Renormalization of Quantum Operations: Parity-Time Transition and Chaotic Flows

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.10459v1
• Date: Mon, 11 May 2026 12:29:24 GMT
• Title: Renormalization of Quantum Operations: Parity-Time Transition and Chaotic Flows
• Abstract summary: We study nonunitary quantum dynamics governed by quantum operations.<n>By performing coarse-graining in real time, we find that the competition between decoherence and coherent dynamics plays a decisive role in the behavior of the RG flow.
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• Abstract: The renormalization group (RG) in statistical physics focuses on ground-state properties of equilibrium systems. However, it is unclear how it should be generalized to nonunitary quantum dynamics caused by dissipation and measurement backaction, in which the notion of conserved energy is absent. Here, we extend the RG to cover nonunitary quantum dynamics governed by quantum operations. By performing coarse-graining in real time, we find that the competition between decoherence and coherent dynamics plays a decisive role in the behavior of the RG flow. In particular, we find that chaotic behavior without fixed points emerges in the RG flow when coherent dynamics is dominant, with the parity-time transition serving as a prototypical example. The measurement-induced parity-time transition belongs to the universality class of the one-dimensional Yang-Lee edge singularity, which serves as a guide for experimentally realizing imaginary fields in lattice spin systems with a quantum system.

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