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Disappearance of measurement-induced phase transition in a quantum spin system for large sizes

Quantum Physics 2026-04-22 v3 Statistical Mechanics

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 τ\tau, followed by a measurement that provides a ``yes/no'' answer to the question, ``Are all spins up?''. The survival probability after nn time-steps is defined as the probability that the answer is ``no'' in all the nn time-steps. For various τ\tau values, we compute the survival probability, entanglement in bipartition, and the generalized geometric measure, a genuine multiparty entanglement, for a chain of size L26L \sim 26, and identify a transition at τc0.2\tau_c \sim 0.2 for field strength h=1/2h=1/2. 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 τc1/L\tau_c \sim 1/\sqrt{L}. The transition at finite τc\tau_c for L28L \sim 28 seems therefore to recede to τc=0\tau_c = 0 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