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Monitored quantum circuits can exhibit an entanglement transition as a function of the rate of measurements, stemming from the competition between scrambling unitary dynamics and disentangling projective measurements. We study how…

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We investigate the critical behavior of the entanglement transition induced by projective measurements in (Haar) random unitary quantum circuits. Using a replica approach, we map the calculation of the entanglement entropies in such…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-03-11 Chao-Ming Jian , Yi-Zhuang You , Romain Vasseur , Andreas W. W. Ludwig

The evolution of entanglement entropy in quantum circuits composed of Haar-random gates and projective measurements shows versatile behavior, with connections to phase transitions and complexity theory. We reformulate the problem in terms…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-04-16 Oles Shtanko , Yaroslav A. Kharkov , Luis Pedro García-Pintos , Alexey V. Gorshkov

Characterizing how entanglement grows with time in a many-body system, for example after a quantum quench, is a key problem in non-equilibrium quantum physics. We study this problem for the case of random unitary dynamics, representing…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-08-02 Adam Nahum , Jonathan Ruhman , Sagar Vijay , Jeongwan Haah

We study the entanglement dynamics of quantum automaton (QA) circuits in the presence of U(1) symmetry. We find that the second R\'enyi entropy grows diffusively with a logarithmic correction as $\sqrt{t\ln{t}}$, saturating the bound…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-13 Yiqiu Han , Xiao Chen

We analyse the entanglement structure of states generated by random constant-depth two-dimensional quantum circuits, followed by projective measurements of a subset of sites. By deriving a rigorous lower bound on the average entanglement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-21 Max McGinley , Wen Wei Ho , Daniel Malz

Information-theoretic quantities such as Renyi entropies show a remarkable universality in their late-time behaviour across a variety of chaotic many-body systems. Understanding how such common features emerge from very different…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-02 Shreya Vardhan , Sanjay Moudgalya

Understanding the nature of entanglement growth in many-body systems is one of the fundamental questions in quantum physics. Here, we study this problem by characterizing the entanglement fluctuations and distribution of $(d+1)$ qubit…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-12-22 Piotr Sierant , Marco Schirò , Maciej Lewenstein , Xhek Turkeshi

We study the influence of conservation laws on entanglement growth. Focusing on systems with U(1) symmetry, i.e., conservation of charge or magnetization, that exhibits diffusive dynamics, we theoretically predict the growth of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-06-25 Marko Znidaric

Quantum entanglement is affected by unitary evolution, which spreads the entanglement through the whole system, and also by measurements, which usually tends to disentangle subsystems from the rest. Their competition has been known to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-24 Haifeng Tang , Hong-Yi Wang , Zhong Wang , Xiao-Liang Qi

We study the dynamics of entanglement asymmetry in random unitary circuits (RUCs). Focusing on a local $U(1)$ charge, we consider symmetric initial states evolved by both local one-dimensional circuits and geometrically non-local RUCs made…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-29 Filiberto Ares , Sara Murciano , Pasquale Calabrese , Lorenzo Piroli

We study the growth of entanglement and circuit complexity in random passive linear optical networks as a function of the circuit depth. For entanglement dynamics, we start with an initial Gaussian state with all $n$ modes squeezed. For…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 Laura Shou , Joseph T. Iosue , Yu-Xin Wang , Victor Galitski , Alexey V. Gorshkov

Studies of random unitary circuits have shown that the calculation of Renyi entropies of entanglement can be mapped to classical statistical mechanics problems in spacetime. In this paper, we develop an analogous spacetime picture of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-13 Tobias Swann , Denis Bernard , Adam Nahum

We consider a generic one dimensional spin system of length $ L $, arbitrarily large, with strictly local interactions, for example nearest neighbor, and prove that the dynamical $ \alpha $-R\'enyi entropies, $ 0 < \alpha \le 1 $, of an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-25 Daniele Toniolo , Sougato Bose

Unitary dynamics of a quantum system initialized in a selected basis state yields, generically, a state that is a superposition of all the basis states. This process, associated with the quantum information scrambling and intimately tied to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-22 Xhek Turkeshi , Piotr Sierant

The spreading of entanglement in out-of-equilibrium quantum systems is currently at the centre of intense interdisciplinary research efforts involving communities with interests ranging from holography to quantum information. Here we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-05-21 Bruno Bertini , Pavel Kos , Tomaz Prosen

We investigate the distribution of entanglement entropy in hybrid quantum circuits consisting of random unitary gates and local measurements applied at a finite rate. We demonstrate that higher moments of the entanglement entropy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Jeonghyeok Park , Hyukjoon Kwon , Hyunseok Jeong

We introduce a systematic framework to calculate the bipartite entanglement entropy of a compact spatial subsystem in a one-dimensional quantum gas which can be mapped into a noninteracting fermion system. We show that when working with a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-28 Pasquale Calabrese , Mihail Mintchev , Ettore Vicari

We introduce the concept of entanglement features of unitary gates, as a collection of exponentiated entanglement entropies over all bipartitions of input and output channels. We obtained the general formula for time-dependent $n$th-Renyi…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-06 Yi-Zhuang You , Yingfei Gu

We study the time evolution of the entanglement entropy in the short and long-range coupled harmonic oscillators that have well-defined continuum limit field theories. We first introduce a method to calculate the entanglement evolution in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-30 M. Ghasemi Nezhadhaghighi , M. A. Rajabpour
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