Fidelity Decay Saturation Level for Initial Eigenstates

Weinstein, Yaakov S.; Emerson, Joseph V.; Lloyd, Seth; Cory, David G.

Fidelity Decay Saturation Level for Initial Eigenstates

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We show that the fidelity decay between an initial eigenstate state evolved under a unitary chaotic operator and the same eigenstate evolved under a perturbed operator saturates well before the 1/N limit, where $N$ is the size of the Hilbert space, expected for a generic initial state. We provide a theoretical argument and numerical evidence that, for intermediate perturbation strengths, the saturation level depends quadratically on the perturbation strength.
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