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Multipartite Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger Entanglement in Monitored Random Clifford Circuits

Quantum Physics 2025-11-26 v4 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

Interactions in Many-body systems are typically short-range and few-body. We investigate how such local interactions build up long-range and intrinsically multipartite entanglement by studying the nn-partite Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZn\text{GHZ}_n) entanglement in monitored random Clifford circuits, which is well-known for a measurement-induced transition between phases of volume-law and area-law (bipartite) entanglement. We obtain a series of results: (1) About 1.25 GHZ3|\text{GHZ}_3\rangle can be extracted from states in the volume-law phase. This value is remarkably universal, independent of both the measurement rate and partitioning details, until a phase transition (either measurement-induced or a newly identified partitioning-induced transition) is approached. (2) Dynamically, The creation (sometimes also the annihilation) of GHZ3\text{GHZ}_3 entanglement occur suddenly via dynamical phase transitions (DPTs). The critical points of these DPTs are governed by the entanglement speed (vEv_E) of biaprtite entanglement. (3) In stark contrast to GHZn3\text{GHZ}_{n\leq 3}, GHZn4\text{GHZ}_{n\geq 4} entanglement is statistically significant only at the measurement-induced critical point, not in the bulk of the volume-law phase. Our results uncover a rich and previously overlooked hierarchy of multipartite entanglement structures.

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@article{arxiv.2407.03206,
  title  = {Multipartite Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger Entanglement in Monitored Random Clifford Circuits},
  author = {Guanglei Xu and Yu-Xiang Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.03206},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

Latest update: speed of GHZ spread. New results included: Dynamical phase transitions of the birth and death of GHZ entanglement; Multipartite GHZ emerges at the measurement-induced criticality. 6 pages, 4 figures, 5 pages supplemental material