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Diffusive dynamics of nonstabilizerness

Zhenyu Xiao and Shinsei Ryu

Phys. Rev. Lett. - Accepted 9 October, 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/1lwn-4x3d

Abstract

Symmetries shape the quantum-information dynamics of many-body systems, but their effect on nonstabilizerness, the resource complementary to entanglement, is less understood. We compute the stabilizer Renyi entropy, a measure of nonstabilizerness, in U(1)-symmetric one-dimensional random circuits. The disorder-averaged dynamics is captured by a four-replica tensor network, which we evaluate by S4-adapted infinite time-evolving block decimation (iTEBD) directly in the thermodynamic limit. Together with a hydrodynamic argument, our results identify a diffusive universality class for the late-time approach of nonstabilizerness to its random-state value, with the stabilizer Renyi entropy gap closing as 1/t. The same scaling is verified in an energy-conserving nonintegrable Ising chain. More broadly, our framework provides a hydrodynamic perspective on nonstabilizerness generation and offers insight into the design of approximate Haar-random states in Hamiltonian dynamics.

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