Entanglement governs early-time growth of randomness in projected ensembles

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.22158v1
• Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2026 01:05:33 GMT
• Title: Entanglement governs early-time growth of randomness in projected ensembles
• Abstract summary: We study the dynamics of projected ensembles generated from initially unentangled states, quantifying their randomness using frame potentials.<n>Our results identify entanglement as the mechanism governing the onset of randomness in projected ensembles and clarify how local randomness emerges from global quantum dynamics.
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• Abstract: Deep thermalization concerns the emergence of universal pure-state statistics in projected ensembles at late times, yet the mechanism governing the initial growth of randomness remains unclear. Here, we study the short-time dynamics of projected ensembles generated from initially unentangled states, quantifying their randomness using frame potentials. For arbitrary Hamiltonians, provided the initial bath state has full support in the measurement basis, we show that the frame potentials to cubic order in time are determined entirely by the subsystem purity, and hence by the bipartite entanglement generated between the unmeasured subsystem and its complement. The entanglement timescale therefore sets the initial timescale for the growth of local randomness, independently of the bath measurement basis. For unitarily invariant Hamiltonian ensembles, we further relate the projected-ensemble frame potential at order $k$ to the $4k$-point spectral form factor, or equivalently to the $2k$th frame potential of the global unitary dynamics, establishing a direct connection between local and global randomness. Our results identify entanglement as the mechanism governing the onset of randomness in projected ensembles and clarify how local randomness emerges from global quantum dynamics.

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