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We study the entanglement properties of non-Hermitian free fermionic models with translation symmetry using the correlation matrix technique. Our results show that the entanglement entropy has a logarithmic correction to the area law in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-22 Yi-Bin Guo , Yi-Cong Yu , Rui-Zhen Huang , Li-Ping Yang , Run-Ze Chi , Hai-Jun Liao , Tao Xiang

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

In this article, we study non-analyticities or cusps near a topological phase transition driven by changes of global topologies rather than by the formation of conventional (local) order. The particular phase transitions between…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-08-14 Fan Yang , Shao-Jian Jiang , Fei Zhou

Majorana fermions have recently garnered a great attention outside the field of particle physics, in condensed matter physics. In contrast to their particle physics counterparts, Majorana fermions are zero energy, chargeless, spinless,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-09-25 Rémy Pawlak , Silas Hoffman , Jelena Klinovaja , Daniel Loss , Ernst Meyer

We study the evolution of a quantum many-body system driven by two competing measurements, which induces a topological entanglement transition between two distinct area law phases. We employ a positive operator-valued measurement with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-17 Ritu Nehra , Alessandro Romito , Dganit Meidan

Recently there has been an intense effort to understand measurement induced transitions, but we still lack a good understanding of non-Markovian effects on these phenomena. To that end, we consider two coupled chains of free fermions, one…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-18 Mikheil Tsitsishvili , Dario Poletti , Marcello Dalmonte , Giuliano Chiriacò

In recent years, the reassessment of quantum physical phenomena under the framework of resource theories has triggered the design of novel quantum technologies that take advantage from quantum resources, such as entanglement and quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-08 Diego Paiva Pires , Diogo O. Soares-Pinto , E. Vernek

We study entanglement Hamiltonian (EH) associated with the reduced density matrix of free fermion models in delocalized-localized Anderson phase transition. We show numerically that the structure of the EH matrix differentiates the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-11-12 Mohammad Pouranvari , Jahanfar Abouie

All models of interacting electrons and spins can be reformulated as theories of interacting Majorana fermions. We consider the Kondo lattice model that admits a symmetric representation in terms of Majorana fermions. In the first part of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-08-06 Johan Nilsson , Matteo Bazzanella

We study the ground-state entanglement Hamiltonian for an interval of $N$ sites in a free-fermion chain with arbitrary filling. By relating it to a commuting operator, we find explicit expressions for its matrix elements in the large-$N$…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-08-02 Viktor Eisler , Ingo Peschel

The description of the entanglement dynamics of monitored noninteracting fermions, including the existence of measurement-induced phase transitions (MIPTs), is a challenging problem with conflicting results in the literature. The mapping of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-06 Bo Fan , Can Yin , Antonio M. García-García

Topological superconductors are believed to host exotic quasiparticle excitations known as Majorana zero-modes, with much of the evidence based on BCS mean-field theory. The direct application of mean-field arguments is tenuous in finite,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-03 Jaden Thomas-Markarian , Kartiek Agarwal , Ivar Martin

Within five-dimensional compactified theories we discuss generalized periodicity and orbifold boundary conditions that allow for mixing between particles and anti-particles after a shift by the size of extra dimensions or after the orbifold…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Bohdan Grzadkowski , Jose Wudka

Majorana fermions are rising as a promising key component in quantum computation. While the prevalent approach is to use a quadratic (i.e. non-interacting) Majorana Hamiltonian, when expressed in terms of Dirac fermions, generically the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-09-24 Zhoushen Huang , P. Wolfle , A. V. Balatsky

The study of real-time dynamics of fermions remains one of the last frontiers beyond the reach of classical simulations and is key to our understanding of quantum behavior in chemistry and materials, with implications for quantum…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-11-05 Matteo D'Anna , Jannes Nys , Juan Carrasquilla

Majorana fermions are the real (in a mathematical sense) counterparts of complex fermions like ordinary electrons. The promise of topological quantum computing has lead to substantial experimental progress in realizing these particles in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-08-06 Armin Rahmani , Marcel Franz

A wave function exposed to measurements undergoes pure state dynamics, with deterministic unitary and probabilistic measurement induced state updates, defining a quantum trajectory. For many-particle systems, the competition of these…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-11-02 M. Buchhold , Y. Minoguchi , A. Altland , S. Diehl

Repeated measurements can induce entanglement phase transitions in the dynamics of quantum systems. Interacting models, both chaotic and integrable, generically show a stable volume-law entangled phase at low measurement rates which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-21 Luca Lumia , Emanuele Tirrito , Rosario Fazio , Mario Collura

This study investigates the scaling behavior of the ground-state entanglement entropy in a model of free fermions on folded cubes. An analytical expression is derived in the large-diameter limit, revealing a strict adherence to the area…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-02-08 Pierre-Antoine Bernard , Zachary Mann , Gilles Parez , Luc Vinet

A recently developed lattice method for large numbers of strongly interacting nonrelativistic fermions exhibits a heavy tail in the distributions of correlators for large Euclidean time {\tau} and large number of fermions N, which only…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-03-19 Jong-Wan Lee , Michael G. Endres , David B. Kaplan , Amy N. Nicholson