Dynamical irreversibility and local decoherence in quantum many-body chaos

Abstract

Typical dynamical quantum chaos probes are initial-state dependent (e.g., local observables or purities) and thus may fail to capture typical decoherent behavior one expects of a subsystem. Quantum channels fully capture the reduced dynamics of a subsystem. Here, we investigate the purity of the Choi state of a single spin in a chain, which acts as the state representation of the channel encoding the reduced dynamics. Operationally, we show this quantity functions as an echo protocol, termed the \textit{Choi echo}. It measures the environment's recovery fidelity when subjected to a forward evolution, a completely depolarizing operation on the local subsystem, and a subsequent backward evolution. We investigate the equilibration value of the Choi echo across the integrability-to-chaos transition in three paradigmatic spin-$1/2$ chains. We show that average single-spin decoherence does not uniquely correspond to spectral chaos. Specifically, coherent transport in integrable systems can mimic the mean relaxation of a single spin typically induced by chaotic scrambling, generating false positives for spectral chaos. This work offers a perspective bridging quantum information tools with many-body quantum chaos.

9 pages, 4 figures. Major revisions in abstract, introduction, and conclusions

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