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Non-equilibrium dynamics of many-body quantum systems under the effect of measurement protocols is attracting an increasing amount of attention. It has been recently revealed that measurements may induce an abrupt change in the scaling-law…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-03-23 Michele Coppola , Emanuele Tirrito , Dragi Karevski , Mario Collura

A quantum system subject to continuous measurement and post-selection evolves according to a non-Hermitian Hamiltonian. We show that, as one increases the rate of post-selection, this non-Hermitian Hamiltonian undergoes a spectral phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-04 Sarang Gopalakrishnan , Michael J. Gullans

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 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

We derive field theory descriptions for measurement-induced phase transitions in free fermion systems. We focus on a multi-flavor Majorana chain, undergoing Hamiltonian evolution with continuous monitoring of local fermion parity operators.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-12-11 Michele Fava , Lorenzo Piroli , Tobias Swann , Denis Bernard , Adam Nahum

Although the homotopy-knot theory has been utilized to implement effective topological classification for non-Hermitian systems, the physical implications underlying distinct knot topologies remain ambiguous and are rarely addressed. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-27 Guoying Zhang , Li Wang , Shu Chen

We study one-dimensional disordered fermions that either undergo metal-insulator transitions or topological phase transitions to become trivial Anderson insulators. We focus on using entanglement to elucidate how the spatial, momentum, and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2014-10-01 Ian Mondragon-Shem , Taylor L. Hughes

A theory of the measurement-induced entanglement phase transition for free-fermion models in $d>1$ dimensions is developed. The critical point separates a gapless phase with $\ell^{d-1} \ln \ell$ scaling of the second cumulant of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-19 Igor Poboiko , Igor V. Gornyi , Alexander D. Mirlin

The interplay between non-trivial band topology and strong electronic correlations is a central challenge in modern condensed matter physics. We investigate this competition on a two-leg ladder model with a p-wave-like hybridisation between…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-13 Aminul Hussain , Nisa Ara , Rudranil Basu , Sudeshna Sen

Recently there has been an intense effort to understand measurement induced transitions, but we still lack a good understanding of non-Markovian effects on these phenomena. To that end, we consider two coupled chains of free fermions, one…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-18 Mikheil Tsitsishvili , Dario Poletti , Marcello Dalmonte , Giuliano Chiriacò

Repeated measurements can induce entanglement phase transitions in the dynamics of quantum systems. Interacting models, both chaotic and integrable, generically show a stable volume-law entangled phase at low measurement rates which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-21 Luca Lumia , Emanuele Tirrito , Rosario Fazio , Mario Collura

The competition between unitary time-evolution and quantum measurements could induce phase transitions in the entanglement characteristics of quantum many-body dynamics. In this work, we reveal such entanglement transitions in the context…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-24 Longwen Zhou

Measurement-driven transitions between extensive and sub-extensive scaling of the entanglement entropy receive interest as they illuminate the intricate physics of thermalization and control in open interacting quantum systems. Whilst this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-11-25 Marcin Szyniszewski , Alessandro Romito , Henning Schomerus

The effect of interactions on topological insulators and superconductors remains, to a large extent, an open problem. Here, we describe a framework for classifying phases of one-dimensional interacting fermions, focusing on spinless…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-03-20 Ari M. Turner , Frank Pollmann , Erez Berg

Measurement-induced phase transitions are nonequilibrium transitions between phases characterized by distinct entanglement scaling behaviors, driven by the competition between unitary dynamics and measurements. Despite recent numerical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-08 Yunxiang Liao , Max Matheussen , Xinghai Zhang

We study dynamical phase transitions occurring in the stationary state of the dynamics of integrable many-body non-hermitian Hamiltonians, which can be either realized as a no-click limit of a stochastic Schr\"{o}dinger equation or using…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-24 Caterina Zerba , Alessandro Silva

These lecture notes explain the classification of some simple fermionic topological phases of matter in a pedestrian manner, with an aim to be maximally pedagogical = doing things in excruciating detail. We focus on a many-body perspective,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-07 Frank Schindler

We consider the dynamics of the non-Hermitian Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model arising as the no-click limit of a continuously monitored free fermion chain where particles and holes are measured on two sublattices. The model has…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-05-31 Youenn Le Gal , Xhek Turkeshi , Marco Schirò

Symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phases are short-range entangled phases of matter with a non-local order parameter which are preserved under a local symmetry group. Here, by using unsupervised learning algorithm, namely the diffusion…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-11-18 En-Jui Kuo , Hossein Dehghani

Discrete quantum trajectories of systems under random unitary gates and projective measurements have been shown to feature transitions in the entanglement scaling that are not encoded in the density matrix. In this paper, we study the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-09-24 Nicolai Lang , Hans Peter Büchler