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Symmetry is a unifying concept in physics. In quantum information and beyond, it is known that quantum states possessing symmetry are not useful for certain information-processing tasks. For example, states that commute with a Hamiltonian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-27 Margarite L. LaBorde , Soorya Rethinasamy , Mark M. Wilde

The notion of symmetry is shown to be at the heart of all error correction/avoidance strategies for preserving quantum coherence of an open quantum system S e.g., a quantum computer. The existence of a non-trivial group of symmetries of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Zanardi

In this short review we present the key definitions, ideas and techniques involved in the study of symmetry resolved entanglement measures, with a focus on the symmetry resolved entanglement entropy. In order to be able to define such…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-24 Olalla A. Castro-Alvaredo , Lucía Santamaría-Sanz

This thesis aims to establish notions of symmetry for quantum states and channels as well as describe algorithms to test for these properties on quantum computers. Ideally, the work will serve as a self-contained overview of the subject. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-25 Margarite L. LaBorde

Controlling transport in quantum systems holds the key to many promising quantum technologies. Here we review the power of symmetry as a resource to manipulate quantum transport, and apply these ideas to engineer novel quantum devices.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-09-27 D. Manzano , P. I. Hurtado

We formulate a semi-classical circuit model to clarify the role of quantum entanglement in the recently discovered encoding phase transitions in quantum circuits with measurements. As a starting point we define a random circuit model with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-12 Anasuya Lyons , Soonwon Choi , Ehud Altman

By viewing entanglement as a state function, a new kind of phase transition takes place: the geometric phase transition. This phenomenon occurs due to singularities in the shape of the entangled states set. It is shown how this result can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Daniel Cavalcanti , Fernando G. S. L. Brandao , Marcelo O. Terra Cunha

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…

The characterization of collective behavior and nonequilibrium phase transitions in quantum systems is typically rooted in the analysis of suitable system observables, so-called order parameters. These observables might not be known a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-20 Erik Fitzner , Francesco Carnazza , Federico Carollo , Igor Lesanovsky

We present a simple theory accounting for two central observations in a recent experiment on quantum coarsening and collective dynamics on a programmable quantum simulator [T. Manovitz et al., Nature \textbf{638}, 86 (2025)]: an apparent…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-02 Federico Balducci , Anushya Chandran , Roderich Moessner

Symmetries are a key tool in understanding quantum systems, and, among many other things, can be exploited to increase the efficiency of numerical simulations of quantum dynamics. Disordered systems usually feature reduced symmetries and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 Mirco Erpelding , Adrian Braemer , Martin Gärttner

The entanglement asymmetry is a novel quantity that, using entanglement methods, measures how much a symmetry is broken in a part of an extended quantum system. So far it has only been used to characterise the breaking of continuous Abelian…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-02-08 Florent Ferro , Filiberto Ares , Pasquale Calabrese

The concept of symmetry breaking and the emergence of corresponding local order parameters constitute the pillars of modern day many body physics. The theory of quantum entanglement is currently leading to a paradigm shift in understanding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-18 V. Zauner , D. Draxler , L. Vanderstraeten , J. Haegeman , F. Verstraete

Spontaneous symmetry breaking is well understood through the classical "Mexican Hat" picture, which describes many quantum phases of matter. Recently, several new classes of quantum phases of matter, such as topological orders and symmetry…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-01 Fangzhou Liu , Xiao-Gang Wen

Spontaneous symmetry-breaking in phase transitions occurs when the system Hamiltonian is symmetric under a certain transformation, but the equilibrium states observed in nature are not. Here, we prove that when a discrete symmetry is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-13 Ángel L. Corps , Armando Relaño

Competition between unitary dynamics that scrambles quantum information non-locally and local measurements that probe and collapse the quantum state can result in a measurement-induced entanglement phase transition. Here we study this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-29 Gregory Bentsen , Subhayan Sahu , Brian Swingle

Competing measurements alone can give rise to distinct phases characterized by entanglement entropy$\unicode{x2013}$such as the volume law phase, symmetry-breaking (SB) phase, and symmetry-protected topological (SPT)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-08 Dongheng Qian , Jing Wang

We analyze quantum state estimation for finite samples based on symmetry information. The used measurement concept compares an unknown qubit to a reference state. We describe explicitly an adaptive strategy, that enhances the estimation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Christof J. Happ , Matthias Freyberger

Quantum metrology concerns improving the estimation of an unknown parameter using an optimal measurement scheme on the quantum system. More the optimality of the measurement, the better will be the improvement in sensing the value of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-30 H. S. Karthik

Symmetry is fundamental in the description and simulation of quantum systems. Leveraging symmetries in classical simulations of many-body quantum systems can results in significant overhead due to the exponentially growing size of some…