Disappearance of measurement-induced phase transition in a quantum spin system for large sizes
Abstract
Measurement-induced phase transitions are often studied in random quantum circuits, with local measurements performed with a certain probability. We present here a model where a global measurement is performed with certainty at every time-step of the measurement protocol. Each time step, therefore, consists of evolution under the transverse Ising Hamiltonian for a time , followed by a measurement that provides a ``yes/no'' answer to the question, ``Are all spins up?''. The survival probability after time-steps is defined as the probability that the answer is ``no'' in all the time-steps. For various values, we compute the survival probability, entanglement in bipartition, and the generalized geometric measure, a genuine multiparty entanglement, for a chain of size , and identify a transition at for field strength . We then analytically derive a recursion relation that enables us to calculate the survival probability for system sizes up to 1000, which provides evidence of a scaling . The transition at finite for seems therefore to recede to in the thermodynamic limit. Additionally, at large time-steps, survival probability decays logarithmically only when the ground state of the Hamiltonian is paramagnetic. Such decay is not present when the ground state is ferromagnetic.
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@article{arxiv.2501.17606,
title = {Disappearance of measurement-induced phase transition in a quantum spin system for large sizes},
author = {Paranjoy Chaki and Protyush Nandi and Ujjwal Sen and Subinay Dasgupta},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.17606},
year = {2026}
}
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13 pages, 15 figures