Probes of Full Eigenstate Thermalization in Ergodicity-Breaking Quantum Circuits

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2504.08517v1
• Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2025 13:28:13 GMT
• Title: Probes of Full Eigenstate Thermalization in Ergodicity-Breaking Quantum Circuits
• Authors: Gabriel O. Alves, Felix Fritzsch, Pieter W. Claeys,
• Abstract summary: The eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH) is the leading interpretation in our current understanding of quantum thermalization.<n>We study standard probes of full ETH in ergodicity-breaking quantum circuits.<n>For the analytical results we consider an interacting integrable dual-unitary model and present the exact eigenstates.
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• Abstract: The eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH) is the leading interpretation in our current understanding of quantum thermalization. Recent results uncovered strong connections between quantum correlations in thermalizing systems and the structure of free probability theory, leading to the notion of full ETH. However, most studies have been performed for ergodic systems and it is still unclear whether or how full ETH manifests in ergodicity-breaking models. We fill this gap by studying standard probes of full ETH in ergodicity-breaking quantum circuits, presenting numerical and analytical results for interacting integrable systems. These probes can display distinct behavior and undergo a different scaling than the ones observed in ergodic systems. For the analytical results we consider an interacting integrable dual-unitary model and present the exact eigenstates, allowing us to analytically express common probes for full ETH. We discuss the underlying mechanisms responsible for these differences and show how the presence of solitons dictates the behavior of ETH-related quantities in the dual-unitary model. We show numerical evidence that this behavior is sufficiently generic away from dual-unitarity when restricted to the appropriate symmetry sectors.

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