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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,…

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While the structure of entangled quantum states is relatively well understood, the characterization of entangled measurements, especially in multipartite and high-dimensional settings, remains far less developed. In this work, we introduce…

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Quantum error correction requires accurate and efficient decoding to optimally suppress errors in the encoded information. For concatenated codes, where one code is embedded within another, optimal decoding can be achieved using a…

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Monitored quantum circuits allow for unprecedented dynamical control of many-body entanglement. Here we show that random, measurement-only circuits, implementing the competition of bond and plaquette couplings of the Kitaev honeycomb model,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-16 Guo-Yi Zhu , Nathanan Tantivasadakarn , Simon Trebst

Discovering quantum orders in mixed many-body systems is an ongoing issue. Very recently, the notion of an intrinsic mixed state topologically-ordered (IMTO) state was proposed. As a concrete example, we observe the emergence of IMTO by…

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Quantum processes of inherent dynamical nature, such as quantum walks (QWs), defy a description in terms of an equilibrium statistical physics ensemble. Up to now, it has remained a key challenge to identify general principles behind the…

Competition between unitary dynamics that scrambles quantum information non-locally and local measurements that probe and collapse the quantum state can result in a measurement-induced entanglement phase transition. Here we study this…

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Variational quantum algorithms (VQAs), which classically optimize a parametrized quantum circuit to solve a computational task, promise to advance our understanding of quantum many-body systems and improve machine learning algorithms using…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-09 Roeland Wiersema , Cunlu Zhou , Juan Felipe Carrasquilla , Yong Baek Kim

Topological stabilizer codes, such as the toric and surface codes, are leading candidates for fault-tolerant quantum computation. While their decodability under stochastic noise has been extensively studied, the effects of coherent errors,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-13 Zhou Yang , Andreas W. W. Ludwig , Chao-Ming Jian

We introduce a general approach to realize quantum states with holographic entanglement structure via monitored dynamics. Starting from random unitary circuits in $1+1$ dimensions, we introduce measurements with a spatiotemporally-modulated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-30 Aditya Cowsik , Matteo Ippoliti , Xiao-Liang Qi

We study the entanglement dynamics in a generic quantum automaton circuit subjected to projective measurements. We design an efficient algorithm which not only allows us to perform large scale simulation for the R\'enyi entropy but also…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-07 Jason Iaconis , Andrew Lucas , Xiao Chen

We propose a protocol to tailor dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs) by double-mode squeezing onto the initial state in the XY chain. The effect of squeezing depends critically on the system's symmetry and parameters. When the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Kaiyuan Cao , Haodong Wang , Xiang-Ping Jiang , Shu chen , Jian Wang

We incorporate active and passive quantum error-correcting techniques to protect a set of optical information modes of a continuous-variable quantum information system. Our method uses ancilla modes, entangled modes, and gauge modes (modes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-28 Mark M. Wilde , Todd A. Brun

Recent theoretical work has shown that the competition between coherent unitary dynamics and stochastic measurements, performed by the environment, along wavefunction trajectories can give rise to transitions in the entanglement scaling. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-01 Thomas Botzung , Sebastian Diehl , Markus Müller

Monitored quantum circuits in which entangling unitary dynamics compete with projective local measurements can host measurement-induced phase transitions witnessed by entanglement measures at late times. Adding feedback conditioned on the…

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We introduce a class of hybrid quantum circuits, with random unitaries and projective measurements, which host long-range order in the area law entanglement phase of the steady state. Our primary example is circuits with unitaries…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-06-22 Shengqi Sang , Timothy H. Hsieh

Consider a rectangular grid of qubits in 2D with single-qubit and nearest-neighbor two-qubit operations subject to local stochastic Pauli noise. At different length scales, this setup describes both a single quantum computing device with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Dylan Harley , Robert Koenig

We extend a recently defined measure of symmetry breaking, the entanglement asymmetry, to higher-form symmetries. In particular, we focus on Abelian topological order in two dimensions, which spontaneously breaks a 1-form symmetry. Using…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-17 Amanda Gatto Lamas , Jacopo Gliozzi , Taylor L. Hughes

Quantum error correction is an important ingredient for scalable quantum computing. Stabilizer codes are one of the most promising and straightforward ways to correct quantum errors, are convenient for logical operations, and improve…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-07 Ilya. A. Simakov , Ilya. S. Besedin

Continuously monitoring the environment of a quantum many-body system reduces the entropy of (purifies) the reduced density matrix of the system, conditional on the outcomes of the measurements. We show that, for mixed initial states, a…

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