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This research addresses a fundamental challenge in quantum many-body physics by demonstrating how to recover nonlinear state properties using hydrodynamic constraints and maximum-entropy ensembles. The authors introduce the concept of "global restricted typicality," showing that systems with timescale separation behave as typical pure states within dynamically restricted submanifolds of Hilbert space. This advancement significantly reduces computational costs for characterizing complex quantum dynamics without sacrificing accuracy in predicting entanglement entropy and participation metrics.
Restricted typicality in non-equilibrium quantum many-body systems
arXiv:2609.07832v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Characterizing the time evolution of generic quantum many-body systems is a fundamental challenge, as representing the exact state requires exponentially scaling computational resources. While hydrodynamics and statistical mechanics successfully simplify this task by predicting the expectation values of local observables, these macroscopic frameworks provide no information about nonlinear characteristics of the quantum state. In this work, we demonstrate that for systems exhibiting a timescale separation, with dynamics governed by the transport of conserved charges, this lost information can be systematically recovered. By constraining the maximum-entropy Scrooge ensemble solely by the system's slow modes, we accurately reconstruct complex, nonlinear quantum properties of the global time-evolved state, including the half-chain entanglement entropy and the participation entropy in the computational basis. Our results generalize the paradigm of canonical typicality, revealing that a hydrodynamically bottlenecked system behaves as a typical pure state within a dynamically restricted submanifold of the Hilbert space - a phenomenon we term global restricted typicality.
Abstract:Characterizing the time evolution of generic quantum many-body systems is a fundamental challenge, as representing the exact state requires exponentially scaling computational resources. While hydrodynamics and statistical mechanics successfully simplify this task by predicting the expectation values of local observables, these macroscopic frameworks provide no information about nonlinear characteristics of the quantum state. In this work, we demonstrate that for systems exhibiting a timescale separation, with dynamics governed by the transport of conserved charges, this lost information can be systematically recovered. By constraining the maximum-entropy Scrooge ensemble solely by the system's slow modes, we accurately reconstruct complex, nonlinear quantum properties of the global time-evolved state, including the half-chain entanglement entropy and the participation entropy in the computational basis. Our results generalize the paradigm of canonical typicality, revealing that a hydrodynamically bottlenecked system behaves as a typical pure state within a dynamically restricted submanifold of the Hilbert space - a phenomenon we term global restricted typicality.
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Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn); Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
arXiv:2609.07832 [quant-ph]
(or arXiv:2609.07832v1 [quant-ph] for this version)
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2609.07832 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration)
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