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Measurement-induced phase transitions arise due to a competition between the scrambling of quantum information in a many-body system and local measurements. In this work we investigate these transitions in different classes of fast…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-29 Tomohiro Hashizume , Gregory Bentsen , Andrew J. Daley

Unitary circuits subject to repeated projective measurements can undergo an entanglement phase transition (EPT) as a function of the measurement rate. This transition is generally understood in terms of a competition between the scrambling…

Measurement-only circuits provide a minimal setting in which repeated local projections can either generate or suppress many-body entanglement, giving rise to measurement-induced phase transitions and dynamical regimes, that might have no…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-27 Abigail McClain Gomez , Fiona Abney-McPeek , Hong-Ye Hu , Susanne F. Yelin , Ceren B. Dağ

Measurement-only (quantum) circuit (MoC) gives possibility to realize the states with rich entanglements, topological orders and quantum memories. This work studies the MoC, in which the projective-measurement operators consist of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Keisuke Kataoka , Yoshihito Kuno , Takahiro Orito , Ikuo Ichinose

Measurements can drive quantum many-body systems into nontrivial steady states and induce interesting dynamical phase transitions, rendering measurement-only quantum circuits a useful platform for exploring quantum many-body phases beyond…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Bihui Zhu

Scrambling unitary dynamics in a quantum system transmutes local quantum information into a non-local web of correlations which manifests itself in a complex spatio-temporal pattern of entanglement. In such a context, we show there can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-02 Alan Sherry , Sthitadhi Roy

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

In a fast scrambling many-body quantum system, information is spread and entanglement is built up on a timescale that grows logarithmically with the system size. This is of fundamental interest in understanding the dynamics of many-body…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-07 Sridevi Kuriyattil , Tomohiro Hashizume , Gregory Bentsen , Andrew J. Daley

The competition between scrambling unitary evolution and projective measurements leads to a phase transition in the dynamics of quantum entanglement. Here, we demonstrate that the nature of this transition is fundamentally altered by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-25 Maxwell Block , Yimu Bao , Soonwon Choi , Ehud Altman , Norman Yao

Local measurements in quantum systems are projective operations which act to counteract the spread of quantum entanglement. Recent work has shown that local, random measurements applied to a generic volume-law entanglement generating…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-07-14 Josef Willsher , Shu-Wei Liu , Roderich Moessner , Johannes Knolle

Quantum scrambling describes the spreading of local information into many degrees of freedom in quantum systems. This provides the conceptual connection among diverse phenomena ranging from thermalizing quantum dynamics to models of black…

Measurement-only models offer an ideal platform for exploring entanglement dynamics in the absence of unitary evolution. Despite extensive numerical evidence for entanglement phase transitions in measurement-only dynamics, the underlying…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-06 Zhichen Huang , Chunxiao Du , Yang Zhou , Zhisong Xiao

Developing quantum technologies requires the control and understanding of the non-equilibrium dynamics of quantum information in many-body systems. Local information propagates in the system by creating complex correlations known as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-08 Federico D. Domínguez , Gonzalo A. Álvarez

Quantum measurement is a process that involves the interaction between a quantum system and a macroscopic measurement apparatus containing many degrees of freedom. The photodetector is such an apparatus with many electrons interacting with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-31 Yubao Liu , Haixing Miao , Yanbei Chen , Yiqiu Ma

In ergodic many-body quantum systems, locally encoded quantum information becomes, in the course of time evolution, inaccessible to local measurements. This concept of "scrambling" is currently of intense research interest, entailing a deep…

In recent years, quantum circuits consisting of unitary gates and projective measurements have become valuable tools for stimulating or preparing quantum many-body states with non-trivial properties. Here, we introduce and examine a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-22 Hui Yu , Jiangping Hu

Projective measurement, a basic operation in quantum mechanics, can induce seemingly nonlocal effects. In this work, we analyze such effects in many-body systems by studying the non-equilibrium dynamics of weakly monitored quantum circuits,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-06-19 Shengqi Sang , Zhi Li , Timothy H. Hsieh , Beni Yoshida

The study of information scrambling in many-body systems has sharpened our understanding of quantum chaos, complexity and gravity. Here, we extend the framework for exploring information scrambling to infinite dimensional continuous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 Quntao Zhuang , Thomas Schuster , Beni Yoshida , Norman Y. Yao

The resilience of quantum entanglement to a classicality-inducing environment is tied to fundamental aspects of quantum many-body systems. The dynamics of entanglement has recently been studied in the context of measurement-induced…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-21 Oliver Lunt , Arijeet Pal

Quantum scrambling is the dispersal of local information into many-body quantum entanglements and correlations distributed throughout the entire system. This concept underlies the dynamics of thermalization in closed quantum systems, and…

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