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Super-Logarithmic Entanglement Scaling in a Monitored Superconducting Chain

Quantum Physics 2026-07-08 v1 Statistical Mechanics Superconductivity

Abstract

We develop a Keldysh-replica non-linear sigma model (NLSM) for the entanglement dynamics of a monitored one-dimensional spinful ss-wave BCS chain in the rare-measurement regime, γJ,Δ\gamma \ll J,\Delta. Although the clean spinful ss-wave BCS Hamiltonian belongs to symmetry class CI, spin-resolved measurements and projection to a conserved ff-sector reduce the effective problem to class C. Starting from the corresponding parent symplectic saddle, we show that measurement backaction and the pairing amplitude impose complementary mass constraints that gap out different fluctuation channels. Their interplay dynamically projects the surviving massless modes onto an SO(R)\textrm{SO(R)} target manifold in replica space. A one-loop renormalization group analysis of this SO(R)\textrm{SO(R)} NLSM shows that, in the replica limit R1R\to1, the beta function becomes negative, producing a weak-anti-localization flow. This flow yields a super-logarithmic steady-state entanglement scaling S(L)ln2LS(L)\sim \ln^2 L in the rare-measurement regime. Our field-theoretic result explains the numerical evidence reported in the companion Letter [arXiv:2604.04375] and shows that a topologically trivial monitored ss-wave superconductor can realize an SO(R)\textrm{SO(R)} weak-anti-localizing critical phase without relying on a Wess-Zumino-Witten term.

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@article{arxiv.2607.07835,
  title  = {Super-Logarithmic Entanglement Scaling in a Monitored Superconducting Chain},
  author = {Rui-Jing Guo and Zhi-Yuan Wei},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.07835},
  year   = {2026}
}

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27 pages, no figure. Comments are welcome