Physics

Dual (grammatical number)

Mathematics

Quantum error correction

Random matrix

Unitary matrix

Algorithm

Statistical physics

Literature

Unitarity

Circular ensemble

Quantum circuit

Political science

Eigenvalues and eigenvectors

Ising model

Quantum computer

Quantum mechanics

State (computer science)

Unitary state

Quantum

Recent works have investigated the emergence of a new kind of random matrix behaviour in unitary dynamics following a quantum quench. Starting from a time-evolved state, an ensemble of pure states supported on a small subsystem can be generated by performing projective measurements on the remainder of the system, leading to a projected ensemble. In chaotic quantum systems it was conjectured that such projected ensembles become indistinguishable from the uniform Haar-random ensemble and lead to a quantum state design. Exact results were recently presented by Ho and Choi [Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 060601 (2022)] for the kicked Ising model at the self-dual point. We provide an alternative construction that can be extended to general chaotic dual-unitary circuits with solvable initial states and measurements, highlighting the role of the underlying dual-unitarity and further showing how dual-unitary circuit models exhibit both exact solvability and random matrix behaviour. Building on results from biunitary connections, we show how complex Hadamard matrices and unitary error bases both lead to solvable measurement schemes.

Emergent quantum state designs and biunitarity in dual-unitary circuit dynamics