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A collection of self-propelled particles with volume exclusion interactions can exhibit the phenomenology of gas-liquid phase separation, known as motility-induced phase separation (MIPS). The non-equilibrium nature of the system is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-08-14 Benjamin Partridge , Chiu Fan Lee

The classical simulation of highly-entangling quantum dynamics is conjectured to be generically hard. Thus, recently discovered measurement-induced transitions between highly entangling and low-entanglement dynamics are phase transitions in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-16 Mircea Bejan , Campbell McLauchlan , Benjamin Béri

We revisit the measurement-induced phase transition (MPT) in Clifford circuits, which are both classically simulable and exhibit critical behavior widely believed to be distinct from classical percolation theory, using ZX-calculus. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-03 Einat Buznach , Debanjan Chowdhury , Jonathan Ruhman

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

Monitored quantum dynamics reveal quantum state trajectories which exhibit a rich phenomenology of entanglement structures, including a transition from a weakly-monitored volume law entangled phase to a strongly-monitored area law phase.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-03-28 Yaodong Li , Sagar Vijay , Matthew P. A. Fisher

We establish an operational connection between discrete rounds of generalized measurements and continuous-time decoherence, with an explicit correspondence between the number of measurement rounds and the evolution time. Operationally, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-12 Zhenyu Xu

Mixed-state phase transitions have recently attracted growing attention as a new frontier in nonequilibrium quantum matter and quantum information. In this work, we introduce the measurement-dressed imaginary-time evolution (MDITE) as a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-06 Yi-Ming Ding , Zenan Liu , Xu Tian , Zhe Wang , Yanzhang Zhu , Zheng Yan

The entanglement-induced barren plateau is an exponential vanishing of the parameter gradients with system size that limits the practical application of variational quantum algorithms(VQA). A landscape transition from barren plateau to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-30 Gaurav Gyawali , Sonny Rappaport , Tiago Sereno , Michael J. Lawler

We propose a solvable model of Quantum Darwinism to encoding transitions -- abrupt changes in how quantum information spreads in a many-body system under unitary dynamics. We consider a random Clifford circuit on an expanding tree, whose…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-13 Benoît Ferté , Xiangyu Cao

Monitored quantum dynamics -- unitary evolution interspersed with measurements -- has recently emerged as a rich domain for phase structure in quantum many-body systems away from equilibrium. Here we study monitored dynamics from the point…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-09 Matteo Ippoliti , Vedika Khemani

Measurement-induced phase transitions are nonequilibrium transitions between phases characterized by distinct entanglement scaling behaviors, driven by the competition between unitary dynamics and measurements. Despite recent numerical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-08 Yunxiang Liao , Max Matheussen , Xinghai Zhang

We study the entanglement behavior of a random unitary circuit punctuated by projective measurements at the measurement-driven phase transition in one spatial dimension. We numerically study the logarithmic entanglement negativity of two…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-08-31 Bowen Shi , Xin Dai , Yuan-Ming Lu

Measurement-driven transitions between extensive and sub-extensive scaling of the entanglement entropy receive interest as they illuminate the intricate physics of thermalization and control in open interacting quantum systems. Whilst this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-11-25 Marcin Szyniszewski , Alessandro Romito , Henning Schomerus

In this work we investigate the conditions for quantum back action to result in a phase transition in the information dynamics of a monitored system. We introduce a framework that captures a wide range of experiments encompassing probes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-20 Shane P. Kelly , Jamir Marino

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

A key challenge in observing measurement-induced phase transitions is the mitigation of the post-selection barrier, which causes the reproducibility of specific sequences of measurement readouts--the trajectory--to be exponentially small in…

We investigate ensembles of Matrix Product States (MPSs) generated by quantum circuit evolution followed by projection onto MPSs with a fixed bond dimension $\chi$. Specifically, we consider ensembles produced by: (i) random sequential…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-20 Hugo Lóio , Guillaume Cecile , Sarang Gopalakrishnan , Guglielmo Lami , Jacopo De Nardis

We define dynamical universality classes for many-body systems whose unitary evolution is punctuated by projective measurements. In cases where such measurements occur randomly at a finite rate $p$ for each degree of freedom, we show that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-07-29 Brian Skinner , Jonathan Ruhman , Adam Nahum

The interplay between unitary dynamics and local quantum measurements results in unconventional non-unitary dynamical phases and transitions. In this paper we investigate the dynamics of $(d+1)$-dimensional hybrid stabilizer circuits, for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-03-30 Piotr Sierant , Marco Schirò , Maciej Lewenstein , Xhek Turkeshi

Monitored many-body systems fall broadly into two dynamical phases, ``entangling'' or ``disentangling'', separated by a transition as a function of the rate at which measurements are made on the system. Producing an analytical theory of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-09-13 Xiaozhou Feng , Brian Skinner , Adam Nahum