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Interspersing unitary dynamics with local measurements results in measurement-induced phases and transitions in many-body quantum systems. When the evolution is driven by a local Hamiltonian, two types of transitions have been observed,…

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Quantum networks (QNs) have been predominantly driven by discrete-variable (DV) architectures. Yet, optical platforms naturally generate Gaussian states--the common states of continuous-variable (CV) systems, making CV-based QNs an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 Yaqi Zhao , Kan He , Yongtao Zhang , Jinchuan Hou , Jianxi Gao , Shlomo Havlin , Xiangyi Meng

Generic many-body systems coupled to an environment lose their quantum entanglement due to decoherence and evolve to a mixed state with only classical correlations. Here, we show that measurements can stabilize quantum entanglement within…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-07 Zack Weinstein , Yimu Bao , Ehud Altman

We study two continuous variable systems (or two harmonic oscillators) and investigate their entanglement evolution under the influence of non-Markovian thermal environments. The continuous variable systems could be two modes of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Kuan-Liang Liu , Hsi-Sheng Goan

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

In this work, we prove the generation of genuine tripartite continuous-variable entanglement in the unitary dynamics of the simultaneous measurement process of position and momentum observables raised by Arthurs and Kelly, considering a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-25 J. A. Mendoza-Fierro , L. M. Arévalo Aguilar

The intensely studied measurement-induced entanglement phase transition has become a hallmark of non-unitary quantum many-body dynamics. Usually, such a transition only shows up at the level of each individual quantum trajectory, and is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-07-26 Vikram Ravindranath , Yiqiu Han , Zhi-Cheng Yang , Xiao Chen

The Gaussian state description of continuous variables is adapted to describe the quantum interaction between macroscopic atomic samples and continuous-wave light beams. The formalism is very efficient: a non-linear differential equation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. B. Madsen , K. Mølmer

Repeated projective measurements in unitary circuits can lead to an entanglement phase transition as the measurement rate is tuned. In this work, we consider a different setting in which the projective measurements are replaced by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-25 Raúl Morral-Yepes , Adam Smith , S. L. Sondhi , Frank Pollmann

Gaussian distribution of a quantum state with continuous spectrum is known to maximize the Shannon entropy at a fixed variance. Applying it to a pair of canonically conjugate quantum observables $\hat x$ and $\hat p$, quantum entropic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-21 Wonmin Son

We theoretically derive the probability densities of the entanglement measures of a pure non-ergodic many-body state, represented in a bipartite product basis and with its reduced density matrix described by a generalized, multi-parametric…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-11 Devanshu Shekhar , Pragya Shukla

Bipartite entanglement entropy is one of the most useful characterizations of universal properties in a many-body quantum system. Far from equilibrium, there exist two highly effective theories describing its dynamics -- the quasiparticle…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-20 Shachar Fraenkel , Colin Rylands

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…

A gauge-invariant C*-system is obtained as the fixed point subalgebra of the infinite tensor product of full matrix algebras under the tensor product unitary action of a compact group. In the paper, thermodynamics is studied on such systems…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2009-11-10 N. Akiho , F. Hiai , D. Petz

Continuous-Variable (CV) devices are a promising platform for demonstrating large-scale quantum information protocols. In this framework, we define a general quantum computational model based on a CV hardware. It consists of vacuum input…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-06 Tom Douce , Damian Markham , Elham Kashefi , Peter van Loock , Giulia Ferrini

Entanglement in continuous-variable Gaussian systems is a key resource, and common reservoirs can both suppress and generate correlations. Existing work focused on pre-entangled states or Markovian baths, leaving open whether separable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-18 Austen Couvertier , Ting Yu

We study the entanglement distillation in continuous variable systems when a photon replacement protocol is employed. A cascaded protocol is studied and we find that the resultant entanglement increases by increasing the number of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 Yasamin Mardani , Milad Ghadimi , Ali Shafiei , Mehdi Abdi

The measurement based, or one-way, model of quantum computation for continuous variables uses a highly entangled state called a cluster state to accomplish the task of computing. Cluster states that are universal for computation are a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-11 Darren W. Moore

We investigate the connection between entanglement and non-locality between continuous-variable bipartite Gaussian states. The investigation initiates with formulating non-locality by using the phase-space Wigner representation of Bell's…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-31 Souvik Agasti

Dual-unitary circuits are a class of locally-interacting quantum many-body systems displaying unitary dynamics also when the roles of space and time are exchanged. These systems have recently emerged as a remarkable framework where certain…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-07-04 Alessandro Foligno , Bruno Bertini