Don't truncate, decompose: mean-field dynamics of long-range quantum systems from strongly correlated states

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.25434v1
• Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2026 08:29:11 GMT
• Title: Don't truncate, decompose: mean-field dynamics of long-range quantum systems from strongly correlated states
• Abstract summary: We show that the evolution can be decomposed into, and fully reconstructed from, independent mean-field dynamics.<n>This decomposition generates the entire hierarchy of cumulants and, as a byproduct, identifies---to our knowledge, for the first time---a regime in which cumulant expansions exactly predict low-order cumulants.<n>Our results reclaim the exactness of mean-field theory, offering a transparent framework for large-scale open quantum systems.
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• Abstract: We challenge the widespread consensus that mean-field theory fails to describe long-range open quantum systems in the presence of symmetry breaking and/or when starting from strongly correlated states (e.g., macroscopic superpositions). While recent literature relies on cumulant expansions to capture such systems, this approach rests on truncations with no clear justification. Here, we show that it is, at best, conceptually redundant in the strong long-range regime. We show that the evolution can be decomposed into, and fully reconstructed from, independent mean-field dynamics. This decomposition generates the entire hierarchy of cumulants and, as a byproduct, identifies---to our knowledge, for the first time---a regime in which cumulant expansions exactly predict low-order cumulants. We illustrate the power of our findings with two applications: we compute the moment generating function for nonequilibrium $\mathcal{Z}_2$ symmetry breaking, and construct states restoring time-translation symmetry in time crystals. In both cases, our method fully reproduces the exact many-body dynamics, which is out of reach of cumulant expansions. Our results reclaim the exactness of mean-field theory, offering a transparent framework for large-scale open quantum systems.

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