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Efficient computation of cumulant evolution and full counting statistics: application to infinite temperature quantum spin chains

Statistical Mechanics 2025-09-29 v1 Quantum Physics

Abstract

We propose a numerical method to efficiently compute quantum generating functions (QGF) for a wide class of observables in one-dimensional quantum systems at high temperature. We obtain high-accuracy estimates for the cumulants and reconstruct full counting statistics from the QGF. We demonstrate its potential on spin S=1/2S=1/2 anisotropic Heisenberg chain, where we can reach time scales hitherto inaccessible to state-of-the-art classical and quantum simulations. Our results challenge the conjecture of the Kardar--Parisi--Zhang universality for isotropic integrable quantum spin chains.

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@article{arxiv.2409.14442,
  title  = {Efficient computation of cumulant evolution and full counting statistics: application to infinite temperature quantum spin chains},
  author = {Angelo Valli and Cătălin Paşcu Moca and Miklós Antal Werner and Márton Kormos and Žiga Krajnik and Tomaž Prosen and Gergely Zaránd},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.14442},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

7 pages, 3 figures plus Supporting Information

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