Eigenoperator Entanglement Statistics in Local Lindbladians

Abstract:Random matrix spectral statistics are widely used to diagnose quantum chaos in open systems, but whether chaotic eigenvalue correlations are accompanied by Haar-typical eigenoperators remains unclear. We study the operator-entanglement statistics of Liouvillian eigenoperators with near-maximal entanglement, analogous to states near the middle of the spectrum in Hamiltonian systems. Using the Kullback-Leibler divergence, we show that Haar-random statistics accurately describe both the Ginibre and class-AI$^\dagger$ Gaussian ensembles. For purely dissipative random Lindbladians, we find that locality of the jump operators drastically alters the eigenoperator-entanglement statistics. Nonlocal Lindbladians remain relatively close to Haar-random behavior, whereas local Lindbladians deviate increasingly from random-matrix statistics with system size. Moreover, unlike in Hamiltonian systems, the most highly entangled eigenoperators of local Lindbladians do not generally lie in the region of largest density of states, owing to the clustered structure of the complex eigenspectrum. We introduce an iterative $\sigma$-clipping scheme to extract the high-entanglement distribution without preselecting a spectral window, and find that it is Gaussian for nonlocal Lindbladians but log-normal for local ones. Remarkably, the same log-normal distribution, with no additional fitting, also describes dissipative mixed-field Ising chains belonging to distinct non-Hermitian symmetry classes. Our results therefore point to a universal eigenoperator-entanglement distribution for local Lindbladians that is not captured by generic non-Hermitian random-matrix ensembles.

Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

arXiv:2609.29215 [cond-mat.stat-mech]

(or arXiv:2609.29215v1 [cond-mat.stat-mech] for this version)

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2609.29215 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration)

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