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We explore the nonunitary dynamics of $(2+1)$-dimensional free fermions and show that the obtained steady state is critical regardless the strength of the nonunitary evolution. Numerical results indicate that the entanglement entropy has a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-05-13 Qicheng Tang , Xiao Chen , W. Zhu

Quantum measurements profoundly influence system dynamics. They lead to complex nonequilibrium phenomena like the quantum Zeno effect, and they can be used for mitigating errors in quantum simulations. Such an ability is particularly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-20 Matteo M. Wauters , Edoardo Ballini , Alberto Biella , Philipp Hauke

It is well known that by repeatedly measuring a quantum system it is possible to completely freeze its dynamics into a well defined state, a signature of the quantum Zeno effect. Here we show that for a many-body system evolving under…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-23 Alberto Biella , Marco Schiró

Trapping ultracold atoms in optical lattices enabled numerous breakthroughs uniting several disciplines. Coupling these systems to quantized light leads to a plethora of new phenomena and has opened up a new field of study. Here we…

Measurement-induced phase transitions have largely been explored for projective or continuous measurements of Hermitian observables, assuming perfect detection without information loss. Yet such transitions also arise in more general…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-19 Felix Kloiber-Tollinger , Lukas M. Sieberer

We study the entanglement entropy of the quantum trajectories of a free fermion chain under continuous monitoring of local occupation numbers. We propose a simple theory for entanglement entropy evolution from disentangled and highly…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-08-28 Xiangyu Cao , Antoine Tilloy , Andrea De Luca

In this paper, we show that the quantum Zeno effect occurs for any frequent quantum measurements or operations. As a result of the Zeno effect, for non-selective measurements (or trace preserving completely positive maps), the evolution of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-24 Ying Li , David Herrera-Marti , Leong Chuan Kwek

The Zeno effect occurs in quantum systems when a very strong measurement is applied, which can alter the dynamics in non-trivial ways. Despite being dissipative, the dynamics stay coherent within any degenerate subspaces of the measurement.…

We identify an unconventional algebraic scaling phase in the quantum dynamics of free fermions with long range hopping, which are exposed to continuous local density measurements. The unconventional phase is characterized by an algebraic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-01-19 Thomas Müller , Sebastian Diehl , Michael Buchhold

This paper presents a simple model for repeated measurement of a quantum system: the evolution of a free particle, simulated by discretising the particle's position. This model is easily simulated by computer and provides a useful arena to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 David Wallace

The quantum Zeno effect, in its original form, uses frequent projective measurements to freeze the evolution of a quantum system that is initially governed by a fixed Hamiltonian. We generalize this effect simultaneously in three directions…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-04-09 Tim Möbus , Michael M. Wolf

We explore, both analytically and numerically, the quantum dynamics of a many-body free-fermion system subjected to local density measurements. We begin by extending the mapping to the nonlinear sigma-model (NLSM) field theory for the case…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-04-22 Igor Poboiko , Alexander D. Mirlin

Performing quantum measurements produces not only the expectation value of a physical observable $O$ but also the probability distribution $P(o)$ of all possible outcomes $o$. The full counting statistics (FCS) $Z(\phi, O)\equiv \sum_o…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-12 Tian-Gang Zhou , Yi-Neng Zhou , Pengfei Zhang

We demonstrate that an attempt to measure a non-local in time quantity, such as the time average $\la A\ra_T$ of a dynamical variable $A$, by separating Feynman paths into ever narrower exclusive classes traps the system in eigensubspaces…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 D. Sokolovski

We investigate measurement-induced localization in a continuously monitored one-dimensional Aubry--Andr\'e--Harper model, focusing on the quantum Zeno regime in which the measurements dominate coherent dynamics. The presence of a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-15 Pinaki Singha , Nilanjan Roy , Marcin Szyniszewski , Auditya Sharma

The inhibition of the decay of a quantum system by frequent measurements is known as quantum Zeno effect. Beyond the limit of projective measurements, the interplay between the unitary dynamics of the system and the coupling to a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-09 Andreas Prinz-Zwick , Gert-Ludwig Ingold , Peter Talkner

We introduce and explore a one-dimensional "hybrid" quantum circuit model consisting of both unitary gates and projective measurements. While the unitary gates are drawn from a random distribution and act uniformly in the circuit, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-21 Yaodong Li , Xiao Chen , Matthew P. A. Fisher

We present random quantum circuit models for non-unitary quantum dynamics of free fermions in one spatial dimension. Numerical simulations reveal that the dynamics tends towards steady states with logarithmic violations of the entanglement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-08 Xiao Chen , Yaodong Li , Matthew P. A. Fisher , Andrew Lucas

We consider the effect of projective measurements on the quench dynamics of the bipartite entanglement entropy in one dimensional free fermionic systems. In our protocol, we consider projective measurements of a $U(1)$ conserved charge, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-15 Riccardo Travaglino , Colin Rylands , Pasquale Calabrese

We investigate the entanglement structure and wave function characteristics of continuously monitored free fermions with U$(1)$-symmetry in two spatial dimensions (2D). By deriving the exact fermion replica-quantum master equation, we line…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-15 K. Chahine , M. Buchhold