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arxiv: 2409.02187 · v2 · submitted 2024-09-03 · ❄️ cond-mat.stat-mech · quant-ph

Late-time ensembles of quantum states in quantum chaotic systems

Souradeep Ghosh , Christopher M. Langlett , Nicholas Hunter-Jones , Joaquin F. Rodriguez-Nieva This is my paper

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keywords late-time ensemblesquantum chaosHaar-random statesunitary dynamicssymmetry constraintsstatistical momentsproduct statesthermodynamic limit
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In quantum chaotic systems, late-time ensembles from product states become indistinguishable from Haar-random states at finite statistical moments in the thermodynamic limit.

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The paper establishes that unitary dynamics in quantum chaotic systems with symmetries produce late-time state ensembles that match Haar-random statistics for all finite moments, even though the states remain confined away from the full Hilbert space. This applies specifically to typical product initial states in the middle of the spectrum, which are straightforward to prepare experimentally. A sympathetic reader would care because it shows that high levels of effective randomness remain achievable under conservation laws without needing full ergodicity. Atypical low-variance initial states deviate from this and produce distinguishable ensembles.

Core claim

Although quantum states do not ergodically explore the entire Hilbert space at late times, the late-time ensemble typically becomes indistinguishable from Haar-random states in the thermodynamic limit at the level of finite statistical moments. This holds for product states in the middle of the spectrum of quantum chaotic systems. These states exhibit the same ensemble averages, state-to-state fluctuations, and higher statistical moments as Haar-random states, so that no local or nonlocal measurement at finite moments can distinguish them. Atypical initial states with smaller variance of the symmetry operator evolve into non-universal ensembles distinguishable by simple measurements, while a

What carries the argument

late-time ensembles of states evolved under unitary dynamics with symmetries, compared to the Haar measure by matching of finite statistical moments

If this is right

  • Late-time averages of any observable match those computed from Haar-random states.
  • Fluctuations from state to state in the ensemble match the corresponding Haar fluctuations.
  • Higher statistical moments are identical, so no finite-moment measurement distinguishes the ensembles.
  • Atypical low-variance initial states produce non-universal ensembles that differ in simple subsystem properties.
  • States with fixed particle number or energy eigenstates yield universal constrained random-state ensembles.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • This implies that many quantum information protocols relying on randomness could work with simple product-state preparation in symmetric chaotic systems.
  • Experiments in cold atoms or superconducting circuits could test the claim by sampling multiple late-time states and comparing moment statistics.
  • The atypical states provide a way to tune between universal and non-universal late-time behavior by choice of initial variance.
  • The result may extend to understanding how symmetries limit or preserve effective randomness in near-integrable regimes.

Load-bearing premise

The system Hamiltonians are quantum chaotic and the thermodynamic limit is taken so that finite moments fully capture distinguishability from Haar states.

What would settle it

Finding a difference in the variance of a symmetry operator or any higher statistical moment between late-time evolved product states and Haar-random states in a large chaotic system would falsify the indistinguishability claim.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2409.02187 by Christopher M. Langlett, Joaquin F. Rodriguez-Nieva, Nicholas Hunter-Jones, Souradeep Ghosh.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: FIG. 1. The late-time behavior of an initial state [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: FIG. 2. (a) Distribution of half-system entanglement entropy [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: FIG. 3. Projection of the (a) FM [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: FIG. 4. (a) Distribution of EE at late times for the MFIM and [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: FIG. 5. (a) Distribution of EE at late-times for the MFIM [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_5.png] view at source ↗
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We study the universal structure of late-time ensembles obtained from unitary dynamics in quantum chaotic systems with symmetries, such as charge or energy conservation. We find that although quantum states do not ergodically explore the entire Hilbert space at late times, the late-time ensemble typically becomes indistinguishable from Haar-random states in the thermodynamic limit at the level of finite statistical moments. Importantly, our results apply to initial states easy to prepare in ongoing experiments -- specifically, product states -- that lie in the middle of the spectrum of quantum chaotic systems. We show that these states typically exhibit not only the same late-time ensemble average as Haar-random states, but also the same state-to-state fluctuations and higher statistical moments. In other words, there is no measurement -- whether local or nonlocal -- at the level of finite statistical moments that can tell that the states are not exploring the entire Hilbert space. Interestingly, within the class of low-entanglement initial states, we also find atypical initial conditions in the middle of the spectrum of Hamiltonians known to be "maximally chaotic". Such atypical states have smaller variance of the symmetry operator than Haar-random states and evolve into non-universal ensembles that can be distinguished from the Haar ensemble by simple measurements or subsystem properties. In the limiting case of initial states with negligible variance of the symmetry operator (e.g., states with fixed particle number or energy eigenstates), the late-time ensemble has universal behavior captured by constrained random-state ensembles. Our results reveal that an extremely high level of quantum state randomness can still be achieved even when dynamics is constrained by symmetries.

