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The intensely studied measurement-induced entanglement phase transition has become a hallmark of non-unitary quantum many-body dynamics. Usually, such a transition only shows up at the level of each individual quantum trajectory, and is…

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We analyze the quantum trajectory dynamics of free fermions subject to continuous monitoring. For weak monitoring, we identify a novel dynamical regime of subextensive entanglement growth, reminiscent of a critical phase with an emergent…

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We study a free fermion model where two sets of non-commuting non-projective measurements stabilize area-law entanglement scaling phases of distinct topological order. We show the presence of a topological phase transition that is of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-15 Graham Kells , Dganit Meidan , Alessandro Romito

In recent years, the presence of local potentials has significantly enriched and diversified the entanglement patterns in monitored free fermion systems. In our approach, we employ the stochastic Schr\"odinger equation to simulate a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-09 Yu-Jun Zhao , Xuyang Huang , Yi-Rui Zhang , Han-Ze Li , Jian-Xin Zhong

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

We consider the effect of projective measurements on the quench dynamics of the bipartite entanglement entropy in one dimensional free fermionic systems. In our protocol, we consider projective measurements of a $U(1)$ conserved charge, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-15 Riccardo Travaglino , Colin Rylands , Pasquale Calabrese

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

Scrambling of quantum information in unitary evolution can be hindered due to measurements and localization, which pin quantum mechanical wavefunctions in real space suppressing entanglement in the steady state. In monitored free-fermionic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-24 Marcin Szyniszewski , Oliver Lunt , Arijeet Pal

Measurement-induced entanglement phase transitions in monitored quantum circuits have stimulated activity in a diverse research community. However, the study of measurement-induced dynamics, due to the requirement of exponentially complex…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-01 Kim Pöyhönen , Ali G. Moghaddam , Moein N. Ivaki , Teemu Ojanen

We use Majorana operators to study entanglement dynamics under random free fermion unitary evolution and projective measurements in one dimension. For certain choices of unitary evolution, namely those which swap neighboring Majorana…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-03-01 Joseph Merritt , Lukasz Fidkowski

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

We explore, both analytically and numerically, the quantum dynamics of a many-body free-fermion system subjected to local density measurements. We begin by extending the mapping to the nonlinear sigma-model (NLSM) field theory for the case…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-04-22 Igor Poboiko , Alexander D. Mirlin

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 explore the nonunitary dynamics of $(2+1)$-dimensional free fermions and show that the obtained steady state is critical regardless the strength of the nonunitary evolution. Numerical results indicate that the entanglement entropy has a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-05-13 Qicheng Tang , Xiao Chen , W. Zhu

We study a one-dimensional lattice system of free fermions subjected to a generalized measurement process: the system exchanges particles with its environment, but each fermion leaving or entering the system is counted. In contrast to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Elias Starchl , Mark H. Fischer , Lukas M. Sieberer

The competition between unitary quantum dynamics and dissipative stochastic effects, as emerging from continuous-monitoring processes, can culminate in measurement-induced phase transitions. Here, a many-body system abruptly passes, when…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-02-04 Moritz Eissler , Igor Lesanovsky , Federico Carollo

We study the interplay between measurement-induced dynamics and conditional unitary evolution in quantum systems. We numerically and analytically investigate commuting random measurement and feedforward (MFF) processes, and find a sharp…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-27 Alireza Seif , Yu-Xin Wang , Ramis Movassagh , Aashish A. Clerk

We analyze the dynamics of entanglement entropy in a generic quantum many-body open system from the perspective of quantum information and error corrections. We introduce a random unitary circuit model with intermittent projective…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-17 Soonwon Choi , Yimu Bao , Xiao-Liang Qi , Ehud Altman

We present random quantum circuit models for non-unitary quantum dynamics of free fermions in one spatial dimension. Numerical simulations reveal that the dynamics tends towards steady states with logarithmic violations of the entanglement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-08 Xiao Chen , Yaodong Li , Matthew P. A. Fisher , Andrew Lucas

Nascent quantum computers motivate the exploration of quantum many-body systems in nontraditional scenarios. For example, it has become natural to explore the dynamics of systems evolving under both unitary evolution and measurement. Such…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-03-15 Nicholas O'Dea , Alan Morningstar , Sarang Gopalakrishnan , Vedika Khemani
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