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Equivalence of quantum resources under ergodic dynamics
Quantum Physics · Submitted 15 Aug 2026 · 132 references
Pith's verdict: A clean replica derivation for random circuits plus a genuinely useful one-wall reduction; the non-Haar generalization is plausible but not yet nailed down because the common-amplitude assumption is tested only visually.
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Ergodic many-body dynamics collapse distinct second-Rényi quantum resource measures onto a low-dimensional manifold fixed by purity and one witness.
The reading
What carries the argument
The central object is the two-replica statistical mechanics of the random circuit: after Haar averaging, the doubled state lives in the local span of identity $e$ and swap $s$, and domain walls between $e$ and $s$ regions undergo a random walk with absorbing boundaries. The transfer matrix is triangular in the number of walls, so the late-time state is controlled by the uniform zero-wall configurations (fixed by purity) plus the slowest one-wall eigenmode $\phi_1(b)\propto \sin[\pi(b+1)/L]$. The key identity is the sensitivity $N_R = \mathrm{Tr}(B_R Q_p)$, the fixed contraction of a resource's boundary operator with this projected wall profile; because every resource shares the same amplitude $A(t)$, ratios of sensitivities convert any witness into any target.
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Core claim
Working at the two-copy (second-Rényi) level, the paper shows that Haar averaging over local gates projects the replicated state onto identity and swap configurations, so each resource measure is a readout of the same replicated state. Normalization plus the measured purity $P(t)=\mathrm{Tr}(\rho_A^2)$ fix the uniform zero-wall sector, and the leading time dependence is carried by a single slow one-wall mode with a common amplitude $A(t)$. Contracting this mode with the boundary operator of a resource $R$ yields $\delta Z_R = A(t) N_R$, where $N_R$ is a time-independent boundary sensitivity; eliminating $A(t)$ between a target and a witness $R'$ gives $2^{-M_R} \simeq 2^{-M_R^{(0)}}(P) + \rho_{RR'}[2^{-M_{R'}}-2^{-M_{R'}^{(0)}}(P)]$. The authors demonstrate these reconstructions for coherence, charge and dipole asymmetries, and number entropy in Haar circuits, kicked Ising Floquet chains, and a mixed-field Ising Hamiltonian, using the Haar-derived $N_R$ as a parameter-free ansatz. They further prove that the dephasing and transpose boundary operators have identical contractions with every replica configuration, which yields the exact annealed relation $I(\rho_A)=-\log_q[(1+q^{-C_d})/2]$ between imaginarity and coherence.
Load-bearing premise
The result rests on the assumption that the dominant simplification seen in random circuits—a single slowly moving boundary between local identity and swap regions, with sensitivities computed from Haar averages—also governs generic chaotic dynamics without any fitting; the authors test this in two models and already report one reverse reconstruction where it breaks down under Hamiltonian evolution.
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If this is right
- In random circuits, any quadratic resource can be inferred from the purity and one other resource over the entire time evolution, including transients that a purity-only fit misses.
- For qubits, imaginarity and coherence are locked by $I=1-\log_2(1+2^{-C_d})$, with imaginarity saturating at one bit as coherence diverges.
- The parameter-free agreement in kicked Ising and mixed-field Ising dynamics implies the equivalence is a property of ergodic scrambling, not of the Haar ensemble itself.
- Purity-unnormalized diagnostics such as the number entropy follow from purity-normalized witnesses through a factor proportional to $P$, while the reverse reconstruction is stable in circuits and Floquet systems but becomes ill-conditioned under Hamiltonian evolution.
- The relation suggests an experimental shortcut: purity plus one witness obtained by randomized measurements can replace full tomography for several resource measures.
Reading between the lines
- Because the dephasing and transpose boundary contractions agree configuration by configuration, the coherence–imaginarity lock is likely one instance of a broader rule: any two local readouts with identical two-copy boundary dictionaries become dynamically locked under the same averaging.
- The ill-conditioned reverse number-entropy-to-coherence reconstruction under Hamiltonian evolution pinpoints where the one-wall description fails: the $P^{-1}$ conversion factor amplifies hydrodynamic slow modes, so a testable extension is that adding a second witness (or a higher-wall correction) restores accurate reconstruction there.
- At higher replicas, where resources such as stabilizer or fermionic Rényi entropies live, the triangular wall-number structure suggests a hierarchy in which the number of required witnesses equals the number of slow wall modes; this is a natural but unstated consequence of the mechanism.
Original abstract
Quantum resource theories characterize distinct forms of nonclassicality in many-body quantum states, raising the question of whether these resources evolve independently under generic ergodic dynamics. Considering diagnostics quadratic in the state, we show that the dynamics of different resource measures become mutually interdependent and are governed by a few common degrees of freedom. For Haar-random circuits, the purity together with a single resource witness suffices to reconstruct the remaining resource measures, as we demonstrate for coherence, various asymmetries, and number entropies. The same relations hold, to a good approximation, under chaotic Floquet and continuous-time Hamiltonian dynamics, establishing that this dynamical resource equivalence extends beyond random circuits. We further derive an exact coherence--imaginarity relation, remarkably accurate also beyond Haar-random circuits. Our results reveal an emergent simplification of many-body dynamics, in which sufficiently strong scrambling reduces seemingly distinct quantum resources to a few common dynamical degrees of freedom.
