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We study entanglement dynamics in hybrid $\mathbb{Z}_2$-symmetric quantum automaton circuits subject to local composite measurements. We show that there exists an entanglement phase transition from a volume law phase to a critical phase by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-04 Yiqiu Han , Xiao Chen

In recent years, quantum circuits consisting of unitary gates and projective measurements have become valuable tools for stimulating or preparing quantum many-body states with non-trivial properties. Here, we introduce and examine a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-22 Hui Yu , Jiangping Hu

We study the level-spacing statistics in the entanglement spectrum of output states of random universal quantum circuits where qubits are subject to a finite probability of projection to the computational basis at each time step. We…

Long-range entangled states are vital for quantum information processing and quantum metrology. Preparing such states by combining measurements with unitary gates opened new possibilities for efficient protocols with finite-depth quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-07 Iosifina Angelidi , Marcin Szyniszewski , Arijeet Pal

Measurements can drive quantum many-body systems into nontrivial steady states and induce interesting dynamical phase transitions, rendering measurement-only quantum circuits a useful platform for exploring quantum many-body phases beyond…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Bihui Zhu

Quantum circuits offer a versatile platform for simulating digital quantum dynamics and uncovering novel states of non-equilibrium quantum matter. One principal example are measurement-induced phase transitions arising from non-unitary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-10 Kai Klocke , Daniel Simm , Guo-Yi Zhu , Simon Trebst , Michael Buchhold

We study a class of (1+1)D symmetric random quantum circuits with two competing types of measurements in addition to random unitary dynamics. The circuit exhibits a rich phase diagram involving robust symmetry-protected topological (SPT),…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-03 Ali Lavasani , Yahya Alavirad , Maissam Barkeshli

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

We study the entanglement dynamics in a generic quantum automaton circuit subjected to projective measurements. We design an efficient algorithm which not only allows us to perform large scale simulation for the R\'enyi entropy but also…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-07 Jason Iaconis , Andrew Lucas , Xiao Chen

Ground states of spin lattices can serve as a resource for measurement-based quantum computation. Ideally, the ability to perform quantum gates via measurements on such states would be insensitive to small variations in the Hamiltonian.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-06-20 Dominic V. Else , Ilai Schwarz , Stephen D. Bartlett , Andrew C. Doherty

Monitored quantum circuits host a rich variety of exotic non-equilibrium phases. Among the most representative examples are measurement-induced phase transitions between distinct area-law entangled states. However, because these transitions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-07 Hui Yu , Jiangping Hu , Shi-Xin Zhang

We identify a phase transition between two kinds of volume-law entangled phases in non-local but few-body unitary dynamics with local projective measurements. In one phase, a finite fraction of the system belongs to a fully-entangled state,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-08 Sagar Vijay

Monitored quantum dynamics reveal quantum state trajectories which exhibit a rich phenomenology of entanglement structures, including a transition from a weakly-monitored volume law entangled phase to a strongly-monitored area law phase.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-03-28 Yaodong Li , Sagar Vijay , Matthew P. A. Fisher

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

Recently a new class of quantum phases of matter: symmetry protected topological states, such as topological insulators, attracted much attention. In presence of interactions, group cohomology provides a classification of these [X. Chen et…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-04-05 Andrej Mesaros , Ying Ran

We define an ensemble of random Clifford quantum circuits whose output state undergoes an entanglement phase transition between two volume-law phases as a function of measurement rate. Our setup maps exactly the output state to the ground…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-12-06 Jeremy Côté , Stefanos Kourtis

The presence of quantum noises inherent to real physical systems can strongly impact the physics in hybrid quantum circuits with local random unitaries and mid-circuit measurements. The quantum noises with a size-independent occurring…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-04 Shuo Liu , Ming-Rui Li , Shi-Xin Zhang , Shao-Kai Jian , Hong Yao

Entanglement phase transitions in hybrid quantum circuits describe individual quantum trajectories rather than the measurement-averaged ensemble, despite the fact that results of measurements are not conventionally used for feedback. Here,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-24 Michael Kolodrubetz

Quantum entanglement offers powerful opportunities for enhancing measurement sensitivity beyond classical limits, with optical atomic clocks serving as a leading platform for such advances. This chapter introduces the principles of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-04 Raphael Kaubruegger , Adam M. Kaufman

We propose a method to prepare entangled states and implement quantum computation with atoms in optical cavities. The internal state of the atoms are entangled by a measurement of the phase of light transmitted through the cavity. By…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Anders S. Sorensen , Klaus Molmer