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Critical systems host nontrivial entanglement structure that is generally sensitive to additional couplings. In the present work, we study the effect of weak measurements on the entanglement Hamiltonian of massless free fermions which are…

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We analyze the dynamics of entanglement entropy in a generic quantum many-body open system from the perspective of quantum information and error corrections. We introduce a random unitary circuit model with intermittent projective…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-17 Soonwon Choi , Yimu Bao , Xiao-Liang Qi , Ehud Altman

Many-body localization is a dynamical phenomenon characteristic of strongly interacting and disordered many-body quantum systems which fail to achieve thermal equilibrium. From a quantum information perspective, the fingerprint of this…

Entanglement is the key feature of many-body quantum systems, and the development of new tools to probe it in the laboratory is an outstanding challenge. Measuring the entropy of different partitions of a quantum system provides a way to…

Measurement-induced entanglement phase transitions, caused by the competition between entangling unitary dynamics and disentangling projective measurements, have been studied in various random circuit models in recent years. In this paper,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-02 Xuyang Yu , Xiao-Liang Qi

This work will incorporate a few related tools for addressing the conceptual difficulties arising from sewing together classical and quantum mechanics: deterministic operators, weak measurements and post-selection. Weak Measurement, based…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 Eliahu Cohen , Yakir Aharonov

The von Neumann entanglement entropy is a useful measure to characterize a quantum phase transition. We investigate the non-analyticity of this entropy at disorder-dominated quantum phase transitions in non-interacting electronic systems.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-01-27 X. Jia , A. R. Subramaniam , I. A. Gruzberg , S. Chakravarty

Measurement-induced phase transitions are the subject of intense current research, both from an experimental and a theoretical perspective. We explore the concept of implementing quantum measurements by coupling a many-body lattice system…

The experimental realization of successive non-demolition measurements on single microscopic systems brings up the question of ergodicity in Quantum Mechanics (QM). We investigate whether time averages over one realization of a single…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-06 Mariano Bauer , Pier A. Mello

When subject to a non-local unitary evolution, qubits in a quantum circuit become increasingly entangled. Conversely, measurements applied to individual qubits lead to their disentanglement from the collective system. The extent of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-22 Sourav Manna , Vaibhav Madhok , Arul Lakshminarayan

We study measurement-induced phase transitions in quantum circuits consisting of kicked Ising models with postselected weak measurements, whose dynamics can be mapped onto a classical dynamical system. For a periodic (Floquet) non-unitary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Bastien Lapierre , Liang-Hong Mo , Shinsei Ryu

The transition between many-body localized states and the delocalized thermal states is an eigen-state phase transition at finite energy density outside the scope of conventional quantum statistical mechanics. In this work we investigate…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-08-13 Wei Zhang , Ziqiang Wang

The description of complex systems requires a progressively larger number of parameters. However, in practice, it often happens that a small subset of parameters suffices to describe the dynamics of the system itself: these combinations are…

The main power of quantum sensors is achieved when the probe is composed of several particles. In this situation, quantum features such as entanglement contribute to enhancing the precision of quantum sensors beyond the capacity of…

Equilibrium probes have been widely used in various noisy quantum metrology schemes. However, such an equilibrium-probe-based metrology scenario severely suffers from the low-temperature-error divergence problem in the weak-coupling regime.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-28 Ze-Zhou Zhang , Hong-Gang Luo , Wei Wu

We propose a phase-space Wigner harmonics entropy measure for many-body quantum dynamical complexity. This measure, which reduces to the well known measure of complexity in classical systems and which is valid for both pure and mixed states…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-10-22 Vinitha Balachandran , Giuliano Benenti , Giulio Casati , Jiangbin Gong

Measurements with variable system-detector interaction strength, ranging from weak to strong, have been recently reported in a number of electronic nanosystems. In several such instances many-body effects play a significant role. Here we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-11 Iliya Esin , Alessandro Romito , Ya. M. Blanter , Yuval Gefen

It is shown that the von Neumann entropy, a measure of quantum entanglement, does have its classical counterpart in thermodynamic systems, which we call partial entropy. Close to the critical temperature the partial entropy shows perfect…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 Junpeng Cao , Xiaoling Cui , Zhang Qi , Wengang Lu , Qian Niu , Yupeng Wang

We study the properties of mixed states obtained from eigenstates of many-body lattice Hamiltonians after tracing out part of the lattice. Two scenarios emerge for generic systems: (i) the diagonal entropy becomes equivalent to the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-04 Lea F. Santos , Anatoli Polkovnikov , Marcos Rigol

Phase transitions are driven by collective fluctuations of a system's constituents that emerge at a critical point. This mechanism has been extensively explored for classical and quantum systems in equilibrium, whose critical behavior is…