Fastest local entanglement scrambler, multistage thermalization, and a non-Hermitian phantom

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2101.05579v2
• Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2021 11:03:00 GMT
• Title: Fastest local entanglement scrambler, multistage thermalization, and a non-Hermitian phantom
• Authors: Jas Bensa and Marko Znidaric
• Abstract summary: We study random quantum circuits and their rate of producing bipartite entanglement. The problem is mapped to a Markovian process and proved that there are large spectral equivalence classes. We numerically demonstrate that the phenomenon occurs also in random circuits with non-optimal generic gates.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: We study random quantum circuits and their rate of producing bipartite entanglement, specifically with respect to the choice of 2-qubit gates and the order (protocol) in which these are applied. The problem is mapped to a Markovian process and proved that there are large spectral equivalence classes -- different configurations have the same spectrum. Optimal gates and the protocol that generate entanglement with the fastest theoretically possible rate are identified. Relaxation towards the asymptotic thermal entanglement proceeds via a series of phase transitions in the local relaxation rate, which is a consequence of non-Hermiticity. In particular, non-Hermiticity can cause the rate to be either faster, or, even more interestingly, slower than predicted by the matrix eigenvalue gap. This is caused by an exponential in system size explosion of expansion coefficient sizes resulting in a 'phantom' eigenvalue, and is due to non-orthogonality of non-Hermitian eigenvectors. We numerically demonstrate that the phenomenon occurs also in random circuits with non-optimal generic gates, random U(4) gates, and also without spatial or temporal randomness, suggesting that it could be of wide importance also in other non-Hermitian settings, including correlations.

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