Probing critical phases in quasiperiodic systems via subsystem information capacity

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.06075v1
• Date: Thu, 07 May 2026 11:59:31 GMT
• Title: Probing critical phases in quasiperiodic systems via subsystem information capacity
• Abstract summary: We investigate the entanglement dynamics of quasiperiodic systems across their extended, critical, and localized phases.<n>We show that the critical phase exhibits a pronounced spatial heterogeneity that is absent in the extended and localized phases.<n>Our results establish the SIC as a powerful real-space probe for diagnosing critical phases and for uncovering the bottlenecked connectivity that underlies their multifractal structure.
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• Abstract: We systematically investigate the entanglement dynamics of quasiperiodic systems across their extended, critical, and localized phases, aiming to identify dynamical signatures that can clearly distinguish the critical phase from the other two. Focusing on the extended Harper model, we complement the half-chain entanglement entropy with the spatially resolved subsystem information capacity (SIC) and demonstrate that the critical phase exhibits a pronounced spatial heterogeneity that is absent in the extended and localized phases. In the steady state, the SIC reveals a stepwise ramp as a function of subsystem size, reflecting an underlying fragmentation of the chain into weakly connected subregions. Dynamically, information initially localized within such a subregion can undergo coherent long-lived oscillations, dubbed subregion echoes, whose period scales with the subregion length, in quantitative agreement with a quasiparticle picture of confined quasiparticle reflections. We trace this internal fragmentation to the incommensurately distributed zeros (IDZs) in the off-diagonal hopping terms of the Hamiltonian. To establish the generality of the SIC as a diagnostic tool, we further apply it to a mobility-edge phase with coexisting extended and localized states and to a critical phase that does not originate from IDZ fragmentation, and show that the SIC can cleanly distinguish these scenarios through their distinct steady-state profiles, initial-site sensitivities and the presence of subregion echoes. Our results establish the SIC as a powerful real-space probe for diagnosing critical phases and for uncovering the bottlenecked connectivity that underlies their multifractal structure.

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