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Recently discovered measurement-induced entanglement phase transitions in monitored quantum circuits provide a novel example of far-from-equilibrium quantum criticality. Here, we propose a highly efficient strategy for experimentally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-24 Ali G. Moghaddam , Kim Pöyhönen , Teemu Ojanen

Continuous monitoring of an otherwise closed quantum system has been found to lead to a measurement-induced phase transition (MIPT) characterized by abrupt changes in the entanglement or purity of the many-body quantum state. For an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-13 Stav Haldar , Anthony J. Brady

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

Quantum measurements performed on a subsystem of a quantum many-body state can generate entanglement for its remaining constituents. The whole system including the measurement record is described by a hybrid mixed state, which can exhibit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-01 Qingyuan Wang , Romain Vasseur , Simon Trebst , Andreas W. W. Ludwig , Guo-Yi Zhu

We identify a phase transition between two kinds of volume-law entangled phases in non-local but few-body unitary dynamics with local projective measurements. In one phase, a finite fraction of the system belongs to a fully-entangled state,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-08 Sagar Vijay

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

Random Clifford circuits doped with non Clifford gates exhibit transitions to universal entanglement spectrum statistics[1] and quantum chaotic behavior. In [2] we proved that the injection of $O(n)$ non Clifford gates into a $n$-qubit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-05 Salvatore F. E. Oliviero , Lorenzo Leone , Alioscia Hamma

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

Measurement-induced entanglement phase transitions (MIET) highlight how local measurements drive quantum systems between area-law and volume-law entangled states. This review surveys MIET in free fermion models, focusing on how unitary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-10 Han-Ze Li , Jian-Xin Zhong , Xue-Jia Yu

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

We study temporal entanglement in dual-unitary Clifford circuits with probabilistic measurements preserving spatial unitarity. We exactly characterize the temporal entanglement barrier in the measurement-free regime, exhibiting ballistic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-27 Jiangtian Yao , Pieter W. Claeys

We introduce a class of hybrid quantum circuits, with random unitaries and projective measurements, which host long-range order in the area law entanglement phase of the steady state. Our primary example is circuits with unitaries…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-06-22 Shengqi Sang , Timothy H. Hsieh

We investigate the prospects of employing the linear cross-entropy to experimentally access measurement-induced phase transitions (MIPT) without requiring any postselection of quantum trajectories. For two random circuits that are identical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-08 Yaodong Li , Yijian Zou , Paolo Glorioso , Ehud Altman , Matthew P. A. Fisher

Monitored many-body systems can exhibit a phase transition between entangling and disentangling dynamical phases by tuning the strength of measurements made on the system as it evolves. This phenomenon is called the measurement-induced…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-05 Xiaozhou Feng , Jeremy Côté , Stefanos Kourtis , Brian Skinner

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

Repeated projective measurements in unitary circuits can lead to an entanglement phase transition as the measurement rate is tuned. In this work, we consider a different setting in which the projective measurements are replaced by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-25 Raúl Morral-Yepes , Adam Smith , S. L. Sondhi , Frank Pollmann

A quantum many-body system whose dynamics includes local measurements at a nonzero rate can be in distinct dynamical phases, with differing entanglement properties. We introduce theoretical approaches to measurement-induced phase…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-04-07 Adam Nahum , Sthitadhi Roy , Brian Skinner , Jonathan Ruhman

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

Monitored random circuits, consisting of alternating layers of entangling two-qubit gates and projective single-qubit measurements applied to some fraction $p$ of the qubits, have been a topic of recent interest. In particular, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-02 Yariv Yanay , Brian Swingle , Charles Tahan