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We consider Gaussian quantum circuits that alternate unitary gates and post-selected weak measurements, with spatial translation symmetry and time periodicity. We show analytically that such models can host different kinds of…

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We study critical properties of the entanglement and charge-sharpening measurement-induced phase transitions in a non-unitary quantum circuit evolving with a U(1) conserved charge. Our numerical estimation of the critical properties of the…

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The entanglement entropy for a quantum critical system across a boundary with a corner exhibits a sub-leading logarithmic scaling term with a scale-invariant coefficient. Using a Numerical Linked Cluster Expansion, we calculate this…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-06-30 Ann B. Kallin , E. M. Stoudenmire , Paul Fendley , Rajiv R. P. Singh , Roger G. Melko

We define dynamical universality classes for many-body systems whose unitary evolution is punctuated by projective measurements. In cases where such measurements occur randomly at a finite rate $p$ for each degree of freedom, we show that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-07-29 Brian Skinner , Jonathan Ruhman , Adam Nahum

The development and spread of entanglement in complex quantum systems is central to exploring many-body phenomena out of equilibrium. Measuring entanglement dynamics can shed light on information scrambling and thermalisation, namely on…

We study quantum circuits consisting of unitary gates, projective measurements, and control operations that steer the system towards a pure absorbing state. Two types of phase transition occur as the rate of these control operations is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-07 Lorenzo Piroli , Yaodong Li , Romain Vasseur , Adam Nahum

Subdominant contributions to the entanglement entropy of quantum fields include logarithmic corrections to the area law characterized by universal coefficients that are independent of the ultraviolet regulator and capture detailed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-28 Rodolfo Soldati , L. S. Menicucci , N. Yokomizo

Competition between unitary dynamics that scrambles quantum information non-locally and local measurements that probe and collapse the quantum state can result in a measurement-induced entanglement phase transition. Here we study this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-29 Gregory Bentsen , Subhayan Sahu , Brian Swingle

The intensely studied measurement-induced entanglement phase transition has become a hallmark of non-unitary quantum many-body dynamics. Usually, such a transition only shows up at the level of each individual quantum trajectory, and is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-07-26 Vikram Ravindranath , Yiqiu Han , Zhi-Cheng Yang , Xiao Chen

We study measurement-induced entanglement and control phase transitions in a quantum analog of the Bernoulli map subjected to a classically-inspired control protocol. When entangling gates are restricted to the Clifford group, separate…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-09-12 Conner LeMaire , Andrew A. Allocca , J. H. Pixley , Thomas Iadecola , Justin H. Wilson

The effects of different forms of weak measurements on the nature of the measurement induced phase transition are theoretically studied in hybrid random quantum circuits of qubits. We use a combination of entanglement measures, ancilla…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-10 Kemal Aziz , Ahana Chakraborty , J. H. Pixley

Ergodic quantum many-body systems undergoing unitary dynamics evolve towards increasingly entangled states characterized by an extensive scaling of entanglement entropy with system volume. At the other extreme, quantum systems repeatedly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-11 Jin Ming Koh , Shi-Ning Sun , Mario Motta , Austin J. Minnich

Recently discovered measurement-induced entanglement phase transitions in monitored quantum circuits provide a novel example of far-from-equilibrium quantum criticality. Here, we propose a highly efficient strategy for experimentally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-24 Ali G. Moghaddam , Kim Pöyhönen , Teemu Ojanen

We study entanglement entropy in gravity theory with quantum effects. A simplest model is a two dimensional Einstein-Hilbert action . We use an $n$-sheet manifold to obtain an area term of entanglement entropy by summing over all background…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-12 Chen-Te Ma

Entanglement phase transitions in quantum chaotic systems subject to projective measurements and in random tensor networks have emerged as a new class of critical points separating phases with different entanglement scaling. We propose a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-12 Javier Lopez-Piqueres , Brayden Ware , Romain Vasseur

We study measurement-induced entanglement generated by column-by-column sampling of noisy 2D random Clifford circuits of size $N$ and depth $T$. Focusing on the operator entanglement $S_{\rm op}$ of the sampling-induced boundary state,…

Measurement-only circuits provide a minimal setting in which repeated local projections can either generate or suppress many-body entanglement, giving rise to measurement-induced phase transitions and dynamical regimes, that might have no…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-27 Abigail McClain Gomez , Fiona Abney-McPeek , Hong-Ye Hu , Susanne F. Yelin , Ceren B. Dağ

We utilize the concept of a measurement-induced entanglement transition to analyze the interplay and competition of processes that generate and destroy entanglement in a one-dimensional quantum spin chain evolving under a locally noisy and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-07 T. Boorman , M. Szyniszewski , H. Schomerus , A. Romito

Monitored random circuits, consisting of alternating layers of entangling two-qubit gates and projective single-qubit measurements applied to some fraction $p$ of the qubits, have been a topic of recent interest. In particular, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-02 Yariv Yanay , Brian Swingle , Charles Tahan

The transfer of quantum information between many-qubit states is a subject of fundamental importance in quantum science and technology. We consider entanglement swapping in critical quantum spin chains, where the entanglement between the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-28 Masahiro Hoshino , Masaki Oshikawa , Yuto Ashida