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Quantum resource theories characterize distinct forms of nonclassicality in many-body quantum states, raising the question of whether these resources evolve independently under generic ergodic dynamics. Considering diagnostics quadratic in the state, we show that the dynamics of different resource measures become mutually interdependent and are governed by a few common degrees of freedom. For Haar-random circuits, the purity together with a single resource witness suffices to reconstruct the remaining resource measures, as we demonstrate for coherence, various asymmetries, and number entropies. The same relations hold, to a good approximation, under chaotic Floquet and continuous-time Hamiltonian dynamics, establishing that this dynamical resource equivalence extends beyond random circuits. We further derive an exact coherence--imaginarity relation, remarkably accurate also beyond Haar-random circuits. Our results reveal an emergent simplification of many-body dynamics, in which sufficiently strong scrambling reduces seemingly distinct quantum resources to a few common dynamical degrees of freedom.
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| s0 | Quantum resource theories characterize distinct forms of nonclassicality in many-body quantum states, raising the question of whether these resources evolve independently under generic ergodic dynamics. | background 0.91 | 0.06 | 0.04 | asserted 0.56 |
| s1 | Considering diagnostics quadratic in the state, we show that the dynamics of different resource measures become mutually interdependent and are governed by a few common degrees of freedom. | result 0.90 | 0.94 | 0.44 | asserted 1.00 |
| s2 | For Haar-random circuits, the purity together with a single resource witness suffices to reconstruct the remaining resource measures, as we demonstrate for coherence, various asymmetries, and number entropies. | result 0.99 | 0.95 | 0.17 | asserted 1.00 |
| s3 | The same relations hold, to a good approximation, under chaotic Floquet and continuous-time Hamiltonian dynamics, establishing that this dynamical resource equivalence extends beyond random circuits. | result 0.99 | 0.92 | 0.21 | asserted 0.94 |
| s4 | We further derive an exact coherence--imaginarity relation, remarkably accurate also beyond Haar-random circuits. | result 0.97 | 0.96 | 0.10 | asserted 1.00 |
| s5 | Our results reveal an emergent simplification of many-body dynamics, in which sufficiently strong scrambling reduces seemingly distinct quantum resources to a few common dynamical degrees of freedom. | interpretation 1.00 | 0.93 | 0.87 | asserted 0.99 |
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replica tensor network [ref] calculations for systems of $L=256$ qubits:
Lecture Notes on Replica Tensor Networks for Random Quantum Circuits · Introduction · 0.90
Cites as background 22 papers
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For coherence, the free set is the convex hull of the computational basis projectors, $INCOH≡{∑_zp_z|z⟩⟨z|: p_z≥0, ∑_zp_z=1}$ [ref] ; the free reference is the dephased state $ρ_A^D=∑_z⟨z|ρ_A|z⟩|z⟩⟨z |$, and Eq. [ref] yields the Rényi-2 relative entropy of coherence [equation] For imaginarity, the free set consists of the states that are real in the computational basis, $REAL≡{ρ: ⟨z|ρ|z'⟩∈ℝ ∀z,z'}$ [ref] ; the free reference is the realification $ℜ(ρ)=(ρ+ρ^T)/2$, with transposition taken in the computational basis, giving the Rényi-2 relative entropy of imaginarity [equation] For asymmetry under a symmetry group $G$, the free set consists of the $G$-invariant states, $SYM_G≡{ρ: U_gρU_g^†=ρ ∀g∈G}$ [ref] ; the free reference is the twirled state $ρ_A,G$, giving the Rényi-2 entanglement asymmetry [equation] We consider various asymmetries: for the $U(1)$ charge $Q_A=∑_j∈An̂_j$, the twirled
Higher-order Symmetric Quantum Mpemba Effect in Fragmented Systems · Introduction · 0.92
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For coherence, the free set is the convex hull of the computational basis projectors, $INCOH≡{∑_zp_z|z⟩⟨z|: p_z≥0, ∑_zp_z=1}$ [ref] ; the free reference is the dephased state $ρ_A^D=∑_z⟨z|ρ_A|z⟩|z⟩⟨z |$, and Eq. [ref] yields the Rényi-2 relative entropy of coherence [equation] For imaginarity, the free set consists of the states that are real in the computational basis, $REAL≡{ρ: ⟨z|ρ|z'⟩∈ℝ ∀z,z'}$ [ref] ; the free reference is the realification $ℜ(ρ)=(ρ+ρ^T)/2$, with transposition taken in the computational basis, giving the Rényi-2 relative entropy of imaginarity [equation] For asymmetry under a symmetry group $G$, the free set consists of the $G$-invariant states, $SYM_G≡{ρ: U_gρU_g^†=ρ ∀g∈G}$ [ref] ; the free reference is the twirled state $ρ_A,G$, giving the Rényi-2 entanglement asymmetry [equation] We consider various asymmetries: for the $U(1)$ charge $Q_A=∑_j∈An̂_j$, the twirled
Enhancing entanglement asymmetry in fragmented quantum systems · Introduction · 0.92
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Evolution of quantum resource measures in interacting many-body systems, therefore, offers a natural probe of how quantumness is dynamically generated, redistributed, and ultimately scrambled, connecting resource dynamics to quantum chaos [ref] , information scrambling [ref] , thermalization [ref] , critical phenomena [ref] , conformal field theory [ref] , monitored dynamics [ref] , resource Mpemba effect [ref] and metrological response [ref] .
A nonstabilizerness monotone from stabilizerness asymmetry · Introduction · 0.87
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