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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…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-22 Paranjoy Chaki , Protyush Nandi , Ujjwal Sen , Subinay Dasgupta

The competition between interactions and dissipative processes in a quantum many-body system can drive phase transitions of different order. Exploiting a combination of cluster methods and quantum trajectories, we show how the systematic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-12-19 Jiasen Jin , Alberto Biella , Oscar Viyuela , Cristiano Ciuti , Rosario Fazio , Davide Rossini

The entanglement and quantum correlation measures have been investigated for the ground state of a spin chain with a Kitaev-type exchange interactions on alternating bonds, along with a transverse magnetic field. There is a macroscopic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Vimalesh Kumar Vimal , V. Subrahmanyam

Scrambling unitary dynamics in a quantum system transmutes local quantum information into a non-local web of correlations which manifests itself in a complex spatio-temporal pattern of entanglement. In such a context, we show there can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-02 Alan Sherry , Sthitadhi Roy

Quantum computing allows for the manipulation of highly correlated states whose properties quickly go beyond the capacity of any classical method to calculate. Thus one natural problem which could lend itself to quantum advantage is the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-19 Kevin Lively , Tim Bode , Jochen Szangolies , Jian-Xin Zhu , Benedikt Fauseweh

A dynamical quantum phase transition can occur during time evolution of sudden quenched quantum systems across a phase transition. It corresponds to the nonanalytic behavior at a critical time of the rate function of the quantum state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-14 Xue-Yi Guo , Chao Yang , Yu Zeng , Yi Peng , He-Kang Li , Hui Deng , Yi-Rong Jin , Shu Chen , Dongning Zheng , Heng Fan

How long does it take to entangle two distant qubits in a quantum circuit evolved by generic unitary dynamics? We show that if the time evolution is followed by measurements of all but two infinitely separated test qubits, then the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-22 Yimu Bao , Maxwell Block , Ehud Altman

We use trapped atomic ions forming a hybrid Coulomb crystal, and exploit its phonons to study an isolated quantum system composed of a single spin coupled to an engineered bosonic environment. We increase the complexity of the system by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-21 Govinda Clos , Diego Porras , Ulrich Warring , Tobias Schaetz

Discrete quantum trajectories of systems under random unitary gates and projective measurements have been shown to feature transitions in the entanglement scaling that are not encoded in the density matrix. In this paper, we study the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-09-24 Nicolai Lang , Hans Peter Büchler

We propose to use the steered quantum coherence (SQC) as a signature of quantum phase transitions (QPTs). By considering various spin chain models, including the transverse-field Ising model, \textit{XY} model, and \textit{XX} model with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-09 Ming-Liang Hu , Yun-Yue Gao , Heng Fan

We study the phase transitions induced by sequentially measuring a single qubit precessing under an external transverse magnetic field. Under projective quantum measurement, the probability distribution of the measurement outcomes can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Xinru Tang , Fuxiang Li

This work is concerned with the excited state quantum phase transitions (ESQPTs) defined in Ann.Phys. 323, 1106 (2008). In many-body models that exhibit such transitions, the ground state quantum phase transition (QPT) occurs in parallel…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-01-08 Francisco Pérez-Bernal , Lea F. Santos

The quantum compass model consists of a two-dimensional square spin lattice where the orientation of the spin-spin interactions depends on the spatial direction of the bonds. It has remarkable symmetry properties and the ground state shows…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-01-19 Samuel Fernandez-Lorenzo , Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll , Diego Porras

A model of quantum measurement, illustrated using the spin--boson model, is formulated in terms of a cascading pair of quantum phase transitions. The first produces the desired superposition of macroscopic responses to the microscopic state…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-12-19 Peter B. Weichman

We introduce a method for analyzing ground state properties of quantum many body systems, based on the characterization of separability and entanglement by single subsystem unitary operations. We apply the method to the study of the ground…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-01-19 S. M. Giampaolo , F. Illuminati , P. Verrucchi , S. De Siena

We examine the phase diagram of the $p$-interaction spin glass model in a transverse field. We consider a spherical version of the model and compare with results obtained in the Ising case. The analysis of the spherical model, with and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-06-25 Theo M. Nieuwenhuizen , Felix Ritort

Phase transitions correspond to the singular behavior of physical systems in response to continuous control parameters like temperature or external fields. Near continuous phase transitions, associated with the divergence of a correlation…

We propose two easy-to-study observables in the quantum Ising chain with open boundary conditions. They measure the length at which boundaries affect the longitudinal or transverse magnetization. We show that their finite-size scaling…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-10-03 Oskar A. Prośniak

We review quantum phase transitions of spin systems in transverse magnetic fields taking the examples of the spin-1/2 Ising and XY models in a transverse field. Beginning with an overview of quantum phase transitions, we introduce a number…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-10 Amit Dutta , Gabriel Aeppli , Bikas K. Chakrabarti , Uma Divakaran , Thomas F. Rosenbaum , Diptiman Sen

In this paper, we study the ground state of a one-dimensional exactly solvable model with a spiral order. While the model's energy spectra is the same as the one-dimensional transverse field Ising model, its ground state manifests spiral…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-08-16 Shi-Jian Gu , Wing-Chi Yu , Hai-Qing Lin