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Integrals of motion as slow modes in dissipative many-body operator dynamics

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Pith's one-line read Weak dissipation turns a Hamiltonian's conserved operators into its slowest-decaying modes, so diagonalizing the Lindbladian recovers exact and approximate integrals of motion.

desk verdict A clean numerical demonstration that low-lying Lindbladian eigenoperators overlap with integrals of motion, with an honest perturbative framework whose converse direction rests on unproven assumptions; worth refereeing seriously. read the letter →

arxiv 2506.02970 v3 pith:YVL5GO6R submitted 2025-06-03 quant-ph cond-mat.quant-gascond-mat.str-el

Tian-Hua Yang , Dmitry A. Abanin This is my paper
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keywords Lindbladequationintegralsofmotionslowmodesoperatorgrowthdissipativequantumdynamicsexactdiagonalizationspinchainsapproximateconservationlaws
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This paper claims that in a many-body quantum system subjected to weak local noise, every integral of motion (IOM) with small support—an operator that commutes with the Hamiltonian and acts on few sites—becomes a slow mode of the dissipative dynamics. Because a generic operator grows in size under chaotic unitary evolution while an IOM does not, the IOM's norm decays exponentially slowly while a generic operator decays superexponentially; consequently, the slowest-decaying eigenoperators of the Lindbladian superoperator are almost exactly linear combinations of the Hamiltonian's IOMs. The paper verifies this correspondence by exact diagonalization for the mixed-field, transverse-field, and Heisenberg spin chains, and supports it with a perturbative argument based on a finite spectral gap in the subspace orthogonal to the IOMs. If correct, the result gives a spectral method to identify exact and approximate conservation laws—including prethermal symmetries—from weakly dissipative dynamics, on a classical computer or in a quantum simulator.

What carries the argument

The central object is the spectrum of the Heisenberg-picture Lindbladian together with the decomposition of operators into Pauli strings, whose decay rates under depolarizing noise are proportional to their sizes. The load-bearing mechanism is the split $L^\dagger[Q] = -\gamma_Q Q + \varepsilon_1 J_1$, which separates a candidate conserved operator $Q$ from its orthogonal fast component $J_1$; the spectral gap of the orthogonal subspace is estimated as $\min(\gamma L,\sqrt{v_B\gamma})$, which makes the perturbative eigenoperator $V = Q + V_\perp$ converge with $\lVert V_\perp\rVert \lesssim \varepsilon_1/E_g^<$ small. This is what converts the intuitive growth-versus-no-growth picture into the quantitative claim that low-lying eigenoperators are the IOMs.

What would settle it

Measure the slowest-decaying operators in a weakly depolarized spin chain, for example the transverse-field Ising model at $J=1$, $h=0.5$, by exact diagonalization at $L=10$–$12$ or by randomized measurements on a quantum simulator, and compare the reconstructed slow modes with the Majorana bilinear operators of Eqs. (9)–(11); if the reconstructed operators have little overlap with the known IOMs, or if the first few decay rates do not track the IOM sizes, the correspondence is ruled out.

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Extended reading notes

Core claim

In the Heisenberg-picture Lindbladian with weak local depolarizing noise, the decay rate of an operator is approximately the noise strength times its operator size. Under chaotic unitary dynamics a generic operator spreads ballistically, so its norm decays superexponentially, while a conserved operator keeps its support fixed and decays only as $e^{-\gamma S t}$. The paper's central assertion is therefore that IOMs with $O(1)$ support are slow modes, and that the low-lying eigenoperators of the Lindbladian—those with decay rate $O(1)\times\gamma$—have large overlap with the exact and approximate IOMs of the underlying Hamiltonian. This is demonstrated for the mixed-field Ising model, where the first three eigenoperators are combinations of the identity, the energy, and its square; for the transverse-field Ising model, where the first five are Majorana bilinear IOMs; and for Heisenberg chains, where up to twenty-five eigenoperators are accounted for by known IOMs and additional slow modes reveal approximate conservation laws such as the spin current and $S_x^2+S_y^2$. The paper further argues, by a perturbation theory around each IOM $Q$, that an operator satisfying $L^\dagger[Q] = -\gamma_Q Q + \varepsilon_1 J_1$ becomes an eigenoperator when the non-conserved component $J_1(t)$ decays fast enough, with the relevant gap scaling as $\min(\gamma L,\sqrt{v_B\gamma})$ rather than the exponentially small many-body level spacing.

