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We study one-dimensional hybrid quantum circuits perturbed by quenched quasiperiodic (QP) modulations across the measurement-induced phase transition (MIPT). Considering non-Pisot QP structures, characterized by unbounded fluctuations,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-06-26 Gal Shkolnik , Aidan Zabalo , Romain Vasseur , David A. Huse , J. H. Pixley , Snir Gazit

Measurement-induced phase transitions (MIPT) give rise to novel dynamical states of quantum matter realized by balancing unitary evolution and measurements. We present large-scale numerical simulations of a trapped-ion native MIPT, argued…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-06 Liuke Lyu , James Allen , Yi Hong Teoh , Roger G Melko , William Witczak-Krempa

The Kibble-Zurek mechanism demands an initial adiabatic stage before an impulse stage to have a frozen correlation length that generates topological defects in a cooling phase transition. Here we study such a driven critical dynamics but…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-01-19 Yingyi Huang , Shuai Yin , Qijun Hu , Fan Zhong

We study the effects of symmetry-breaking perturbations in the out-of-equilibrium quantum dynamics of many-body systems slowly driven across a continuous quantum transition (CQT) by a time-dependent symmetry-preserving parameter. For this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-04-12 Francesca De Franco , Ettore Vicari

Measurement-induced phase transitions (MIPTs) epitomize new intellectual pursuits inspired by the advent of quantum hardware and the emergence of discrete and programmable circuit dynamics. Nevertheless, experimentally observing this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-25 Hyejin Kim , Abhishek Kumar , Yiqing Zhou , Yichen Xu , Romain Vasseur , Eun-Ah Kim

In this paper we address the question how the Kibble-Zurek mechanism, which describes the formation of topological defects in quantum systems subjected to a quench across a critical point, is generalized to the same scenario but for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-06 Patrik Hedvall , Jonas Larson

We study the out-of-equilibrium Kibble-Zurek (KZ) dynamics in quantum Ising chains in a transverse field, driven by a time-dependent longitudinal field $h(t)=t/t_s$ ($t_s$ is the time scale of the protocol), across their first-order quantum…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-10 Andrea Pelissetto , Davide Rossini , Ettore Vicari

We study the statistical properties of a single free quantum particle evolving coherently on a discrete lattice in ${\rm d}$ spatial dimensions where every lattice site is additionally subject to continuous measurement of the occupation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-20 Tony Jin , David G. Martin

We give an overview of the scaling of density of quasi-particles and excess energy (heat) for nearly adiabatic dynamics near quantum critical points (QCPs). In particular we discuss both sudden quenches of small amplitude and slow sweeps…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-05-19 Vladimir Gritsev , Anatoli Polkovnikov

The conventional Kibble-Zurek mechanism and the finite-time scaling provide universal descriptions of the driven critical dynamics from gapped initial states based on the adiabatic-impulse scenario. Here we investigate the driven critical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-22 Zhi Zeng , Yin-Kai Yu , Zhi-Xuan Li , Zi-Xiang Li , Shuai Yin

In this paper we continue to explore "hybrid" quantum circuit models in one-dimension with both unitary and measurement gates, focussing on the entanglement properties of wavefunction trajectories at long times, in the steady state. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-08-23 Yaodong Li , Xiao Chen , Matthew P. A. Fisher

The Kibble-Zurek mechanism is the paradigm to account for the nonadiabatic dynamics of a system across a continuous phase transition. Its study in the quantum regime is hindered by the requisite of ground state cooling. We report the…

Recent studies of quantum circuit models have theoretically shown that frequent measurements induce a transition in a quantum many-body system, which is characterized by the change of the scaling law of the entanglement entropy from a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-09-24 Shimpei Goto , Ippei Danshita

We investigate the critical behavior of momentum-space entanglement entropy at dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs) in translationally invariant two-band insulators and superconductors. By analyzing the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 Kaiyuan Cao , Mingzhi Li , Xiang-Ping Jiang , Shu Chen , Jian Wang

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

Universal scaling laws govern the density of topological defects generated while crossing an equilibrium continuous phase transition. The Kibble-Zurek mechanism (KZM) predicts the dependence on the quench time for slow quenches. By…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-12-07 Wei-can Yang , Makoto Tsubota , Adolfo del Campo , Hua-Bi Zeng

In this paper we study the driven critical dynamics in the three-state quantum chiral clock model. This is motivated by a recent experiment, which verified the Kibble-Zurek mechanism and the finite-time scaling in a reconfigurable…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-05-22 Rui-Zhen Huang , Shuai Yin

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

This work investigates dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs) in a one-dimensional Ising model subjected to a periodically modulated transverse field. In contrast to sudden quenches, we demonstrate that a DQPT can be induced in two…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-25 Yuanyuan Cheng , Yuxia Zhang , Tianhui Qiu , Peipei Xin , Bao-Ming Xu

It is well known that unitary evolution tends to increase entanglement, whereas continuous monitoring counteracts this growth by pinning the wavefunction trajectories to the eigenstates of the measurement operators. In this work, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-09 Pallabi Chatterjee , Ranjan Modak