scholarly journals Dynamical manifestations of quantum chaos: correlation hole and bulge

2017 ◽  
Vol 375 (2108) ◽  
pp. 20160434 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. J. Torres-Herrera ◽  
Lea F. Santos
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Chaos ◽  
Entanglement Entropy ◽  
Quantum Systems ◽  
Direct Access ◽  
Many Body ◽  
Initial State ◽  
Von Neumann ◽  
Interacting Systems ◽  
Correlation Hole ◽  
The Many

A main feature of a chaotic quantum system is a rigid spectrum where the levels do not cross. We discuss how the presence of level repulsion in lattice many-body quantum systems can be detected from the analysis of their time evolution instead of their energy spectra. This approach is advantageous to experiments that deal with dynamics, but have limited or no direct access to spectroscopy. Dynamical manifestations of avoided crossings occur at long times. They correspond to a drop, referred to as correlation hole, below the asymptotic value of the survival probability and to a bulge above the saturation point of the von Neumann entanglement entropy and the Shannon information entropy. By contrast, the evolution of these quantities at shorter times reflects the level of delocalization of the initial state, but not necessarily a rigid spectrum. The correlation hole is a general indicator of the integrable–chaos transition in disordered and clean models and as such can be used to detect the transition to the many-body localized phase in disordered interacting systems. This article is part of the themed issue ‘Breakdown of ergodicity in quantum systems: from solids to synthetic matter’.

scholarly journals Predicting Imperfect Echo Dynamics in Many-Body Quantum Systems

2020 ◽  
Vol 75 (5) ◽  
pp. 403-411 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lennart Dabelow ◽  
Peter Reimann
Keyword(s):  
Nonequilibrium State ◽  
Quantum Systems ◽  
Many Body ◽  
Echo Signal ◽  
Initial State ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Nonequilibrium States ◽  
The Many ◽  
Backward Propagation ◽  
Analytic Prediction

AbstractEcho protocols provide a means to investigate the arrow of time in macroscopic processes. Starting from a nonequilibrium state, the many-body quantum system under study is evolved for a certain period of time τ. Thereafter, an (effective) time reversal is performed that would – if implemented perfectly – take the system back to the initial state after another time period τ. Typical examples are nuclear magnetic resonance imaging and polarisation echo experiments. The presence of small, uncontrolled inaccuracies during the backward propagation results in deviations of the “echo signal” from the original evolution and can be exploited to quantify the instability of nonequilibrium states and the irreversibility of the dynamics. We derive an analytic prediction for the typical dependence of this echo signal for macroscopic observables on the magnitude of the inaccuracies and on the duration τ of the process, and verify it in numerical examples.

scholarly journals Many-Body Localization and the Emergence of Quantum Darwinism

Entropy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (11) ◽  
pp. 1377
Author(s):  
Nicolás Mirkin ◽  
Diego A. Wisniacki
Keyword(s):  
Quantum System ◽  
Entanglement Entropy ◽  
Redundant Information ◽  
Many Body ◽  
Initial State ◽  
Mobility Edge ◽  
Critical Degree ◽  
Quantum Darwinism ◽  
Effect Of Disorder ◽  
The Many

Quantum Darwinism (QD) is the process responsible for the proliferation of redundant information in the environment of a quantum system that is being decohered. This enables independent observers to access separate environmental fragments and reach consensus about the system’s state. In this work, we study the effect of disorder in the emergence of QD and find that a highly disordered environment is greatly beneficial for it. By introducing the notion of lack of redundancy to quantify objectivity, we show that it behaves analogously to the entanglement entropy (EE) of the environmental eigenstate taken as an initial state. This allows us to estimate the many-body mobility edge by means of our Darwinistic measure, implicating the existence of a critical degree of disorder beyond which the degree of objectivity rises the larger the environment is. The latter hints the key role that disorder may play when the environment is of a thermodynamic size. At last, we show that a highly disordered evolution may reduce the spoiling of redundancy in the presence of intra-environment interactions.

scholarly journals Linear growth of the entanglement entropy for quadratic Hamiltonians and arbitrary initial states

2022 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Giacomo De Palma ◽  
Lucas Hackl
Keyword(s):  
Entanglement Entropy ◽  
Quantum Systems ◽  
Von Neumann Entropy ◽  
Classical Dynamics ◽  
Initial State ◽  
Von Neumann ◽  
Strong Subadditivity ◽  
Periodically Driven ◽  
Initial States ◽  
The Right

We prove that the entanglement entropy of any pure initial state of a bipartite bosonic quantum system grows linearly in time with respect to the dynamics induced by any unstable quadratic Hamiltonian. The growth rate does not depend on the initial state and is equal to the sum of certain Lyapunov exponents of the corresponding classical dynamics. This paper generalizes the findings of [Bianchi et al., JHEP 2018, 25 (2018)], which proves the same result in the special case of Gaussian initial states. Our proof is based on a recent generalization of the strong subadditivity of the von Neumann entropy for bosonic quantum systems [De Palma et al., arXiv:2105.05627]. This technique allows us to extend our result to generic mixed initial states, with the squashed entanglement providing the right generalization of the entanglement entropy. We discuss several applications of our results to physical systems with (weakly) interacting Hamiltonians and periodically driven quantum systems, including certain quantum field theory models.