Load-bearing premise

The argument assumes that the non-conserved part of each IOM grows and decays quickly enough that the perpendicular component $V_\perp$ stays small; this requires that the subspace orthogonal to the known IOMs contains no other slow or hydrodynamic modes, a condition the authors concede may fail.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • Diagonalizing a weakly dissipative Lindbladian yields exact IOMs: for the transverse-field Ising model the first five eigenoperators are the Majorana bilinear conserved operators, and for Heisenberg chains the low-lying eigenoperators are spanned by total spin, energy, and the higher conserved operator $K$.
  • Approximate conservation laws appear as slow modes alongside exact ones: the dressed particle number in the mixed-field Ising model at $h_x=h_z=0.4$, the spin current at anisotropy $\Delta=0.1$, and $S_x^2+S_y^2$ at $\Delta=1.5$ all show up among the slowest eigenoperators.
  • The first few eigenoperators define a measure of chaoticity: a model is fully chaotic only if its slow modes are linear combinations of powers of the Hamiltonian; mapping this over the mixed-field Ising model parameters shows that large regions with a weak transverse field are not fully chaotic despite lacking exact local IOMs.
  • Because the decay rate of an approximate IOM contains a noise-independent commutator contribution alongside a term linear in $\gamma$, tuning the noise strength scans which approximate symmetries are visible: stronger noise favors small approximate IOMs, while weaker noise tends to hide them behind exact ones.
  • The same physical picture extends to non-depolarizing local noise up to caveats: for dephasing-decay noise on Heisenberg chains, additional slow modes such as projectors onto polarized states appear, so the correspondence between low-lying eigenoperators and IOMs holds with qualification.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Inference: the correspondence suggests a search strategy the paper does not itself implement—vary the noise strength across the crossover where the commutator-induced decay balances the noise-induced decay and track which operators enter the slow subspace, thereby estimating the commutator norms of hidden approximate IOMs.
  • Inference: if the gap argument extends to higher-dimensional lattices, weak local dissipation could turn any quantum simulator into a spectrometer for conserved densities, including multipole or subsystem conservation laws whose operators have small support.
  • Inference: the decomposition into a conserved parallel part and a fast orthogonal part can serve as a variational ansatz: given a candidate IOM, minimize the norm of $L^\dagger[Q]+\gamma_Q Q$ to find the best approximate conservation law; the paper defines exactly this residual but does not run such an optimization.
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Referee Report

3 major / 5 minor

Summary. The paper considers the Heisenberg-picture Lindbladian dynamics of a many-body spin chain under weak local depolarizing noise. Its main claim is that integrals of motion (IOMs) with small operator size decay more slowly than generic operators, so that the low-lying eigenoperators of the Lindbladian superoperator L-dagger have large overlap with the small-sized IOMs of the underlying Hamiltonian. The authors support this with exact diagonalization of several models (MFIM, TFIM, Heisenberg chains) and with a perturbative Mori-based argument. They also use the low-lying eigenoperators to detect approximate IOMs in the mixed-field Ising model and in Heisenberg chains, and propose a 'chaoticity measure' based on the overlap of the first few slow modes with powers of the Hamiltonian.

Significance. The numerical core is clean, and the exact statement that depolarizing noise makes an operator decay at rate gamma times its Pauli size (Eq. (5)) is a useful starting point. If the correspondence is correct, the paper offers a practical spectral tool for identifying exact and approximate local conservation laws, of interest for prethermalization and for quantum-simulation experiments. The strength of the claim, however, rests on two unproven assumptions: fast decay of the perpendicular component J1(t) in Section IV and the 'reasonable distribution' variance bound in Appendix A. Until these are either justified or stated as standing assumptions, the theoretical framing is conditional rather than established.

