Scrambling in random unitary circuits: exact results

Bertini, Bruno (author), Piroli, Lorenzo (author)

We study the scrambling of quantum information in local random unitary circuits by focusing on the tripartite information proposed by Hosur et al. We provide exact results for the averaged Rényi-2 tripartite information in two cases: (i) the local gates are Haar random and (ii) the local gates are dual-unitary and randomly sampled from a single-site Haar-invariant measure. We show that the latter case defines a one-parameter family of circuits, and prove that for a “maximally chaotic” subset of this family quantum information is scrambled faster than in the Haar-random case. Our approach is based on a standard mapping onto an averaged folded tensor network, that can be studied by means of appropriate recurrence relations. By means of the same method, we also revisit the computation of out-of-time-ordered correlation functions, rederiving known formulas for Haar-random unitary circuits, and presenting an exact result for maximally chaotic random dual-unitary gates.

• Language: English
• Keywords: nonequilibrium statistical mechanics, quantum chaos
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FMF - Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Author Accepted Manuscript
• Year: 2020
• Number of pages: Str. 064305-1-064305-25
• Numbering: Vol. 102, iss. 6
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-124028
• UDC: 536.93
• ISSN on article: 2469-9950
• DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.102.064305
• COBISS.SI-ID: 43003139
• Publication date in RUL: 21.12.2020

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Physical review
• Publisher: American Physical Society
• ISSN: 2469-9950
• COBISS.SI-ID: 2997348

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: neravnovesna statistična mehanika, kvantni kaos

Projects

• Funder: EC - European Commission
• Funding programme: H2020
• Project number: 694544
• Name: Open Many-body Non-Equilibrium Systems
• Acronym: OMNES

• Funder: ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
• Project number: P1-0402
• Name: Matematična fizika