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We describe in detail a counterexample to the topological classification of free fermion systems. We deal with a one dimensional chain of Majorana fermions with an unusual T symmetry. The topological invariant for the free fermion…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-29 Lukasz Fidkowski , Alexei Kitaev

Continuous monitoring of one-dimensional free fermionic systems can generate phenomena reminiscent of quantum criticality, such as logarithmic entanglement growth, algebraic correlations, and emergent conformal invariance, but in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Clemens Niederegger , Tatiana Vovk , Elias Starchl , Lukas M. Sieberer

The remarkable properties and potential applications of Majorana fermions have led to considerable efforts in recent years to realize topological matters that host these excitations. For a number-conserving system, there have been a few…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-01-10 X. Y. Yin , Tin-Lun Ho , Xiaoling Cui

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

We study one-component fermions in chain lattices with proximity-induced superconducting gap and interparticle short-range interaction, capable of hosting Majorana fermions. By systematically tracking various physical quantities, we show…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-09-22 Y. -H. Chan , Ching-Kai Chiu , Kuei Sun

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 develop solvable models of large-$N$ hybrid quantum circuits on qubits and fermions with long-range power-law interactions and continuous local monitoring, which provide analytical access to the entanglement phase diagram and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-12 Subhayan Sahu , Shao-Kai Jian , Gregory Bentsen , Brian Swingle

The universal behaviour of two-dimensional loop models can change dramatically when loops are allowed to cross. We study models with crossings both analytically and with extensive Monte Carlo simulations. Our main focus (the 'completely…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-06-13 Adam Nahum , P. Serna , A. M. Somoza , M. Ortuño

The evolution of a system coupled to baths is commonly described by a master equation that, in the long-time limit, yields a steady-state density matrix. However, when the same evolution is unraveled into quantum trajectories, it is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-16 Bo Xing , Giuliano Chiriacò , Paola Cappellaro , Rosario Fazio , Dario Poletti

Zero energy Majorana fermion states (Majoranas) can arise at the ends of a semiconducting wire in proximity with a superconductor. A first generation of experiments has detected a zero bias conductance peak in these systems that strongly…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-12-25 F. J. Burnell , Alexander Shnirman , Yuval Oreg

Coupling a many-body system to a thermal environment typically destroys the quantum coherence of its state, leading to an effective classical dynamics at the longest time scales. We show that systems with anyon-like defects can exhibit…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-06-09 Adam Nahum , Brian Skinner

Majorana bound states are interesting candidates for applications in topological quantum computation. Low energy models allowing to grasp their properties are hence conceptually important. The usual scenario in these models is that two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 N. Traverso Ziani , C. Fleckenstein , L. Vigliotti , B. Trauzettel , M. Sassetti

We study measurement-induced phases of free fermion systems with U(1) symmetry. Following a recent approach developed for Majorana chains, we derive a field theory description for the purity and bipartite entanglement at large space and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-12 Michele Fava , Lorenzo Piroli , Denis Bernard , Adam Nahum

The Holstein model of spinless fermions interacting with dispersionless phonons in one dimension is studied by a Green's function Monte Carlo technique. The ground state energy, first fermionic excited state, density wave correlations, and…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Ross H. McKenzie , C. J. Hamer , D. W. Murray

Majorana fermions, quantum particles with non-Abelian exchange statistics, are not only of fundamental importance, but also building blocks for fault-tolerant quantum computation. Although certain experimental breakthroughs for observing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-30 Rui-Lin Chu , Gui-Bin Liu , Wang Yao , Xiaodong Xu , Di Xiao , Chuanwei Zhang

Fracton topological phases host fractionalized topological quasiparticles with restricted mobility, with promising applications to fault-tolerant quantum computation. While a variety of exactly solvable fracton models have been proposed,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-08-21 Yizhi You , Felix von Oppen

Entanglement is analyzed in the Majorana fermion conformal field theory (CFT) in the vacuum, in the fermion state, and in states built from conformal interfaces. In the boundary-state approach, the Hilbert space admits two factorizations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-13 Christian Northe

We numerically investigate measurement-induced phase transitions in monitored free fermions through the spectral and eigenstate properties of the entanglement Hamiltonian. By analyzing entanglement scaling, we identify three non-trivial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-11 Karim Chahine , Michael Buchhold

We propose a scheme for extracting entangled charge qubits from quantum-dot chains that support zero-energy edge modes. The edge mode is composed of Majorana fermions localized at the ends of each chain. The qubit, logically encoded in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Li Dai , Watson Kuo , Ming-Chiang Chung

Monitored quantum systems, where unitary dynamics compete with continuous measurements, exhibit dynamical transitions as the measurement rate is varied. These reflect abrupt changes in the structure of the evolving wavefunction, captured by…