major comments (3)
  1. [Section IV, Eqs. (16)-(22)] The estimate ||V_perp|| <~ |epsilon_1| integral e^{gamma_V t} ||J_1(t)|| dt in Eq. (20) is the load-bearing step of the perturbative justification, and it depends critically on the assumed stretched-exponential or ballistic decay in Eq. (21). The authors explicitly concede in the first comment of Section IV that after projecting out exact IOMs and hydrodynamic modes H_k, the Mori gap 'might not exist at all.' Since J_1 is defined only by orthogonality to Q, it may still overlap with other IOMs or with hydrodynamic modes, in which case ||J_1(t)|| may decay only algebraically or saturate, making the integral in Eq. (20) diverge and the expansion V = Q + V_perp uncontrolled. The numerical evidence in Fig. 5(a,b) is a single MFIM point at L=9 and cannot rule out slow modes living in the perpendicular subspace. This does not invalidate the numerical spectra, but it means the perturbative argument does not yet establish the eigenoperator-IOM correspondence in general.
  2. [Appendix A, Eq. (A7)] The converse direction, that a slow eigenvalue implies an approximate IOM, uses Eq. (A7), ||[H,V]||^2 = gamma^2 ( <S^2>_V - <S>_V^2 ). The paper claims that for 'reasonable distributions' the variance is O(1) times <S>_V^2, but this is an assumption and is not derived from the Lindblad equation. A slow eigenoperator with a narrow distribution of Pauli sizes, for example one dominated by a single size, could have small variance while still having a large commutator with H. In addition, the derivation assumes V is Hermitian, which is justified only for real eigenvalues; the low-lying spectrum is not shown to be real, and complex-conjugate pairs would require a separate argument. Thus the claimed converse, stated in Section III as 'under mild conditions, ||[H,Q]|| = O(1) x gamma', is weaker than stated.
  3. [Section III.C-D] The identification of approximate IOMs in the Heisenberg and mixed-field Ising examples is partly circular: the operators are discovered by reading them off the low-lying eigenoperators and then the same eigenoperators are cited as confirmation that these operators are approximate IOMs. For the newly proposed approximate IOMs, such as S_x^2 + S_y^2 in the XXZ case, the paper should report independent diagnostics, for example the norm of [H,Q] normalized by ||Q|| or the decay of Q(t) under unitary dynamics, rather than only the overlap with the eigenoperator used to find them.
minor comments (5)
  1. [Section III] The phrase 'under mild conditions [51]' is too vague; the reader should be pointed to the precise assumptions in Appendix A, namely real eigenvalue and the Pauli-size variance bound.
  2. [Fig. 2(c) and Fig. 3] The color-scale limits for the overlap matrices are not stated; adding explicit color bars or numeric values would make the near-unity and near-zero overlaps easier to assess.
  3. [Section IV] The quantities E_g^< and E_g^> are used before being defined; they should be introduced as the inverse decay timescales of ||J_1(t)|| and (J_2|J_1(t)), respectively.
  4. [Eq. (23)] Calling the expression in Eq. (23) the decay rate is potentially misleading, since it is only the leading correction to gamma_Q; the full decay rate also contains the first-order term gamma_Q.
  5. [Introduction] The term 'Loschmidt echo' is used informally for the Frobenius norm decay; please align the terminology with Eq. (5), which defines the norm decay rate rather than a Loschmidt echo amplitude.

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No circularity: the eigenoperator-IOM correspondence is checked against independent known charges; the Mori-gap assumption is an explicit assumption, not a fitted output.

full rationale

The derivation chain is not circular. The central correspondence between low-lying Lindbladian eigenoperators and IOMs is benchmarked against independently known IOMs: the TFIM Majorana bilinears Am and Bm derived in Appendix E from the free-fermion representation, the Heisenberg charges listed in Section IIIC and Appendix G, and the dressed particle-number operator imported from Ref. [69] for the MFIM. These benchmarks are external to the Lindbladian diagonalization, so the numerical 'prediction' is not fitted. The perturbative theory in Section IV is explicitly conditional: Eq. (20) bounds V_perp by the integral of e^{gamma_V t} ||J1(t)||, and the paper states the assumption that J1(t) grows ballistically and decays as in Eq. (21); it does not disguise this as a consequence of the Lindblad equation. On the contrary, the paper flags the failure mode: the Mori gap 'might not exist at all' once hydrodynamic modes are projected out (Sec. IV, third comment), and Appendix A's converse bound depends on a 'reasonable distribution' assumption. These are internal-consistency and assumption gaps, not input-output equivalences. The only self-citation (Ref. [71], by author D. Abanin) appears in Appendix G as an illustrative comparison to prethermal conserved quantities and is not load-bearing. No fitted parameter is renamed as a prediction, and no uniqueness claim is imported from the authors' prior work.