scholarly journals Using Matrix-Product States for Open Quantum Many-Body Systems: Efficient Algorithms for Markovian and Non-Markovian Time-Evolution

Entropy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (9) ◽  
pp. 984
Author(s):  
Regina Finsterhölzl ◽  
Manuel Katzer ◽  
Andreas Knorr ◽  
Alexander Carmele
Keyword(s):  
Time Evolution ◽  
Nearest Neighbor ◽  
Matrix Product ◽  
Body System ◽  
Many Body ◽  
Initial State ◽  
Matrix Product States ◽  
Open Quantum ◽  
Many Body Systems ◽  
The Many

This paper presents an efficient algorithm for the time evolution of open quantum many-body systems using matrix-product states (MPS) proposing a convenient structure of the MPS-architecture, which exploits the initial state of system and reservoir. By doing so, numerically expensive re-ordering protocols are circumvented. It is applicable to systems with a Markovian type of interaction, where only the present state of the reservoir needs to be taken into account. Its adaption to a non-Markovian type of interaction between the many-body system and the reservoir is demonstrated, where the information backflow from the reservoir needs to be included in the computation. Also, the derivation of the basis in the quantum stochastic Schrödinger picture is shown. As a paradigmatic model, the Heisenberg spin chain with nearest-neighbor interaction is used. It is demonstrated that the algorithm allows for the access of large systems sizes. As an example for a non-Markovian type of interaction, the generation of highly unusual steady states in the many-body system with coherent feedback control is demonstrated for a chain length of N=30.

scholarly journals Probing the edge between integrability and quantum chaos in interacting few-atom systems

Quantum ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 486
Author(s):  
Thomás Fogarty ◽  
Miguel Ángel García-March ◽  
Lea F. Santos ◽  
Nathan L. Harshman
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Chaos ◽  
Cold Atoms ◽  
Quantum Systems ◽  
Particle Interactions ◽  
Body System ◽  
Many Body ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
The Core ◽  
Emergence Of Chaos ◽  
Number Of Particles

Interacting quantum systems in the chaotic domain are at the core of various ongoing studies of many-body physics, ranging from the scrambling of quantum information to the onset of thermalization. We propose a minimum model for chaos that can be experimentally realized with cold atoms trapped in one-dimensional multi-well potentials. We explore the emergence of chaos as the number of particles is increased, starting with as few as two, and as the number of wells is increased, ranging from a double well to a multi-well Kronig-Penney-like system. In this way, we illuminate the narrow boundary between integrability and chaos in a highly tunable few-body system. We show that the competition between the particle interactions and the periodic structure of the confining potential reveals subtle indications of quantum chaos for 3 particles, while for 4 particles stronger signatures are seen. The analysis is performed for bosonic particles and could also be extended to distinguishable fermions.

scholarly journals Impact of the transverse direction on the many-body tunneling dynamics in a two-dimensional bosonic Josephson junction

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anal Bhowmik ◽  
Sudip Kumar Haldar ◽  
Ofir E. Alon
Keyword(s):  
Josephson Junction ◽  
Quantum Dynamics ◽  
Transverse Direction ◽  
General Rule ◽  
Time Dependent ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Many Body ◽  
Initial State ◽  
The Many ◽  
Tunneling Dynamics

AbstractTunneling in a many-body system appears as one of the novel implications of quantum physics, in which particles move in space under an otherwise classically-forbidden potential barrier. Here, we theoretically describe the quantum dynamics of the tunneling phenomenon of a few intricate bosonic clouds in a closed system of a two-dimensional symmetric double-well potential. We examine how the inclusion of the transverse direction, orthogonal to the junction of the double-well, can intervene in the tunneling dynamics of bosonic clouds. We use a well-known many-body numerical method, called the multiconfigurational time-dependent Hartree for bosons (MCTDHB) method. MCTDHB allows one to obtain accurately the time-dependent many-particle wavefunction of the bosons which in principle entails all the information of interest about the system under investigation. We analyze the tunneling dynamics by preparing the initial state of the bosonic clouds in the left well of the double-well either as the ground, longitudinally or transversely excited, or a vortex state. We unravel the detailed mechanism of the tunneling process by analyzing the evolution in time of the survival probability, depletion and fragmentation, and the many-particle position, momentum, and angular-momentum expectation values and their variances. As a general rule, all objects lose coherence while tunneling through the barrier and the states which include transverse excitations do so faster. In particular for the later states, we show that even when the transverse direction is seemingly frozen, prominent many-body dynamics in a two-dimensional bosonic Josephson junction occurs. Implications are briefly discussed.

