Fractal, logarithmic and volume-law entangled non-thermal steady states via spacetime duality

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2103.06873v3
• Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2022 23:30:15 GMT
• Title: Fractal, logarithmic and volume-law entangled non-thermal steady states via spacetime duality
• Authors: Matteo Ippoliti, Tibor Rakovszky, Vedika Khemani
• Abstract summary: We show how a duality transformation between space and time on one hand, and unitarity and non-unitarity on the other, can be used to realize steady state phases of non-unitary dynamics. In spacetime-duals of chaotic unitary circuits, this mapping allows us to uncover a non-thermal volume-law entangled phase. We also find novel steady state phases with emphfractal entanglement scaling.
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• Abstract: The extension of many-body quantum dynamics to the non-unitary domain has led to a series of exciting developments, including new out-of-equilibrium entanglement phases and phase transitions. We show how a duality transformation between space and time on one hand, and unitarity and non-unitarity on the other, can be used to realize steady state phases of non-unitary dynamics that exhibit a rich variety of behavior in their entanglement scaling with subsystem size -- from logarithmic to extensive to \emph{fractal}. We show how these outcomes in non-unitary circuits (that are "spacetime-dual" to unitary circuits) relate to the growth of entanglement in time in the corresponding unitary circuits, and how they differ, through an exact mapping to a problem of unitary evolution with boundary decoherence, in which information gets "radiated away" from one edge of the system. In spacetime-duals of chaotic unitary circuits, this mapping allows us to uncover a non-thermal volume-law entangled phase with a logarithmic correction to the entropy distinct from other known examples. Most notably, we also find novel steady state phases with \emph{fractal} entanglement scaling, $S(\ell) \sim \ell^{\alpha}$ with tunable $0 < \alpha < 1$ for subsystems of size $\ell$ in one dimension. These fractally entangled states add a qualitatively new entry to the families of many-body quantum states that have been studied as energy eigenstates or dynamical steady states, whose entropy almost always displays either area-law, volume-law or logarithmic scaling. We also present an experimental protocol for preparing these novel steady states with only a very limited amount of postselection via a type of "teleportation" between spacelike and timelike slices of quantum circuits.

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