Assumptions & free parameters 0 free parameters · 4 assumptions · 0 invented entities

No fitted numerical parameters appear in the derivation. The main burden is carried by the operator-growth and Mori-gap assumption and by the size-variance and real-eigenvalue assumptions, all of which are unproven. The approximate-IOM identifications in Sections IIIC-D are read off the eigenoperators themselves.

assumptions (4)
  • domain assumption The noise is accurately described by a Markovian Lindblad master equation with local jump operators (Eq. (1)).
    Justified by uncorrelated local noise and the Markov approximation in Section I with Refs. [14,33]; all spectral results assume this form.
  • ad hoc to paper In the perpendicular subspace, J1(t) undergoes chaotic operator growth and decays fast enough that Eq. (20) converges with a Mori gap E_g^< ~ min(gamma L, sqrt(v_B gamma)).
    Used in Section IV, Eqs. (21)-(22) and Fig. 5; not proven and load-bearing for the perturbative correspondence.
  • ad hoc to paper For low-lying eigenoperators with real eigenvalues, the Pauli-size distribution has variance O(<S>^2), so Eq. (A7) implies ||[H,V]|| = O(gamma).
    Appendix A, sentence 'For reasonable distributions...'; needed for the converse claim that slow modes are approximate IOMs.
  • ad hoc to paper The low-lying eigenvalues of L-dagger that are compared with IOMs are real, so the eigenoperators are Hermitian and Eq. (A4) applies.
    Appendix A restricts to real lambda and Hermitian V; the main text does not establish that the slow modes in Figs. 2-4 have zero imaginary part.

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We consider Lindbladian operator dynamics in many-body quantum systems with one or more integrals of motion (IOM), subject to weak local dissipation. We demonstrate that IOMs with small support become slow modes of these dynamics, in the sense that their Frobenius norm decays more slowly compared to generic operators. As a result, the eigenoperators of such Lindbladians with slowest decay rates have a large overlap with the IOMs of the underlying Hamiltonian. We demonstrate this correspondence between slow modes and IOMs numerically for a number of many-body models, and further corroborate it with perturbative arguments. These results open up a new method for the identification of IOMs, and provide insights into the dissipative many-body dynamics.

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Figure 1. FIG. 1. (a) A schematic illustration of the decay of a local operator under noise. A bit flip noise results in an exponential [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. FIG. 2. (a) The Lindbladian spectrum of the MFIM with depolarizing noise, with parameters [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. FIG. 3. Analysis of the low-lying eigenoperators for Heisenberg XXX and XXZ spin chains of length [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: FIG. 4. Illustration of finding approximate IOMs in the MFIM. (a) The first three Lindbladian eigenoperators overlaps with [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_4.png]
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Figure 5. Figure 5: FIG. 5. Illustration of how an approximate IOM converges to an eigenoperator. Numerical simulation is performed for a [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_5.png]
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Figure 6. Figure 6: FIG. 6. Lindbladian spectra of MFIM systems with stronger noise. (a) A MFIM with [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_6.png]
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Figure 7. Figure 7: FIG. 7. Lindbladian spectra for MFIM and TFIM systems with dephasing-decay noise, all of strength [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_7.png]
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Figure 8. Figure 8: FIG. 8. Lindbladian spectra for the TFIM with [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_8.png]
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Figure 9. Figure 9: FIG. 9. Lindbladian spectra for TFIMs with [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_9.png]
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Figure 10. Figure 10: FIG. 10. Additional results on Heisenberg spin chains. Numerics done on [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_10.png]

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