TEMPORAL QUANTUM CHAOS

1999 ◽  
Vol 13 (18) ◽  
pp. 2361-2369 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. AURICH ◽  
F. STEINER
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Chaos ◽  
Chaotic Systems ◽  
Quantum Systems ◽  
Time Behavior ◽  
Classical Dynamics ◽  
Long Time Behavior ◽  
Initial State ◽  
Numerical Tests ◽  
Weyl Sum ◽  
Long Time

We study the long-time behavior of bound quantum systems whose classical dynamics is chaotic and put forward two conjectures. Conjecture A states that the autocorrelation function C(t)=<Ψ(0)|Ψ(t)> of a delocalized initial state |Ψ(0)> shows characteristic fluctuations, which we identify with a universal signature of temporal quantum chaos. For example, for the (appropriately normalized) value distribution of S~|C(t)| we predict the distribution P(S)=(π/2)Se-πS2/4. Conjecture B gives the best possible upper bound for a generalized Weyl sum and is related to the extremely large recurrence times in temporal quantum chaos. Numerical tests carried out for numerous chaotic systems confirm nicely the two conjectures and thus provide strong evidence for temporal quantum chaos.

scholarly journals Probing Rényi entanglement entropy via randomized measurements

Science ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 364 (6437) ◽  
pp. 260-263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tiff Brydges ◽  
Andreas Elben ◽  
Petar Jurcevic ◽  
Benoît Vermersch ◽  
Christine Maier ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quantum System ◽  
Entanglement Entropy ◽  
Quantum Systems ◽  
Quantum States ◽  
Many Body ◽  
Trapped Ion ◽  
Statistical Correlations ◽  
Quantum Simulator ◽  
Entanglement Structure ◽  
Arbitrary Quantum

Entanglement is a key feature of many-body quantum systems. Measuring the entropy of different partitions of a quantum system provides a way to probe its entanglement structure. Here, we present and experimentally demonstrate a protocol for measuring the second-order Rényi entropy based on statistical correlations between randomized measurements. Our experiments, carried out with a trapped-ion quantum simulator with partition sizes of up to 10 qubits, prove the overall coherent character of the system dynamics and reveal the growth of entanglement between its parts, in both the absence and presence of disorder. Our protocol represents a universal tool for probing and characterizing engineered quantum systems in the laboratory, which is applicable to arbitrary quantum states of up to several tens of qubits.

scholarly journals Hubbard-Stratonovich-like Transformations for Few-Body Interactions

2018 ◽  
Vol 175 ◽  
pp. 11012
Author(s):  
Christopher Körber ◽  
Evan Berkowitz ◽  
Thomas Luu
Keyword(s):  
Perturbation Theory ◽  
Great Accuracy ◽  
Quantum Systems ◽  
Collective Phenomena ◽  
Many Body ◽  
Chiral Perturbation ◽  
Body Level ◽  
The Many ◽  
Three Body ◽  
Number Of Particles

Through the development of many-body methodology and algorithms, it has become possible to describe quantum systems composed of a large number of particles with great accuracy. Essential to all these methods is the application of auxiliary fields via the Hubbard-Stratonovich transformation. This transformation effectively reduces two-body interactions to interactions of one particle with the auxiliary field, thereby improving the computational scaling of the respective algorithms. The relevance of collective phenomena and interactions grows with the number of particles. For many theories, e.g. Chiral Perturbation Theory, the inclusion of three-body forces has become essential in order to further increase the accuracy on the many-body level. In this proceeding, the an-alytical framework for establishing a Hubbard-Stratonovich-like transformation, which allows for the systematic and controlled inclusion of contact three-and more-body inter-actions, is presented.

scholarly journals Entropy Production Within a Pulsed Bose–Einstein Condensate

2016 ◽  
Vol 71 (10) ◽  
pp. 875-881 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christoph Heinisch ◽  
Martin Holthaus
Keyword(s):  
Einstein Condensate ◽  
Many Body ◽  
Initial State ◽  
Site Model ◽  
Bose Einstein Condensate ◽  
Body Dynamics ◽  
Adiabatic Motion ◽  
The Many ◽  
Bose Einstein ◽  
Loss Of Coherence

AbstractWe suggest to subject anharmonically trapped Bose–Einstein condensates to sinusoidal forcing with a smooth, slowly changing envelope, and to measure the coherence of the system after such pulses. In a series of measurements with successively increased maximum forcing strength, one then expects an adiabatic return of the condensate to its initial state as long as the pulses remain sufficiently weak. In contrast, once the maximum driving amplitude exceeds a certain critical value there should be a drastic loss of coherence, reflecting significant heating induced by the pulse. This predicted experimental signature is traced to the loss of an effective adiabatic invariant, and to the ensuing breakdown of adiabatic motion of the system’s Floquet state when the many-body dynamics become chaotic. Our scenario is illustrated with the help of a two-site model of a forced bosonic Josephson junction, but should also hold for other, experimentally accessible configurations.

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