Saturation and recurrence of quantum complexity in random local quantum dynamics

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Auteurs principaux: Oszmaniec, Michał, Kotowski, Marcin, Horodecki, Michał, Hunter-Jones, Nicholas
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author Oszmaniec, Michał
Kotowski, Marcin
Horodecki, Michał
Hunter-Jones, Nicholas
author_facet Oszmaniec, Michał
Kotowski, Marcin
Horodecki, Michał
Hunter-Jones, Nicholas
contents Quantum complexity is a measure of the minimal number of elementary operations required to approximately prepare a given state or unitary channel. Recently, this concept has found applications beyond quantum computing -- in studying the dynamics of quantum many-body systems and the long-time properties of AdS black holes. In this context Brown and Susskind \cite{BrownSusskind17} conjectured that the complexity of a chaotic quantum system grows linearly in time up to times exponential in the system size, saturating at a maximal value, and remaining maximally complex until undergoing recurrences at doubly-exponential times. In this work we prove the saturation and recurrence of complexity in two models of chaotic time evolutions based on (i) random local quantum circuits and (ii) stochastic local Hamiltonian evolution. Our results advance an understanding of the long-time behaviour of chaotic quantum systems and could shed light on the physics of black hole interiors. From a technical perspective our results are based on establishing new quantitative connections between the Haar measure and high-degree approximate designs, as well as the fact that random quantum circuits of sufficiently high depth converge to approximate designs.
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spellingShingle Saturation and recurrence of quantum complexity in random local quantum dynamics
Oszmaniec, Michał
Kotowski, Marcin
Horodecki, Michał
Hunter-Jones, Nicholas
Quantum Physics
Strongly Correlated Electrons
High Energy Physics - Theory
Mathematical Physics
Quantum complexity is a measure of the minimal number of elementary operations required to approximately prepare a given state or unitary channel. Recently, this concept has found applications beyond quantum computing -- in studying the dynamics of quantum many-body systems and the long-time properties of AdS black holes. In this context Brown and Susskind \cite{BrownSusskind17} conjectured that the complexity of a chaotic quantum system grows linearly in time up to times exponential in the system size, saturating at a maximal value, and remaining maximally complex until undergoing recurrences at doubly-exponential times. In this work we prove the saturation and recurrence of complexity in two models of chaotic time evolutions based on (i) random local quantum circuits and (ii) stochastic local Hamiltonian evolution. Our results advance an understanding of the long-time behaviour of chaotic quantum systems and could shed light on the physics of black hole interiors. From a technical perspective our results are based on establishing new quantitative connections between the Haar measure and high-degree approximate designs, as well as the fact that random quantum circuits of sufficiently high depth converge to approximate designs.
title Saturation and recurrence of quantum complexity in random local quantum dynamics
topic Quantum Physics
Strongly Correlated Electrons
High Energy Physics - Theory
Mathematical Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.09734