Entanglement, anti-flatness, and nonlocal nonstabilizerness: a unified perspective from entanglement spectrum

arXiv:2609.01993 · quant-ph · Submitted 2026-09-02 · Read on arXiv

quant-ph

Submitted: 2026-09-02

Updated: 2026-09-17

Comments: 36 pages, 2 figures. Supplemental material (29 pages) is added. Numerical results are updated

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

The gist: Entanglement and nonstabilizerness capture distinct aspects of quantum complexity, yet their relation through the entanglement spectrum remains poorly understood.

Terminology

Abstract

Entanglement and nonstabilizerness capture distinct aspects of quantum complexity, yet their relation through the entanglement spectrum remains poorly understood. Here we develop a spectral framework for bipartite nonlocal nonstabilizerness. We introduce a generalized anti-flatness and derive upper and lower bounds on the nonlocal stabilizer Rényi entropy (SRE) in terms of Rényi entanglement entropy and spectral non-uniformity. We further reduce the local-unitary optimization to a single-unitary problem and prove that the ordered Schmidt reference state is a local minimum of the SRE for integer α at least2. Applying these results to exponentially and algebraically decaying spectra reveals parametrically distinct relations between entanglement and nonlocal nonstabilizerness. For broad spectra, we introduce a dyadic-shell sandwich construction that determines the asymptotic SRE scaling. At one-dimensional conformal critical points, it yields a universal hierarchy of double-logarithmic scaling laws for integer α at least2. Our spectral bounds and dyadic-shell sandwich construction provide general tools for analyzing nonlocal SRE, offering a flexible framework that can be applied to a wide range of entanglement spectra in quantum many-body systems.

Sources

Related papers