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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

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 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

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

Entanglement is a key quantum phenomena and understanding transitions between phases of matter with different entanglement properties are an interesting probe of quantum mechanics. We numerically study a model of a 2D tensor network…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-08-06 Ryan Levy , Bryan K. Clark

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 investigate the distribution of entanglement entropy in hybrid quantum circuits consisting of random unitary gates and local measurements applied at a finite rate. We demonstrate that higher moments of the entanglement entropy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Jeonghyeok Park , Hyukjoon Kwon , Hyunseok Jeong

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

An extension to computational mechanics complexity measure is proposed in order to tackle quantum states complexity quantification. The method is applicable to any $n-$partite state of qudits through some simple modifications. A Werner…

Computational Physics · Physics 2011-10-28 Yuri Campbell , José Roberto Castilho Piqueira

We prepare two dimensional states generated by shallow circuits composed of (1) one layer of two-qubit CZ gate or (2) a few layers of two-qubit random Clifford gate. After measuring all of the bulk qubits, we study the entanglement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-08 Hanchen Liu , Tianci Zhou , Xiao Chen

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

Local measurements in quantum systems are projective operations which act to counteract the spread of quantum entanglement. Recent work has shown that local, random measurements applied to a generic volume-law entanglement generating…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-07-14 Josef Willsher , Shu-Wei Liu , Roderich Moessner , Johannes Knolle

Starting from a state of low quantum entanglement, local unitary time evolution increases the entanglement of a quantum many-body system. In contrast, local projective measurements disentangle degrees of freedom and decrease entanglement.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-07-24 Amos Chan , Rahul M. Nandkishore , Michael Pretko , Graeme Smith

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

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

We study a free fermion model where two sets of non-commuting non-projective measurements stabilize area-law entanglement scaling phases of distinct topological order. We show the presence of a topological phase transition that is of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-15 Graham Kells , Dganit Meidan , Alessandro Romito

In recent years, the presence of local potentials has significantly enriched and diversified the entanglement patterns in monitored free fermion systems. In our approach, we employ the stochastic Schr\"odinger equation to simulate a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-09 Yu-Jun Zhao , Xuyang Huang , Yi-Rui Zhang , Han-Ze Li , Jian-Xin Zhong

We present a theory of the entanglement transition tuned by measurement strength in qudit chains evolved by random unitary circuits and subject to either weak or random projective measurements. The transition can be understood as a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-03-05 Yimu Bao , Soonwon Choi , Ehud Altman

Open quantum systems have been shown to host a plethora of exotic dynamical phases. Measurement-induced entanglement phase transitions in monitored quantum systems are a striking example of this phenomena. However, naive realizations of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-21 Hossein Dehghani , Ali Lavasani , Mohammad Hafezi , Michael J. Gullans

A quantum many-body system whose dynamics includes local measurements at a nonzero rate can be in distinct dynamical phases, with differing entanglement properties. We introduce theoretical approaches to measurement-induced phase…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-04-07 Adam Nahum , Sthitadhi Roy , Brian Skinner , Jonathan Ruhman