Extensive entropy from unitary evolution

DOI10.12351/KS.2109.0928 10.20944/PREPRINTS202104.0254.V1 10.12351/KS.2109.0928MaRDI QIDQ6364589zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Yichen Huang

Publication date 5 April 2021

Full work available at URL 10.12351/KS.2109.0928 https://doi.org/10.20944/PREPRINTS202104.0254.V1 10.12351/KS.2109.0928

Abstract: In quantum many-body systems, a Hamiltonian is called an ``extensive entropy generator if starting from a random product state the entanglement entropy obeys a volume law at long times with overwhelming probability. We prove that (i) any Hamiltonian whose spectrum has non-degenerate gaps is an extensive entropy generator; (ii) in the space of (geometrically) local Hamiltonians, the non-degenerate gap condition is satisfied almost everywhere. Specializing to many-body localized systems, these results imply the observation stated in the title of Bardarson et al. [PRL 109, 017202 (2012)].

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