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Summary. The paper studies late-time ensembles generated by unitary evolution in quantum chaotic systems with symmetries (e.g., charge or energy conservation). It claims that, although states do not explore the full Hilbert space, for typical product initial states in the middle of the spectrum the late-time ensemble becomes indistinguishable from the Haar ensemble at the level of any fixed finite statistical moment in the thermodynamic limit. Atypical low-variance initial states (still in the middle of the spectrum) produce distinguishable ensembles, while fixed-symmetry states map to constrained random ensembles. The results are positioned as relevant to experimentally accessible product states.

Significance. If the central claims hold, the work clarifies the conditions under which symmetry-constrained chaotic dynamics can still produce high levels of state randomness at the level of finite moments, with direct relevance to ongoing experiments on product states. The distinction between typical and atypical initial states, and the explicit treatment of both local and nonlocal measurements, strengthens the result relative to purely ergodic or fully Haar-random pictures.

major comments (1)
  1. [Abstract and main results on moment matching] The central indistinguishability claim (abstract and main results) rests on matching of finite-k moments with k independent of system size L. However, the argument does not address whether this matching remains uniform when the effective moment order k must grow with L for nonlocal observables whose support or norm scales with L (e.g., global symmetry fluctuations or multi-point correlators across the full system). This is load-bearing for the claim that “there is no measurement … at the level of finite statistical moments” that can distinguish the ensembles.

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We thank the referee for their careful reading and for identifying a point that merits clarification regarding the scope of our moment-matching results. We respond to the major comment below.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract and main results on moment matching] The central indistinguishability claim (abstract and main results) rests on matching of finite-k moments with k independent of system size L. However, the argument does not address whether this matching remains uniform when the effective moment order k must grow with L for nonlocal observables whose support or norm scales with L (e.g., global symmetry fluctuations or multi-point correlators across the full system). This is load-bearing for the claim that “there is no measurement … at the level of finite statistical moments” that can distinguish the ensembles.

    Authors: We thank the referee for this observation. Our theorems and numerical results establish matching of all moments up to any fixed order k (with k independent of L) between the late-time ensemble of typical product states and the Haar ensemble, in the thermodynamic limit. The central claim is therefore restricted to observables whose statistics are fully determined by a fixed, L-independent number of moments. We agree that the manuscript does not analyze the regime in which the effective moment order required to probe a given observable grows with L (for example, certain global or system-spanning correlators). Such observables lie outside the “finite statistical moments” regime addressed in the paper. Consequently, we do not claim indistinguishability for measurements whose distinguishing power only appears at k = k(L) → ∞. This scope limitation does not affect the validity of the stated results for all fixed-k observables, which include all local measurements and a broad class of nonlocal ones. We are happy to add an explicit clarifying sentence in the discussion section of a revised manuscript. revision: partial

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No circularity; derivation relies on standard RMT and chaos assumptions

full rationale

The paper derives late-time ensemble properties from unitary evolution under chaotic Hamiltonians with symmetries, showing moment matching to Haar ensemble in the thermodynamic limit for typical product states. This follows from standard random-matrix techniques applied to constrained dynamics, with distinctions between typical and atypical states based on symmetry variance. No load-bearing step reduces a prediction to a fitted input or self-citation by construction; the central claims remain independent of the authors' prior work and are not self-definitional. The analysis is self-contained against external benchmarks like Haar moments.

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Based on abstract only. The central claim rests on standard assumptions of quantum chaos and the thermodynamic limit; no free parameters, invented entities, or ad-hoc axioms are visible in the provided text.

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  • domain assumption Unitary dynamics generated by quantum chaotic Hamiltonians with symmetries
    Invoked throughout abstract as the setting for late-time evolution.
  • domain assumption Thermodynamic limit exists and controls indistinguishability at finite moments
    Central to the claim that ensembles become indistinguishable from Haar.

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