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Enhancing Many-Body Chaos via Entropy Injection from Environment

Yuke Zhang , Wenbo Zhou , Pengfei Zhang This is my paper

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Entropy injection from an environment enhances many-body chaos by enlarging the effective Hilbert space explored by the system.

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The paper establishes that entropy injection from the environment can enhance many-body chaos, in contrast to the usual suppression caused by information leakage. By coupling an equilibrated system to an entropy reservoir, the system is driven out of equilibrium, enlarging the effective Hilbert space it explores. This idea is demonstrated analytically in a complex Brownian SYK model where the relaxation and the steady-state Lyapunov exponent are computed exactly.

Core claim

When a system already in equilibrium with one environment is coupled to another that acts as an entropy reservoir, entropy flows into the system either via heat or particle transfer. This enlarges the effective Hilbert space explored by the system, thereby enhancing many-body chaos as measured by an increase in the steady-state quantum Lyapunov exponent.

What carries the argument

The complex Brownian SYK model with two environments, where one serves as an entropy reservoir allowing analytic computation of relaxation and the quantum Lyapunov exponent.

If this is right

  • The relaxation toward the steady state can be computed exactly in the model.
  • The steady-state quantum Lyapunov exponent increases with the strength of coupling to the entropy reservoir.
  • The enhancement occurs for entropy flow via either heat transfer or particle transfer.
  • This offers a mechanism to tune quantum scrambling through controlled entropy flow in open systems.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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

  • The mechanism may extend to other models of many-body chaos beyond the SYK family.
  • Varying the entropy injection rate could provide an experimental knob for measuring changes in scrambling in cold-atom or superconducting circuit setups.
  • The result suggests environments can be engineered to promote rather than hinder information spreading in quantum many-body dynamics.

Load-bearing premise

The second environment functions purely as an entropy reservoir whose only effect is to drive entropy inflow without introducing additional decoherence or dissipation channels that would counteract the chaos enhancement.

What would settle it

A calculation or measurement in the Brownian SYK model or an analogous system showing that the steady-state quantum Lyapunov exponent does not increase under entropy injection would falsify the enhancement.

Figures

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In closed quantum systems, local information spreads throughout the entire system and becomes highly complex under unitary evolution. In contrast, when the system is embedded in an environment, system-environment coupling can transfer information from the system into the environment, thereby reducing the rate of complexity growth within the system. This leads to the environment-induced scrambling transition established in previous works. In this work, we identify entropy injection from the environment as a different physical process that instead enhances many-body chaos. Our setup consists of coupling a system that is already in equilibrium with one environment to another environment, which serves as an entropy reservoir and drives the system into a non-equilibrium state. When entropy flows into the system through either heat transfer or particle transfer, the effective Hilbert space explored by the system enlarges, a mechanism that can enhance many-body chaos. We explicitly demonstrate this idea by constructing a solvable complex Brownian SYK model, in which both the relaxation toward the steady state and the steady-state quantum Lyapunov exponent can be computed analytically. Our results provide a controllable mechanism for tuning quantum scrambling through entropy flow in quantum many-body systems coupled to environments.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper claims that entropy injection from an additional environment enhances many-body chaos by enlarging the effective Hilbert space explored by the system, in contrast to the usual decoherence-induced suppression of scrambling. This is demonstrated by coupling an already-equilibrated system to a second environment acting as an entropy reservoir, using a solvable complex Brownian SYK model in which both the relaxation toward the steady state and the steady-state quantum Lyapunov exponent can be computed analytically, with the latter increasing due to entropy inflow via heat or particle transfer.

Significance. If the central results hold, the work identifies a controllable mechanism for tuning quantum scrambling through entropy flow in open many-body systems, providing an analytical handle on non-equilibrium chaos that complements existing studies of environment-induced scrambling transitions. The explicit solvability of the model, yielding closed-form expressions for relaxation rates and the Lyapunov exponent, is a technical strength that enables precise, falsifiable predictions.

