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Nonlocal Magic Spreading in Many-body Quantum Dynamics: From Chaotic Evolution to Quasi-particle Picture in Integrable Models

Sep 2026 · 3 citations · 28 references
Physics

Abstract

Entanglement and magic are resources that reveal complementary aspects of quantum many-body systems. Their interplay is captured by nonlocal magic, the magic that survives arbitrary local changes of basis. Yet their markedly different dynamical behavior leaves open how this irreducible component of magic spreads. Here we connect nonlocal magic to the capacity of entanglement, a tractable quantity measuring fluctuations of the entanglement Hamiltonian. This connection enables analytically controlled predictions across a wide range of many-body dynamics, from chaotic to integrable systems, which we investigate also using large-scale numerical simulations. In chaotic systems, nonlocal magic exhibits a transient buildup, with logarithmic growth in time followed by decay to a size-independent value. For integrable systems, we develop a quasiparticle picture in quantitative agreement with numerics, showing that the same initial growth instead leads to saturation at a value logarithmic in subsystem size. These contrasting behaviors have an operational consequence for entanglement embezzlement: the strongest scramblers embezzle only transiently, whereas free-fermionic dynamics can sustain universal embezzlement in the steady state.

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