Entanglement spectrum and magic in higher-dimensional free fermionic systems

arXiv:2609.36008 · quant-ph, cond-mat.stat-mech · Submitted 2026-09-28 · Read on arXiv

quant-ph, cond-mat.stat-mech

Submitted: 2026-09-28

Updated: 2026-09-28

Comments: 10 figures, comments are welcome

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

The gist: We study fermionic non-local magic in higher-dimensional free-fermion systems through the lens of the entanglement spectrum.

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We study fermionic non-local magic in higher-dimensional free-fermion systems through the lens of the entanglement spectrum. For translationally invariant Gaussian states in strip geometries, dimensional reduction maps the problem to independent lower-dimensional momentum sectors, leading in two dimensions to a multiplicative logarithmic violation of the boundary law analogous to Gioev-Klich-Widom scaling. We further show that the second Rényi fermionic non-local magic is bounded by the capacity of entanglement and introduce an entanglement-temperature deformation that probes the low-energy structure of the entanglement Hamiltonian. Applied to the matter-Majorana sector of the Kitaev model, this response is exponentially suppressed in the Abelian phase and algebraic in the non-Abelian phase, where its ratio with the capacity approaches a universal constant. Out of equilibrium, we extend the quasi-particle description to fermionic non-local magic in higher-dimensional quenches and show that random Gaussian circuits exhibit diffusive spreading in two spatial dimensions.

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