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Frustration-Free Control and Absorbing-State Transport in Entangled State Preparation

Quantum Physics 2026-04-06 v1

Abstract

We study frustration-free control, a measurement-feedback protocol for quantum state preparation that extends the concept of frustration-free Hamiltonians to stochastic dynamics. The protocol drives many-body systems into highly entangled target states, common dark states of all measurement projectors, through minimal local unitary corrections that realize an absorbing-state dynamics without post-selection. We show that relaxation to the target state is governed by emergent transport of nonlocal charges, such as singlet excitations in SU(2)(2)-symmetric dynamics. While measurement-feedback annihilates compatible charge configurations, both measurement and scrambling unitaries induce charge transport and thus determine the convergence time. Mapping a baseline model of SU(N)(N) SWAP measurements with local corrections to a solvable absorbing random walk yields a runtime scaling tLzt \sim L^z with transport exponent z=2z=2. Simulations of Motzkin and Fredkin chains reveal subdiffusive scaling z83z \ge \tfrac{8}{3}, confirming the transport picture and suggesting strategies for controlled entangled-state preparation and charge-transport probing in monitored quantum dynamics.

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@article{arxiv.2510.24845,
  title  = {Frustration-Free Control and Absorbing-State Transport in Entangled State Preparation},
  author = {T. Dörstel and T. Iadecola and J. H. Wilson and M. Buchhold},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.24845},
  year   = {2026}
}