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Quantum systems subject to random unitary evolution and measurements at random points in spacetime exhibit entanglement phase transitions which depend on the frequency of these measurements. Past work has experimentally observed…

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Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2014-11-11 Maksym Serbyn , Z. Papić , Dmitry A. Abanin

We study a quantum quench in the Bose-Hubbard model where the tunneling rate $J$ is suddenly switched from zero to a finite value in the Mott regime. In order to solve the many-body quantum dynamics far from equlibrium, we consider the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-04 K. V. Krutitsky , P. Navez , F. Queisser , R. Schützhold

We derive in detail several universal features in the time evolution of entanglement entropy and other nonlocal observables in quenched holographic systems. The quenches are such that a spatially uniform density of energy is injected at an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-03-26 Hong Liu , S. Josephine Suh

We introduce a family of hybrid quantum circuits involving unitary gates and projective measurements that display a measurement-induced phase transition. Remarkably, the volume-law phase featuring logarithmic entanglement growth for certain…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-09 Vikram Ravindranath , Hanchen Liu , Xiao Chen

Measurement-driven transitions between extensive and sub-extensive scaling of the entanglement entropy receive interest as they illuminate the intricate physics of thermalization and control in open interacting quantum systems. Whilst this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-11-25 Marcin Szyniszewski , Alessandro Romito , Henning Schomerus

Measurement plays a crucial role in a quantum system beyond just learning about the system state: it changes the post-measurement state and hence influences the subsequent time evolution; further, measurement can even create entanglement in…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-04-09 Huy Nguyen , Yu-Xin Wang , Jacob M. Taylor

Relativistic causality has dramatic consequences on the measurability of nonlocal variables and poses the fundamental question of whether it is physically meaningful to speak about the value of nonlocal variables at a particular time.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-20 S. R. Clark , A. J. Connor , D. Jaksch , S. Popescu

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

Nascent quantum computers motivate the exploration of quantum many-body systems in nontraditional scenarios. For example, it has become natural to explore the dynamics of systems evolving under both unitary evolution and measurement. Such…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-03-15 Nicholas O'Dea , Alan Morningstar , Sarang Gopalakrishnan , Vedika Khemani

Local measurements cannot create entanglement, but they can convert short-range entanglement to long-range entanglement, as in quantum teleportation. This phenomenon of measurement-induced entanglement (MIE) has been widely discussed in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-10 Yifan Zhang , Sarang Gopalakrishnan

The time evolution of the entanglement entropy in non-equilibrium quantum systems provides crucial information about the structure of the time-dependent state. For quantum quench protocols, by combining a quasiparticle picture for the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-03-30 Vincenzo Alba , Pasquale Calabrese

Entanglement in quantum many-body systems can exhibit universal phenomena governed by long-distance properties. We study universality and phase transitions of the entanglement inherent to open many-body systems, namely, the entanglement…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-09-06 Yuto Ashida , Shunsuke Furukawa , Masaki Oshikawa

In this work, we explore the effects of a quantum quench on the entanglement measures of a two-body coupled oscillator system having quartic interaction. We use the invariant operator method, under a perturbative framework, for computing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-08 Sayantan Choudhury , Rakshit Mandish Gharat , Saptarshi Mandal , Nilesh Pandey , Abhishek Roy , Partha Sarker

In this paper we consider the quantum phase transition in the Ising model in the presence of a transverse field in one, two and three dimensions from a multi-partite entanglement point of view. Using \emph{exact} numerical solutions, we are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-12-21 Afshin Montakhab , Ali Asadian

The competition between scrambling unitary evolution and projective measurements leads to a phase transition in the dynamics of quantum entanglement. Here, we demonstrate that the nature of this transition is fundamentally altered by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-25 Maxwell Block , Yimu Bao , Soonwon Choi , Ehud Altman , Norman Yao

Measurements are essential for the processing and protection of information in quantum computers. They can also induce long-range entanglement between unmeasured qubits. However, when post-measurement states depend on many non-deterministic…

Environment-induced localization transitions (LT) occur when a small quantum system interacts with a bath of harmonic oscillators. At equilibrium, LTs are accompanied by an entropy change, signaling the loss of coherence. Despite extensive…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-26 Zhanyu Ma , Cheolhee Han , Yigal Meir , Eran Sela

We investigate the non-equilibrium behavior of a fully-connected (or all-to-all coupled) Bose-Hubbard model after a Mott to superfluid quench, in the limit of large boson densities and for an arbitrary number $V$ of lattice sites, with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-06 Andrea Pizzi , Fabrizio Dolcini , Karyn Le Hur

It is well known that unitary evolution tends to increase entanglement, whereas continuous monitoring counteracts this growth by pinning the wavefunction trajectories to the eigenstates of the measurement operators. In this work, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-09 Pallabi Chatterjee , Ranjan Modak