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We propose a method to prepare entangled states and implement quantum computation with atoms in optical cavities. The internal state of the atoms are entangled by a measurement of the phase of light transmitted through the cavity. By…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Anders S. Sorensen , Klaus Molmer

Quantum entanglement is affected by unitary evolution, which spreads the entanglement through the whole system, and also by measurements, which usually tends to disentangle subsystems from the rest. Their competition has been known to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-24 Haifeng Tang , Hong-Yi Wang , Zhong Wang , Xiao-Liang Qi

In this work, we investigate the Kitaev honeycomb model employing the recently developed Clifford Circuits Augmented Matrix Product States (CAMPS) method. While the model in the gapped phase is known to reduce to the toric code model -…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-26 Xiang Li , Xiangjian Qian , Mingpu Qin

Competition among repetitive measurements of noncommuting observables and unitary dynamics can give rise to a wide variety of entanglement phases. Here, we propose a general framework based on Lyapunov analysis to characterize topological…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-24 Hisanori Oshima , Ken Mochizuki , Ryusuke Hamazaki , Yohei Fuji

Given an output wavefunction of a monitored quantum circuit consisting of both unitary gates and projective measurements, we ask whether two complementary subsystems are entangled or not. For Clifford circuits, we find that this question…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-21 Beni Yoshida

We present an augmented parton mean-field theory which (i) reproduces the $exact$ ground state, spectrum, and dynamics of the quantum spin liquid phase of Kitaev's honeycomb model; and (ii) is amenable to the inclusion of integrability…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-05-03 Johannes Knolle , Subhro Bhattacharjee , Roderich Moessner

Quantum circuit complexity is a fundamental concept whose importance permeates quantum information, computation, many-body physics and high-energy physics. While extensively studied in closed systems, its characterization and behaviors in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-28 Zhenyu Du , Zi-Wen Liu , Xiongfeng Ma

The $S=1/2$ Kitaev honeycomb model has attracted significant attention as an exactly solvable example with a quantum spin liquid ground state. In a properly oriented external magnetic field, chiral Majorana edge modes associated with a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-03-23 Pedro M. Cônsoli , Eric C. Andrade

Continuous observation of a quantum system yields a measurement record that faithfully reproduces the classically predicted trajectory provided that the measurement is sufficiently strong to localize the state in phase space but weak enough…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Shohini Ghose , Paul Alsing , Ivan Deutsch , Tanmoy Bhattacharya , Salman Habib , Kurt Jacobs

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

In the Kitaev honeycomb model, the quantum spin fractionalizes into itinerant Majorana and gauge flux spontaneously upon cooling, leading to rich experimental ramifications at finite temperature and an upsurge of research interest. In this…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-10-07 Han Li , Dai-Wei Qu , Hao-Kai Zhang , Yi-Zhen Jia , Shou-Shu Gong , Yang Qi , Wei Li

We investigate the distribution of entanglement entropy in hybrid quantum circuits consisting of random unitary gates and local measurements applied at a finite rate. We demonstrate that higher moments of the entanglement entropy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Jeonghyeok Park , Hyukjoon Kwon , Hyunseok Jeong

We introduce and explore a one-dimensional "hybrid" quantum circuit model consisting of both unitary gates and projective measurements. While the unitary gates are drawn from a random distribution and act uniformly in the circuit, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-21 Yaodong Li , Xiao Chen , Matthew P. A. Fisher

The Kitaev honeycomb model provides a paradigmatic example of an exactly solvable quantum spin liquid (QSL), in which the spin degrees of freedom fractionalize into itinerant Majorana fermions coupled to a static background of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-06-28 Vitor Dantas , Wen-Han Kao , Natalia B. Perkins

We develop a quantum simulation-based approach for studying properties of strongly correlated magnetic materials at increasing scale. We consider a paradigmatic example of a quantum spin liquid (QSL) state hosted by the honeycomb Kitaev…

We investigate the topological-to-non-topological quantum phase transitions (QPTs) occurring in the Kitaev code under local perturbations in the form of local magnetic field and spin-spin interactions of the Ising-type using fidelity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Harikrishnan K J , Amit Kumar Pal

Monitored quantum circuits have attracted significant interest as an example of synthetic quantum matter, intrinsically defined by their quantum information content. Here, we propose a multipartite entanglement perspective on monitored…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 Arnau Lira-Solanilla , Xhek Turkeshi , Silvia Pappalardi

The Kitaev spin liquid, stabilized as the ground state of the Kitaev honeycomb model, is a paradigmatic example of a topological $\mathbb{Z}_2$ quantum spin liquid. The fate of the Kitaev spin liquid in presence of an external magnetic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-04 Will Holdhusen , Daniel Huerga , Gerardo Ortiz

We study localization properties of continuously monitored dynamics and associated measurement-induced phase transitions in disordered quantum many-body systems on the basis of the quantum trajectory approach. By calculating the fidelity…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-06-09 Kazuki Yamamoto , Ryusuke Hamazaki

Entanglement exhibits universal behavior near the ground-state critical point where correlations are long-ranged and the thermodynamic entropy is vanishing. On the other hand, a quantum quench imparts extensive energy and results in a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-02-11 Sanku Paul , Paraj Titum , Mohammad F. Maghrebi