Diffusive Relaxation of Participation Entropy in U(1)-symmetric Dynamics

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.11561v1
• Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2026 01:40:54 GMT
• Title: Diffusive Relaxation of Participation Entropy in U(1)-symmetric Dynamics
• Abstract summary: While PE relaxes rapidly in generic chaotic systems, we show that $mathrmU(1)$ conservation laws slow it down by imprinting with the slow hydrodynamic modes.<n>Our results establish PE as a sensitive probe of hydrodynamic memory and suggest that slow relaxation is a generic consequence of conservation laws.
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• Abstract: Participation entropy (PE) quantifies the spread of a many-body wavefunction across configuration space. While PE relaxes rapidly in generic chaotic systems, we show that $\mathrm{U}(1)$ conservation laws slow it down by imprinting with the slow hydrodynamic modes. Using a cluster expansion around equilibrium, we show that, after local density inhomogeneities decay, the leading PE deficit is dominated by squared connected density correlations. The long time relaxation is therefore controlled by diffusive correlation spreading, giving $ΔS(t)\sim t^{-1/2}$ in the hydrodynamic regime and crossing over to $\sim \exp[-O(t/L^2)]$ when $t\geq L^2$. We confirm this entropy correlation relation using exact computation and infinite system tensor network simulations in various quantum $\mathrm{U}(1)$ conserving circuits. Our results establish PE as a sensitive probe of hydrodynamic memory and suggest that slow relaxation is a generic consequence of conservation laws.

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