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Generalized Lindblad Master Equation for Measurement-Induced Phase Transition

Quantum Physics 2023-01-03 v3 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks Quantum Gases

Abstract

The measurement-induced phase transition (MIPT) occurs when the system is evolving under unitary evolution together with local measurements followed by post-selection. We propose a generalized version of the Lindblad master equation as a continuous equation, to describe the dynamics of second R\'enyi entropy in the MIPT. This generalized Lindblad equation explicitly takes into account the post-selection in the MIPT, which is realized as the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) state projection in the equation. Also, this generalized Lindblad equation preserves the Hermitian, unit trace, and positive definiteness of the density matrix. We further use the hard-core Bose-Hubbard model as a concrete example to numerically confirm that our generalized Lindblad equation is applicable to describing the MIPT.

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@article{arxiv.2204.09049,
  title  = {Generalized Lindblad Master Equation for Measurement-Induced Phase Transition},
  author = {Yi-Neng Zhou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.09049},
  year   = {2023}
}

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11 pages, 3 figures, and appendix 8 pages, 6 figures

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