Complexity of Quantum Trajectories

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Hauptverfasser: Lumia, Luca, Tirrito, Emanuele, Collura, Mario, Essler, Fabian H. L., Fazio, Rosario
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Veröffentlicht: 2026
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author Lumia, Luca
Tirrito, Emanuele
Collura, Mario
Essler, Fabian H. L.
Fazio, Rosario
author_facet Lumia, Luca
Tirrito, Emanuele
Collura, Mario
Essler, Fabian H. L.
Fazio, Rosario
contents Open quantum systems can be described by unraveling Lindblad master equations into ensembles of quantum trajectories. Here we investigate how the complexity of such trajectories is affected by conservation laws and other dynamical constraints of the underlying Lindblad evolution. We characterize this complexity using a data-driven approach based on the intrinsic dimension, defined as the minimal number of variables required to encode the information contained in a data set. Applying this framework to several systems, including dissipative variants of the quantum top and of the XXZ chain, we find that the intrinsic dimension is sensitive to the structure of their dynamics. The Lindblad evolution in these systems is typically chaotic; in particular, we report new signatures of autonomous chaos in the quantum top. At specific parameter values, however, additional constraints arise: the dynamics becomes integrable, exhibits Hilbert-space fragmentation, or develops a closed BBGKY hierarchy, leading to pronounced minima in the intrinsic dimension. Our approach results in an unsupervised probe of the complexity of dissipative quantum systems that is sensitive to chaos and ergodicity breaking phenomena beyond the initial transient regime.
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Lumia, Luca
Tirrito, Emanuele
Collura, Mario
Essler, Fabian H. L.
Fazio, Rosario
Quantum Physics
Statistical Mechanics
Open quantum systems can be described by unraveling Lindblad master equations into ensembles of quantum trajectories. Here we investigate how the complexity of such trajectories is affected by conservation laws and other dynamical constraints of the underlying Lindblad evolution. We characterize this complexity using a data-driven approach based on the intrinsic dimension, defined as the minimal number of variables required to encode the information contained in a data set. Applying this framework to several systems, including dissipative variants of the quantum top and of the XXZ chain, we find that the intrinsic dimension is sensitive to the structure of their dynamics. The Lindblad evolution in these systems is typically chaotic; in particular, we report new signatures of autonomous chaos in the quantum top. At specific parameter values, however, additional constraints arise: the dynamics becomes integrable, exhibits Hilbert-space fragmentation, or develops a closed BBGKY hierarchy, leading to pronounced minima in the intrinsic dimension. Our approach results in an unsupervised probe of the complexity of dissipative quantum systems that is sensitive to chaos and ergodicity breaking phenomena beyond the initial transient regime.
title Complexity of Quantum Trajectories
topic Quantum Physics
Statistical Mechanics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.00232