Colored Weingarten Calculus for Block-Unitary Ensemble
quant-ph, cond-mat.stat-mech
Submitted: 2026-09-24
Updated: 2026-10-12
Comments: 11 pages, 6 figures
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
The gist: Haar randomness is the standard null model for quantum typicality, scrambling, and random-matrix formulations of thermalization.
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Abstract
Haar randomness is the standard null model for quantum typicality, scrambling, and random-matrix formulations of thermalization. In many physical settings, however, randomness is naturally constrained to subspaces of Hilbert space. This structure arises, in particular, both in systems with symmetry-resolved sectors and in the Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis (ETH), where mesoscopic energy windows define subspaces in which nearby energy eigenstates are mixed. Motivated by these settings, we consider a Block-Unitary Ensemble consisting of independently Haar-random unitaries acting on each subspace. We develop a constructive Weingarten Calculus for this ensemble, providing a unified framework across quantum information and many-body physics. This construction reveals a symmetry-resolved Schur-Weyl duality, where the relevant commutant is not the ordinary permutation algebra, but the one of color-preserving permutations. We apply this framework to quantum states under symmetry constraints and to energy-resolved ensembles for ETH.
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