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Measurement-induced entanglement (MIE) captures how local measurements generate long-range quantum correlations and drive dynamical phase transitions in many-body systems. Yet estimating MIE experimentally remains challenging: direct…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-11 Dongheng Qian , Jing Wang

The rise of programmable quantum devices has motivated the exploration of circuit models which could realize novel physics. A promising candidate is a class of hybrid circuits, where entangling unitary dynamics compete with disentangling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-08 Stefanie Czischek , Giacomo Torlai , Sayonee Ray , Rajibul Islam , Roger G. Melko

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…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-03 Michael J. Gullans , David A. Huse

We show that applying feedback and weak measurements to a quantum system induces phase transitions beyond the dissipative ones. Feedback enables controlling essentially quantum properties of the transition, i.e., its critical exponent, as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 D. A. Ivanov , T. Yu. Ivanova , S. F. Caballero-Benitez , I. B. Mekhov

The contact process is a paradigmatic classical stochastic system displaying critical behavior even in one dimension. It features a non-equilibrium phase transition into an absorbing state that has been widely investigated and shown to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-09-11 Federico Carollo , Edward Gillman , Hendrik Weimer , Igor Lesanovsky

The discrimination of quantum states is a central problem in quantum information science and technology. Meanwhile, partial post-selection has emerged as a valuable tool for quantum state engineering. In this work, we bring these two areas…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Qipeng Qian , Christos N. Gagatsos

Quantum computing can be realized with numerous different hardware platforms and computational protocols. A highly promising approach to foster scalability is to apply a photonic platform combined with a measurement-induced quantum…

A quantum phase transition is an unequivocal signature of strongly correlated many-body physics. Signatures of such phenomena are yet to be observed in ballistic transport through quantum wires. Recent developments in quantum wires have…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-07-26 Abolfazl Bayat , Sanjeev Kumar , Michael Pepper , Sougato Bose

Entanglement is a key resource to demonstrate quantum advantage over classical strategies. Entanglement in quantum states is one of the most well-explored areas in quantum physics. However, a rigorous approach to understanding and detecting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-12 Shubhayan Sarkar

We present a general formalism for charecterizing 2-time quantum states, describing pre- and post-selected quantum systems. The most general 2-time state is characterized by a `density vector' that is independent of measurements performed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-01-30 Ralph Silva , Yelena Guryanova , Nicolas Brunner , Noah Linden , Anthony J. Short , Sandu Popescu

We prove that the results of a finite set of general quantum measurements on an arbitrary dimensional quantum system can be simulated using a polynomial (in measurements) number of hidden-variable states. In the limit of infinitely many…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-11 Borivoje Dakic , Milovan Suvakov , Tomasz Paterek , Caslav Brukner

Mixed-state phase transitions have recently attracted growing attention as a new frontier in nonequilibrium quantum matter and quantum information. In this work, we introduce the measurement-dressed imaginary-time evolution (MDITE) as a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-06 Yi-Ming Ding , Zenan Liu , Xu Tian , Zhe Wang , Yanzhang Zhu , Zheng Yan

Realisation of experiments even on small and medium-scale quantum computers requires an optimisation of several parameters to achieve high-fidelity operations. As the size of the quantum register increases, the characterisation of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-11 F. Martínez-García , D. Vodola , M. Müller

Quantum measurements and phase transitions are seemingly uncorrelated topics, but here we show that phase transitions occur in sequential quantum measurements. We find that the probability distribution of the measurement results of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-17 Wen-Long Ma , Ping Wang , Weng-Hang Leong , Ren-Bao Liu

This paper reports a novel method for supervised machine learning based on the mathematical formalism that supports quantum mechanics. The method uses projective quantum measurement as a way of building a prediction function. Specifically,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-30 Fabio A. González , Vladimir Vargas-Calderón , Herbert Vinck-Posada

In a quantum system that is bounded by past and future conditions, weak continuous monitoring forward-evolving and backward-evolving quantum states are usually carried out separately. Therefore, measured signals at a given time t cannot be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-20 Le Bin Ho

Quantum computation offers a promising new kind of information processing, where the non-classical features of quantum mechanics can be harnessed and exploited. A number of models of quantum computation exist, including the now well-studied…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-08-03 H. J. Briegel , D. E. Browne , W. Dür , R. Raussendorf , M. Van den Nest

Quantum state discrimination depicts the general progress of extracting classical information from quantum systems. We show that quantum state discrimination can be realized in a device-independent scenario using tools of self-testing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-25 Xinyu Qiu , Lin Chen

Quantum measurements can produce randomness arising from the uncertainty principle. When measuring a state with von Neumann measurements, the intrinsic randomness can be quantified by the quantum coherence of the state on the measurement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-17 Hao Dai , Boyang Chen , Xingjian Zhang , Xiongfeng Ma

Many superconducting qubit systems use the dispersive interaction between the qubit and a coupled harmonic resonator to perform quantum state measurement. Previous works have found that such measurements can induce state transitions in the…