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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

Much has been learned about universal properties of the eigenstate entanglement entropy for one-dimensional lattice models, which is described by a Hermitian Hamiltonian. While very less of it has been understood for non-Hermitian systems.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-06-25 Ranjan Modak , Bhabani Prasad Mandal

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

We calculate the hybrid entanglement entropy between coin and walker degrees of freedom in a non-unitary quantum walk. The model possesses a joint parity and time-reversal symmetry or PT-symmetry and supports topological phases when this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-08 Gene M. M. Itable , Francis N. C. Paraan

Monitored quantum systems undergo Measurement-induced Phase Transitions (MiPTs) stemming from the interplay between measurements and unitary dynamics. When the detector readout is post-selected to match a given value, the dynamics is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-22 Chun Y. Leung , Dganit Meidan , Alessandro Romito

The interplay of unitary evolution and local measurements in many-body systems gives rise to a stochastic state evolution and to measurement-induced phase transitions in the pure state entanglement. In realistic settings, however, this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-08-23 B. Ladewig , S. Diehl , M. Buchhold

Measurement-induced entanglement phase transitions (MIET) highlight how local measurements drive quantum systems between area-law and volume-law entangled states. This review surveys MIET in free fermion models, focusing on how unitary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-10 Han-Ze Li , Jian-Xin Zhong , Xue-Jia Yu

Dissipation generally leads to the decoherence of a quantum state. In contrast, numerous recent proposals have illustrated that dissipation can also be tailored to stabilize many-body entangled quantum states. While the focus of these works…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-31 Mathias Van Regemortel , Ze-Pei Cian , Alireza Seif , Hossein Dehghani , Mohammad Hafezi

We study an entanglement phase transition in a class of chaotic non-Hermitian spin chains whose spin-spin coupling terms commute with the non-Hermitian contributions. Two representative models are investigated: the transverse-field Ising…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 Zhen-Tao Zhang , Feng Mei

Topological insulators and topological superconductors display various topological phases that are characterized by different Chern numbers or by gapless edge states. In this work we show that various quantum information methods such as the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-18 T. P. Oliveira , P. D. Sacramento

The scaling law of entanglement entropy could undergo qualitative changes during the nonunitary evolution of a quantum many-body system. In this work, we uncover such entanglement phase transitions in one-dimensional non-Hermitian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-18 Longwen Zhou

Dissipation in open systems enriches the possible symmetries of the Hamiltonians beyond the Hermitian framework allowing the possibility of novel non-Hermitian topological phases, which exhibit long-living end states that are protected…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-05 Wojciech Brzezicki , Matti Silveri , Marcin Płodzień , Francesco Massel , Timo Hyart

We study the level-spacing statistics in the entanglement spectrum of output states of random universal quantum circuits where qubits are subject to a finite probability of projection to the computational basis at each time step. We…

Non-Hermiticity enriches the contents of topological classification of matter including exceptional points, bulk-edge correspondence and skin effect. Gain and loss can be described by imaginary diagonal elements in Hamiltonians and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 X. L. Zhao , L. B. Chen , L. B. Fu , X. X. Yi

We study the relationship between bipartite entanglement, subsystem particle number and topology in a half-filled free fermion system. It is proposed that the spin-projected particle numbers can distinguish the quantum spin Hall state from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-25 Y. F. Zhang , L. Sheng , R. Shen , Rui Wang , D. Y. Xing

It is well known that unitary evolution tends to increase entanglement, whereas continuous monitoring counteracts this growth by pinning the wavefunction trajectories to the eigenstates of the measurement operators. In this work, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-09 Pallabi Chatterjee , Ranjan Modak

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

This study investigates the entanglement properties of disordered free fermion systems undergoing an Anderson phase transition from a delocalized to a localized phase. The entanglement entropy is employed to quantify the degree of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-09-26 Mohammad Pouranvari

The Anderson localization transition is one of the most well studied examples of a zero temperature quantum phase transition. On the other hand, many open questions remain about the phenomenology of disordered systems driven far out of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-09-11 Michael J. Gullans , David A. Huse

We study the asymptotic bipartite entanglement entropy of the quantum trajectories of a free-fermionic system, when subject to a continuous nonlocal monitoring. The measurements are described by Gaussian-preserving two-point operators,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-20 Angelo Russomanno , Giulia Piccitto , Davide Rossini