging over different ensembles of pure quantum states has been instrumental in different areas of physics, ranging from many-body quantum chaos to black hole evaporation. We extend such analysis to open quantum systems and mixed states, where we compute the typical mutual information in a bipartite system averaged over the ensemble of mixed Gaussian states with a fixed spectrum. Tools from random matrix theory and determinantal point processes allow us to compute arbitrary k-point correlation functions of the singular values of the corresponding complex structure in a subsystem for a given spectrum in the full system. In particular, we evaluate the average von Neumann entropy in a subsystem based on the level density and the average mutual information. Those results are given for finite system size as well as in the thermodynamic limit.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2412.20244,
title = {Average mutual information for random fermionic Gaussian quantum states},
author = {Lucas Hackl and Mario Kieburg and Joel Maldonado},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.20244},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
39 pages, 7 figures