Pseudo Entropy in Quantum Spin Chains: from Integrability to Chaos

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In this work, we study pseudo entropy and spectral dynamics in quantum spin chains (Heisenberg XXZ model and the mixed-field Ising model) to investigate whether they can serve as diagnostics of quantum chaos. First, we derive an exact relation between the real part of the thermal pseudo entropy and the spectral form factor. This provided evidence that pseudo entropy could exhibit the characteristic dip, logarithmic ramp, and plateau, implying the precise manner in which pseudo entropy probes chaos. We found that the imaginary part, while it does not diagnose chaos, can still provide crucial information about Fisher zeros that is not available in the real counterpart. For spatial pseudo entropy in the XXZ chain, we find that the logarithmic critical scaling persists in both integrable and chaotic regimes, and that the non-positivity conjecture holds. Finally, we derive an exact connection between pseudo entropy, relative pseudo entropy, and spectral complexity with a potential connection to holography.

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@misc{rana2026pseudo,
  title = {{Pseudo Entropy in Quantum Spin Chains: from Integrability to Chaos}},
  author = {Tara Bahadur Rana and Yadav Raj Dahal and Kiran Adhikari},
  howpublished = {arXiv},
  year = {2026},
  month = aug,
  doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2608.29810},
  eprint = {2608.29810},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.29810},
  note = {CC BY 4.0},
}

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TI  - Pseudo Entropy in Quantum Spin Chains: from Integrability to Chaos
AU  - Tara Bahadur Rana
AU  - Yadav Raj Dahal
AU  - Kiran Adhikari
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/08/30
PB  - arXiv
DO  - 10.48550/arxiv.2608.29810
UR  - https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.29810
AB  - In this work, we study pseudo entropy and spectral dynamics in quantum spin chains (Heisenberg XXZ model and the mixed-field Ising model) to investigate whether they can serve as diagnostics of quantum chaos. First, we derive an exact relation between the real part of the thermal pseudo entropy and the spectral form factor. This provided evidence that pseudo entropy could exhibit the characteristic dip, logarithmic ramp, and plateau, implying the precise manner in which pseudo entropy probes chaos. We found that the imaginary part, while it does not diagnose chaos, can still provide crucial information about Fisher zeros that is not available in the real counterpart. For spatial pseudo entropy in the XXZ chain, we find that the logarithmic critical scaling persists in both integrable and chaotic regimes, and that the non-positivity conjecture holds. Finally, we derive an exact connection between pseudo entropy, relative pseudo entropy, and spectral complexity with a potential connection to holography.
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