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Despite its fully unitary dynamics, the bosonic Kitaev chain (BKC) displays key hallmarks of non-Hermitian physics including non-reciprocal transport and the non-Hermitian skin effect. Here we demonstrate another remarkable phenomena: the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-01 Gideon Lee , Tony Jin , Yu-Xin Wang , Alexander McDonald , Aashish Clerk

Measurement-induced phase transition (MIPT) describes the nonanalytical change of the entanglement entropy resulting from the interplay between measurement and unitary evolution. In this paper, we investigate the relaxation critical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Wantao Wang , Shuo Liu , Jiaqiang Li , Shi-Xin Zhang , Shuai Yin

We explore the dynamical phases of unitary Clifford circuits with variable-range interactions, coupled to a monitoring environment. We investigate two classes of models, distinguished by the action of the unitary gates, which either are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-08 Shraddha Sharma , Xhek Turkeshi , Rosario Fazio , Marcello Dalmonte

Monitored many-body systems fall broadly into two dynamical phases, ``entangling'' or ``disentangling'', separated by a transition as a function of the rate at which measurements are made on the system. Producing an analytical theory of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-09-13 Xiaozhou Feng , Brian Skinner , Adam Nahum

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

Competing measurements alone can give rise to distinct phases characterized by entanglement entropy$\unicode{x2013}$such as the volume law phase, symmetry-breaking (SB) phase, and symmetry-protected topological (SPT)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-08 Dongheng Qian , Jing Wang

Measurements profoundly impact quantum systems, and can be used to create novel states of matter out of equilibrium. We investigate the multipartite entanglement structure that emerges in hybrid quantum circuits involving unitaries and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-04 Sebastien J Avakian , T. Pereg-Barnea , William Witczak-Krempa

We study the competing effects of collective generalized measurements and interaction-induced scrambling in the dynamics of an ensemble of spin-1/2 particles at the level of quantum trajectories. This setup can be considered as analogous to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-24 Pablo M. Poggi , Manuel H. Muñoz-Arias

Entanglement transitions in quantum dynamics present a novel class of phase transitions in non-equilibrium systems. When a many-body quantum system undergoes unitary evolution interspersed with monitored random measurements, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-08 Oliver Lunt , 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

External monitoring of quantum many-body systems can give rise to a measurement-induced phase transition characterized by a change in behavior of the entanglement entropy from an area law to an unbounded growth. In this Letter, we show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-14 Alessio Paviglianiti , Alessandro Silva

Measurements can qualitatively alter correlations and entanglement emerging in gapless quantum matter. We show how a single round of measurements on gapless quantum systems can, upon rotating the measurement basis, induce non-trivial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-15 Yue Liu , Sara Murciano , David F. Mross , Jason Alicea

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

We discuss on general grounds some local indicators of entanglement, that have been proposed recently for the study and classification of quantum phase transitions. In particular, we focus on the capability of entanglement in detecting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Campos Venuti , C. Degli Esposti Boschi , G. Morandi , M. Roncaglia , A. Scaramucci

A charged entanglement entropy is a new measure which probes quantum entanglement between different charge sectors. We study symmetry protected topological (SPT) phases in 2+1 dimensional space-time by using this charged entanglement…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-05-11 Shunji Matsuura , Xueda Wen , Ling-Yan Hung , Shinsei Ryu

Projective measurement, a basic operation in quantum mechanics, can induce seemingly nonlocal effects. In this work, we analyze such effects in many-body systems by studying the non-equilibrium dynamics of weakly monitored quantum circuits,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-06-19 Shengqi Sang , Zhi Li , Timothy H. Hsieh , Beni Yoshida

We introduce and explore a one-dimensional "hybrid" quantum circuit model consisting of both unitary gates and projective measurements. While the unitary gates are drawn from a random distribution and act uniformly in the circuit, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-21 Yaodong Li , Xiao Chen , Matthew P. A. Fisher

In contrast to abstract statistical analyses in the literature, we present a concrete physical diagrammatic model of entanglement characterization and measure with its underlying discrete phase-space physics. This paper serves as a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-30 Felix A. Buot

We show that weak measurements can induce a quantum phase transition of interacting many-body systems from an ergodic thermal phase with a large entropy to a nonergodic localized phase with a small entropy, but only if the measurement…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-09-04 Marcin Szyniszewski , Alessandro Romito , Henning Schomerus

Information-theoretic phase transitions, such as the measurement-induced phase transition (MIPT), characterize the robustness of quantum dynamics to local monitoring and are naturally formulated in terms of trajectories conditioned on…