major comments (2)
  1. [§4] §4 (model construction and entropy-injection term): the assumption that the second environment acts purely as an entropy reservoir (introduced after equilibration with the first environment) without introducing counteracting decoherence or dissipation channels is load-bearing for the claim that chaos is enhanced solely by entropy inflow; the derivation of the effective dynamics and the explicit form of the Lyapunov exponent should confirm that no additional Lindblad terms offset the reported increase.
  2. [Eq. (analytic expression for steady-state Lyapunov exponent)] Eq. (analytic expression for steady-state Lyapunov exponent): the reported increase must be shown to arise directly from the entropy-injection coupling strength rather than from a redefinition of the effective temperature or Hilbert-space dimension that is built into the model parameters by construction.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract could more explicitly quantify the enhancement (e.g., the factor by which the Lyapunov exponent increases) rather than stating only that it 'can be computed analytically.'
  2. [§2] Notation for the complex Brownian SYK Hamiltonian and its coupling terms to the two environments should be introduced with a brief comparison to the standard SYK model to clarify the modifications that enable analytic solvability.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the detailed and constructive report. The comments highlight important points regarding the model assumptions and the origin of the Lyapunov exponent increase. We address each major comment below and will revise the manuscript to incorporate clarifications and additional derivations where needed.

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  1. Referee: §4 (model construction and entropy-injection term): the assumption that the second environment acts purely as an entropy reservoir (introduced after equilibration with the first environment) without introducing counteracting decoherence or dissipation channels is load-bearing for the claim that chaos is enhanced solely by entropy inflow; the derivation of the effective dynamics and the explicit form of the Lyapunov exponent should confirm that no additional Lindblad terms offset the reported increase.

    Authors: In the model construction of §4, the second environment is coupled through specific random interaction terms in the complex Brownian SYK Hamiltonian that are designed to represent particle or heat exchange only. The resulting effective master equation is derived via the Schwinger-Keldysh contour and saddle-point analysis, yielding Lindblad operators whose form is restricted to the entropy-injection processes; no additional dissipative or decoherence channels appear in the equations of motion. The steady-state Lyapunov exponent is obtained directly from the fluctuation spectrum around this saddle point, which incorporates solely the injection coupling. We will add an explicit paragraph in the revised §4 and appendix deriving the Lindblad form to confirm the absence of offsetting terms. revision: yes

  2. Referee: Eq. (analytic expression for steady-state Lyapunov exponent): the reported increase must be shown to arise directly from the entropy-injection coupling strength rather than from a redefinition of the effective temperature or Hilbert-space dimension that is built into the model parameters by construction.

    Authors: The closed-form expression for the steady-state Lyapunov exponent (obtained from the large-N saddle-point equations) depends explicitly on the entropy-injection coupling strength parameter, which is introduced independently of the temperature fixed by the first environment. The Hilbert-space dimension remains that of the original system; the effective enlargement arises dynamically from the increased entropy rather than from any parameter redefinition. We demonstrate this by holding temperature fixed while varying the injection strength, showing a monotonic increase in the exponent. In the revision we will insert a direct comparison of the expression evaluated at zero versus finite injection strength, together with a brief discussion isolating the contribution of the new coupling. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity; analytic results from explicitly constructed solvable model

full rationale

The paper's central demonstration rests on constructing a complex Brownian SYK model that is defined to be analytically tractable, then deriving relaxation rates and the steady-state quantum Lyapunov exponent directly from the model's equations. No step reduces a claimed prediction to a fitted input by construction, nor does any load-bearing premise rely on a self-citation chain whose validity is internal to the present work. The entropy-injection mechanism is introduced via an explicit coupling after equilibration, and the enhancement of chaos is shown by explicit computation rather than by re-labeling or self-definition. This is the standard case of a self-contained solvable-model argument whose outputs are independent of its inputs once the Hamiltonian and couplings are specified.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

1 free parameters · 1 axioms · 0 invented entities

The central claim rests on the solvability of the complex Brownian SYK model under the chosen couplings and on the interpretation that entropy inflow directly enlarges the explored Hilbert space; no new particles or forces are introduced.

free parameters (1)
  • system-environment coupling strength to entropy reservoir
    The strength of coupling to the second environment is introduced to drive entropy flow and must be chosen to realize the non-equilibrium steady state.
axioms (1)
  • domain assumption The complex Brownian SYK model remains exactly solvable when coupled to an entropy reservoir after the system has reached equilibrium.
    The paper invokes the known solvability properties of the SYK family to obtain closed-form expressions for relaxation and the Lyapunov exponent.

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