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Boundary transfer matrix spectrum of measurement-induced transitions

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks 2024-01-08 v2 Statistical Mechanics Quantum Physics

Abstract

Measurement-induced phase transitions (MIPTs) are known to be described by non-unitary conformal field theories (CFTs) whose precise nature remains unknown. Most physical quantities of interest, such as the entanglement features of quantum trajectories, are described by boundary observables in this CFT. We introduce a transfer matrix approach to study the boundary spectrum of this field theory, and consider a variety of boundary conditions. We apply this approach numerically to monitored Haar and Clifford circuits, and to the measurement-only Ising model where the boundary scaling dimensions can be derived analytically. Our transfer matrix approach provides a systematic numerical tool to study the spectrum of MIPTs.

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@article{arxiv.2310.03078,
  title  = {Boundary transfer matrix spectrum of measurement-induced transitions},
  author = {Abhishek Kumar and Kemal Aziz and Ahana Chakraborty and Andreas W. W. Ludwig and Sarang Gopalakrishnan and J. H. Pixley and Romain Vasseur},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.03078},
  year   = {2024}
}

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17 pages, 12 figures, 1 table