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We present random quantum circuit models for non-unitary quantum dynamics of free fermions in one spatial dimension. Numerical simulations reveal that the dynamics tends towards steady states with logarithmic violations of the entanglement…

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We analyze the quantum trajectory dynamics of free fermions subject to continuous monitoring. For weak monitoring, we identify a novel dynamical regime of subextensive entanglement growth, reminiscent of a critical phase with an emergent…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-07-06 Ori Alberton , Michael Buchhold , Sebastian Diehl

We investigate the entanglement structure and wave function characteristics of continuously monitored free fermions with U$(1)$-symmetry in two spatial dimensions (2D). By deriving the exact fermion replica-quantum master equation, we line…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-15 K. Chahine , M. Buchhold

We investigate the interplay between unitary and non-unitary driven many-body dynamics in (1+1)-dimensional quantum critical systems described by conformal field theory (CFT). By formulating a coherent state approach, we demonstrate that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-29 Bastien Lapierre , Pietro Pelliconi , Shinsei Ryu , Julian Sonner

We explore, both analytically and numerically, the quantum dynamics of a many-body free-fermion system subjected to local density measurements. We begin by extending the mapping to the nonlinear sigma-model (NLSM) field theory for the case…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-04-22 Igor Poboiko , Alexander D. Mirlin

Exactly solving a spinless fermionic system in two and three dimensions, we investigate the scaling behavior of the block entropy in critical and non-critical phases. The scaling of the block entropy crucially depends on the nature of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-04-25 Weifei Li , Letian Ding , Rong Yu , Tommaso Roscilde , Stephan Haas

A formidable perspective in understanding quantum criticality of a given many-body system is through its entanglement contents. Until now, most progress are only limited to the disorder-free case. Here, we develop an efficient scheme to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-12-01 Qicheng Tang , W. Zhu

Non-unitary evolution can give rise to novel steady states classified by their entanglement properties. In this work, we aim to understand its interplay with long-range hopping that decays with $r^{-\alpha}$ in free-fermion systems. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-06-01 Pengfei Zhang , Chunxiao Liu , Shao-Kai Jian , Xiao Chen

Characterizing universal entanglement features in higher-dimensional quantum matter is a central goal of quantum information science and condensed matter physics. While the subleading corner terms in two-dimensional quantum systems…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-30 Chang-Yu Shen , Shuai Yin , Zi-Xiang Li

Scrambling of quantum information in unitary evolution can be hindered due to measurements and localization, which pin quantum mechanical wavefunctions in real space suppressing entanglement in the steady state. In monitored free-fermionic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-24 Marcin Szyniszewski , Oliver Lunt , Arijeet Pal

By applying complementary analytic and numerical methods, we investigate the dynamics of spin-$1/2$ XXZ models with variable-range interactions in arbitrary dimensions. The dynamics we consider is initiated from uncorrelated states that are…

We study free fermion systems under adaptive quantum dynamics consisting of unitary gates and projective measurements followed by corrective unitary operations. We further introduce a classical flag for each site, allowing for an active or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-09 Vikram Ravindranath , Zhi-Cheng Yang , Xiao Chen

We consider the effect of projective measurements on the quench dynamics of the bipartite entanglement entropy in one dimensional free fermionic systems. In our protocol, we consider projective measurements of a $U(1)$ conserved charge, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-15 Riccardo Travaglino , Colin Rylands , Pasquale Calabrese

We study the entanglement entropy of the quantum trajectories of a free fermion chain under continuous monitoring of local occupation numbers. We propose a simple theory for entanglement entropy evolution from disentangled and highly…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-08-28 Xiangyu Cao , Antoine Tilloy , Andrea De Luca

We study the universal scaling behavior of the entanglement entropy of critical theories in $2+1$ dimensions. We specially consider two fermionic scale-invariant models, free massless Dirac fermions and a model of fermions with quadratic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-02-24 Xiao Chen , Gil Young Cho , Thomas Faulkner , Eduardo Fradkin

One-dimensional massive quantum particles (or 1+1-dimensional random walks) with short-ranged multi-particle interactions are studied by exact renormalization group methods. With repulsive pair forces, such particles are known to scale as…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 M. Lassig

Recently, there has been interest in the dynamics of monitored quantum systems using linear jump operators related to the creation or annihilation of particles. Here, we study the dynamics of the entanglement entropy under quantum jumps…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-02-28 Rafael D. Soares , Youenn Le Gal , Marco Schirò

The $1+1$ dimensional $\mathbb Z_2$ gauge theory is the simplest model that allows for quantum simulation to probe the fundamental aspects of a gauge theory coupled with dynamical fermions. To reliably benchmark such a system, it is crucial…

We study the critical behavior and the ground-state entanglement of a large class of $\mathrm{su}(1|1)$ supersymmetric spin chains with a general (not necessarily monotonic) dispersion relation. We show that this class includes several…

We employ $(1 + 1)$-dimensional quantum cellular automata to study the evolution of entanglement and coherence near criticality in quantum systems that display non-equilibrium steady-state phase transitions. This construction permits direct…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-15 Edward Gillman , Federico Carollo , Igor Lesanovsky
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