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The Lyapunov spectra of quantum thermalisation

Hallam, A; Morley, JG; Green, AG; (2019) The Lyapunov spectra of quantum thermalisation. Nature Communications , 10 , Article 2708. 10.1038/s41467-019-10336-4. Green open access

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Abstract

Thermalisation in closed quantum systems occurs through a process of dephasing due to parts of the system outside of the window of observation, gradually revealing the underlying thermal nature of eigenstates. In contrast, closed classical systems thermalize due to dynamical chaos. We demonstrate a deep link between these processes. Projecting quantum dynamics onto variational states using the time-dependent variational principle, results in classical chaotic Hamiltonian dynamics. We study an infinite spin chain in two ways—using the matrix product state ansatz for the wavefunction and for the thermofield purification of the density matrix—and extract the full Lyapunov spectrum of the resulting dynamics. We show that the entanglement growth rate is related to the Kolmogorov–Sinai entropy of dynamics projected onto states with appropriate entanglement, extending previous results about initial entanglement growth to all times. The Lyapunov spectra for thermofield descriptions of thermalizing systems show a remarkable semi-circular distribution.

Type: Article
Title: The Lyapunov spectra of quantum thermalisation
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-10336-4
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10336-4
Language: English
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UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > London Centre for Nanotechnology
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10082001
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