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This article establishes the first systematic bounds on operator‑entanglement growth for brickwork circuits built from Yang–Baxter gates, showing that many such integrable gate families keep the Schmidt rank either constant or only polynomially increasing in time. By linking these results to the broader surge of research on dual‑unitary and solvable quantum dynamics, it clarifies which gate sets remain efficiently classically simulable and which may generate rapid scrambling—a key consideration for both algorithm design and hardware benchmarking. The construction of a seven‑state Yang–Baxter gate that nevertheless yields exponential Schmidt‑rank growth also warns that integrability alone does not guarantee low entanglement, highlighting an open frontier for future theoretical and experimental work.
— Mark Eatherly
Summary
We study the operator entanglement of local operators in one-dimensional brickwork circuits whose two-site gate satisfies the braid relation; throughout this work, we call such a gate a Yang--Baxter gate. We establish upper bounds for several structured, overlapping classes of Yang--Baxter gates. We show that the operator Schmidt rank remains uniformly bounded in time for all qubit Yang--Baxter gates and, in arbitrary local dimension, for permutation gates obtained from non-degenerate Yang--Baxter maps. We also show that it grows at most polynomially for involutive dual-unitary Yang--Baxter gates and for arbitrary phase dressings of permutation gates obtained from non-degenerate Yang--Baxter maps. These results imply, respectively, constant and logarithmic upper bounds on the operator entanglement. Conversely, we construct a seven-state involutive Yang--Baxter gate without dual unitarity and a one-site operator whose exact operator Schmidt rank grows exponentially, although the corresponding operator entropies remain undetermined. Entanglement growth in the general Yang--Baxter case remains open. All proofs and selected examples were constructed by ChatGPT 5.6 Sol.