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The recent direct experimental measurement of quantum entanglement paves the way towards a better understanding of many-body quantum systems and their correlations. Nevertheless, the experimental and theoretical advances had so far been…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-06-18 Eyal Cornfeld , Eran Sela , Moshe Goldstein

Continuous monitoring of one-dimensional free fermionic systems can generate phenomena reminiscent of quantum criticality, such as logarithmic entanglement growth, algebraic correlations, and emergent conformal invariance, but in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Clemens Niederegger , Tatiana Vovk , Elias Starchl , Lukas M. Sieberer

The intricate interplay between unitary evolution and projective measurements could induce entanglement phase transitions in the nonequilibrium dynamics of quantum many-particle systems. In this work, we uncover loss-induced entanglement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-21 Longwen Zhou

Effect of measurements on interacting fermionic systems with particle-number conservation, whose dynamics is governed by a time-independent Hamiltonian, is studied. We develop Keldysh field-theoretical framework that provides a unified…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-13 Igor Poboiko , Paul Pöpperl , Igor V. Gornyi , Alexander D. Mirlin

First order quantum phase transitions (1QPTs) are signaled, in the thermodynamic limit, by discontinuous changes in the ground state properties. These discontinuities affect expectation values of observables, including spatial correlations.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-12 A. Yuste , C. Cartwright , G. De Chiara , A. Sanpera

We numerically investigate measurement-induced phase transitions in monitored free fermions through the spectral and eigenstate properties of the entanglement Hamiltonian. By analyzing entanglement scaling, we identify three non-trivial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-11 Karim Chahine , Michael Buchhold

We study quantum phase transitions involving fractional quantum Hall states, using numerical calculations of entanglements and related quantities. We tune finite-size wavefunctions on spherical geometries, by varying the interaction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-10 Oleksandr Zozulya , Masudul Haque , Nicolas Regnault

The dynamics of entanglement has recently been realized as a useful probe in studying ergodicity and its breakdown in quantum many-body systems. In this paper, we study theoretically the growth of entanglement in quantum many-body systems…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-03-02 Wen Wei Ho , Dmitry A. Abanin

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

"Forgetful" measurements-physically similar to dephasing-are of interest both for applications to fault-tolerant quantum computing and fundamentally, in studying how entanglement and entropy spread. This paper investigates…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Yucheng He , Todd A. Brun

We analyze the dynamics of entanglement entropy in a generic quantum many-body open system from the perspective of quantum information and error corrections. We introduce a random unitary circuit model with intermittent projective…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-17 Soonwon Choi , Yimu Bao , Xiao-Liang Qi , Ehud Altman

Scrambling unitary dynamics in a quantum system transmutes local quantum information into a non-local web of correlations which manifests itself in a complex spatio-temporal pattern of entanglement. In such a context, we show there can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-02 Alan Sherry , Sthitadhi Roy

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

The traditional dynamical phase transition refers to the appearance of singularities in an observable with respect to a control parameter for a late-time state or singularities in the rate function of the Loschmidt echo with respect to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-30 Ze-Chuan Liu , Kai Li , Yong Xu

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

One of the main postulates of quantum mechanics is that measurements destroy quantum coherence (wave function collapse). Recently it was discovered that in a many-body system dilute local measurements still preserve some coherence across…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-13 Aleksei Khindanov , Igor L. Aleiner , Lara Faoro , Lev B. Ioffe

We study the evolution of a quantum many-body system driven by two competing measurements, which induces a topological entanglement transition between two distinct area law phases. We employ a positive operator-valued measurement with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-17 Ritu Nehra , Alessandro Romito , Dganit Meidan

Measurement-induced entanglement phase transitions, caused by the competition between entangling unitary dynamics and disentangling projective measurements, have been studied in various random circuit models in recent years. In this paper,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-02 Xuyang Yu , Xiao-Liang Qi

Measurement-induced phase transitions arise due to a competition between the scrambling of quantum information in a many-body system and local measurements. In this work we investigate these transitions in different classes of fast…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-29 Tomohiro Hashizume , Gregory Bentsen , Andrew J. Daley

Conformal field theories in curved backgrounds have been used to describe inhomogeneous one-dimensional systems, such as quantum gases in trapping potentials and non-equilibrium spin chains. This approach provided, in a elegant and simple…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-03-26 Sara Murciano , Paola Ruggiero , Pasquale Calabrese