Entanglement Growth as Transport Across Schmidt Scales
Abstract
Quantum entanglement growth is commonly summarized by a single entropy, obscuring where correlations reside in the exponentially large Schmidt spectrum and how they form. Here, we introduce Schmidt-scale concentration and dominant Schmidt scale, two coordinates that locate the probability maximum across logarithmic windows in ordered Schmidt-rank space. Applied to quenches of a random-field spin chain, these coordinates distinguish rapid transport of the dominant scale to higher Schmidt rank at weak disorder from strongly suppressed transport despite continued logarithmic entropy growth at strong disorder. The disorder-averaged dynamics exhibit an ordered hierarchy: entropy production peaks first, spectral roughness and exact nonlocal magic peak next, and dominant-Schmidt-scale transport becomes typical only after a substantial delay. Moreover, a solvable head--tail model and controlled numerical experiments reveal the physical origin of this hierarchy: the spectral path determines the order of events, local dynamics on active exchange bonds set their early timing, and intra-subsystem many-body dressing further delays dominant-Schmidt-scale transport. These results establish the Schmidt-scale coordinates as powerful dynamical probes for uncovering fine-grained entanglement structures distinguishing entanglement production, entanglement-spectrum reorganization, and dominant-Schmidt-scale transport beyond entropy alone.
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BibTeX
@misc{zhang2026entanglement,
title = {{Entanglement Growth as Transport Across Schmidt Scales}},
author = {Shi-Xin Zhang and Shuo Liu and Yu-Qin Chen},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.06643},
eprint = {2609.06643},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.06643},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Entanglement Growth as Transport Across Schmidt Scales
AU - Shi-Xin Zhang
AU - Shuo Liu
AU - Yu-Qin Chen
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/06
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.06643
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.06643
AB - Quantum entanglement growth is commonly summarized by a single entropy, obscuring where correlations reside in the exponentially large Schmidt spectrum and how they form. Here, we introduce Schmidt-scale concentration and dominant Schmidt scale, two coordinates that locate the probability maximum across logarithmic windows in ordered Schmidt-rank space. Applied to quenches of a random-field spin chain, these coordinates distinguish rapid transport of the dominant scale to higher Schmidt rank at weak disorder from strongly suppressed transport despite continued logarithmic entropy growth at strong disorder. The disorder-averaged dynamics exhibit an ordered hierarchy: entropy production peaks first, spectral roughness and exact nonlocal magic peak next, and dominant-Schmidt-scale transport becomes typical only after a substantial delay. Moreover, a solvable head--tail model and controlled numerical experiments reveal the physical origin of this hierarchy: the spectral path determines the order of events, local dynamics on active exchange bonds set their early timing, and intra-subsystem many-body dressing further delays dominant-Schmidt-scale transport. These results establish the Schmidt-scale coordinates as powerful dynamical probes for uncovering fine-grained entanglement structures distinguishing entanglement production, entanglement-spectrum reorganization, and dominant-Schmidt-scale transport beyond entropy alone.
ER -