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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…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-07-26 Vikram Ravindranath , Yiqiu Han , Zhi-Cheng Yang , Xiao Chen

We present a theory of the entanglement transition tuned by measurement strength in qudit chains evolved by random unitary circuits and subject to either weak or random projective measurements. The transition can be understood as a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-03-05 Yimu Bao , Soonwon Choi , Ehud Altman

We put forward a phenomenological theory for entanglement dynamics in monitored quantum many-body systems with well-defined quasiparticles. Within this theory entanglement is carried by ballistically propagating non-Hermitian quasiparticles…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-04-21 Xhek Turkeshi , Marcello Dalmonte , Rosario Fazio , Marco Schirò

Interspersing unitary dynamics with local measurements results in measurement-induced phases and transitions in many-body quantum systems. When the evolution is driven by a local Hamiltonian, two types of transitions have been observed,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-23 Bo Xing , Xhek Turkeshi , Marco Schiró , Rosario Fazio , Dario Poletti

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

Pushing forward the understanding of general non-unitary dynamics in controlled quantum platforms has been fueled by the recent discovery of measurement-induced phases and phase transitions. So far, these transitions remained largely…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-08-24 M. Buchhold , T. Müller , S. Diehl

Generic many-body systems coupled to an environment lose their quantum entanglement due to decoherence and evolve to a mixed state with only classical correlations. Here, we show that measurements can stabilize quantum entanglement within…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-07 Zack Weinstein , Yimu Bao , Ehud Altman

We study the competing effects of collective generalized measurements and interaction-induced scrambling in the dynamics of an ensemble of spin-1/2 particles at the level of quantum trajectories. This setup can be considered as analogous to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-24 Pablo M. Poggi , Manuel H. Muñoz-Arias

Entanglement measures have emerged as one of the versatile probes to diagnose quantum phases and their transitions. Universal features in them expand their applicability to a range of systems, including those with quenched disorder. In this…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-07-18 Subrata Pachhal , Adhip Agarwala

We study the effect of local projective measurements on the quantum quench dynamics. As a concrete example, a one-dimensional Bose-Hubbard model is simulated by the matrix product state and time-evolving block decimation. We map out a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-01-14 Qicheng Tang , W. Zhu

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

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

Measurements are able to fundamentally affect quantum dynamics. We here show that a continuously measured quantum many-body system can undergo a spontaneous transition from asynchronous stochastic dynamics to noise-free stable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-05 Finn Schmolke , Eric Lutz

Quantum entanglement is affected by unitary evolution, which spreads the entanglement through the whole system, and also by measurements, which usually tends to disentangle subsystems from the rest. Their competition has been known to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-24 Haifeng Tang , Hong-Yi Wang , Zhong Wang , Xiao-Liang Qi

Non-equilibrium dynamics of many-body quantum systems under the effect of measurement protocols is attracting an increasing amount of attention. It has been recently revealed that measurements may induce different non-equilibrium regimes…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-09-13 Emanuele Tirrito , Alessandro Santini , Rosario Fazio , Mario Collura

Measurements on a quantum particle unavoidably affect its state, since the otherwise unitary evolution of the system is interrupted by a non-unitary projection operation. In order to probe measurement-induced effects in the state dynamics…

We show how distinct phases of matter can be generated by performing random single-qubit measurements on a subsystem of toric code. Using a parton construction, such measurements map to random Gaussian tensor networks, and in particular,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-21 Amir-Reza Negari , Subhayan Sahu , Timothy H. Hsieh

An analysis of quantum measurement is presented that relies on an information-theoretic description of quantum entanglement. In a consistent quantum information theory of entanglement, entropies (uncertainties) conditional on measurement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 N. J. Cerf , C. Adami

Dynamical phase transitions induced by local projective measurements have attracted a lot of attention in the past few years. It has been in particular argued that measurements may induce an abrupt change in the scaling law of the bipartite…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-10 Dragi Karevski , Michele Coppola , Emanuele Tirrito , Mario Collura

We introduce a new measure called reduced entropy of sublattice to quantify entanglement in spin, electron and boson systems. By analyzing this quantity, we reveal an intriguing connection between quantum entanglement and quantum phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Y. Chen , Z. D. Wang , F. C. Zhang