Infinite temperature at zero energy

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04410v2
• Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2025 23:22:58 GMT
• Title: Infinite temperature at zero energy
• Authors: Matteo Ippoliti, David M. Long,
• Abstract summary: We construct a family of local Hamiltonians that inherit eigenstate properties of periodically-driven (Floquet) systems.<n>Our construction yields Hamiltonians whose eigenstates have properties characteristic of infinite temperature.<n>We then construct a family of exactly solvable Floquet quantum circuits whose eigenstates are shown to obey the ETH at infinite temperature.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: We construct a family of static, geometrically local Hamiltonians that inherit eigenstate properties of periodically-driven (Floquet) systems. Our construction is a variation of the Feynman-Kitaev clock -- a well-known mapping between quantum circuits and local Hamiltonians -- where the clock register is given periodic boundary conditions. Assuming the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH) holds for the input circuit, our construction yields Hamiltonians whose eigenstates have properties characteristic of infinite temperature, like volume-law entanglement entropy, across the whole spectrum -- including the ground state. We then construct a family of exactly solvable Floquet quantum circuits whose eigenstates are shown to obey the ETH at infinite temperature. Combining the two constructions yields a new family of local Hamiltonians with provably volume-law-entangled ground states, and the first such construction where the volume law holds for all contiguous subsystems.

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