Global and nonlocal magic of quantum many-body scars

Abstract:Nonergodic features of chaotic quantum many-body systems are commonly characterized through local observables, fidelity, and entanglement entropy. Here, using global and nonlocal measures of nonstabilizerness (magic), we study quantum many-body scars near infinite temperature in $(1+1)$-dimensional Abelian $\mathbb{Z}_2$ and U$(1)$ lattice gauge theories, both analytically and numerically. We derive an exact closed-form expression for the nonlocal trace distance magic solely from the Schmidt spectrum, reducing the optimization over local unitaries to a finite maximization over stabilizer-compatible Schmidt ranks. We find that scar eigenstates can exhibit extensive global magic despite their anomalously low entanglement, while retaining anomalously large nonlocal magic compared with ergodic states. We further show that constrained Hilbert spaces can generate irreducible nonlocal magic through stabilizer-incompatible Schmidt ranks, even for a flat entanglement spectrum.

Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas); Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)

arXiv:2610.00129 [quant-ph]

(or arXiv:2610.00129v1 [quant-ph] for this version)

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2610.00129 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration)

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