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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

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

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

External monitoring of quantum many-body systems can give rise to a measurement-induced phase transition characterized by a change in behavior of the entanglement entropy from an area law to an unbounded growth. In this Letter, we show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-14 Alessio Paviglianiti , Alessandro Silva

The competition between scrambling and projective measurements can lead to measurement-induced entanglement phase transitions (MIPT). In this work, we show that the universality class of the MIPT is drastically altered when the system is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-04 Hyunsoo Ha , Akshat Pandey , Sarang Gopalakrishnan , David A. Huse

Recently, there is interest in coincident 'sharpening' and 'learnability' transitions in monitored quantum systems. In the latter, an outside observer's ability to infer properties of a quantum system from measurements undergoes a phase…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-15 Sun Woo P. Kim , Curt von Keyserlingk , Austen Lamacraft

We address how one can empirically infer properties of quantum states generated by dynamics involving measurements. Our focus is on many-body settings where the number of measurements is extensive, making brute-force approaches based on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-19 Max McGinley

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

Measurement-induced phase transitions (MIPTs) in monitored quantum dynamics are non-equilibrium phase transitions between quantum-chaotic (volume-law entangled) and entanglement-suppressed, area-law phases. We reveal how monitored dynamics…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-18 Haoyu Guo , Matthew S. Foster , Chao-Ming Jian , Andreas W. W. Ludwig

The dynamics of entanglement in `hybrid' non-unitary circuits (for example, involving both unitary gates and quantum measurements) has recently become an object of intense study. A major hurdle toward experimentally realizing this physics…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-02-11 Matteo Ippoliti , Vedika Khemani

Measurement-induced phase transitions (MIPTs) in monitored quantum systems are typically diagnosed using entanglement-based measures. Here, we develop a complementary thermodynamic perspective based on the arrow of time (AoT), which arises…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-23 Nitay Hurvitz , Alon Kochol , Victor Fleurov , Eran Sela

The interplay of unitary evolution and projective measurements is a modern interest in the study of many-body entanglement. On the one hand, the competition between these two processes leads to the recently discovered measurement-induced…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-05 Cole Kelson-Packer , Akimasa Miyake

Measurement-induced phase transitions (MIPTs) are known to be described by non-unitary conformal field theories (CFTs) whose precise nature remains unknown. Most physical quantities of interest, such as the entanglement features of quantum…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-01-08 Abhishek Kumar , Kemal Aziz , Ahana Chakraborty , Andreas W. W. Ludwig , Sarang Gopalakrishnan , J. H. Pixley , Romain Vasseur

Monitored quantum system have sparked great interest in recent years due to the possibility of observing measurement-induced phase transitions (MIPTs) in the full-counting statistics of the quantum trajectories associated with different…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-28 Alessandro Santini , Luca Lumia , Mario Collura , Guido Giachetti

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

One-dimensional systems---ranging from travelling light to circuit cables and from DNA to superstrings---are ubiquitous and critically important to the human knowledge of the universe. However, our engagement with one-dimensional systems in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-18 Weiguo Yin

Quantum measurement is a fundamental yet experimentally challenging ingredient of quantum information processing. Many recent studies on quantum dynamics focus on expectation values of nonlinear observables; however, their experimental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-02 Hong-Yi Wang

The description of the entanglement dynamics of monitored noninteracting fermions, including the existence of measurement-induced phase transitions (MIPTs), is a challenging problem with conflicting results in the literature. The mapping of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-06 Bo Fan , Can Yin , Antonio M. García-García

The comprehension of quantum phase transitions (QPTs) is considered as a critical foothold in the field of many-body physics. Developing protocols to effectively identify and understand QPTs thus represents a key but challenging task for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-03 Xiangbei Li , Yaoming Chu , Shaoliang Zhang , Jianming Cai

We study the problem of observing quantum collective phenomena emerging from large numbers of measurements. These phenomena are difficult to observe in conventional experiments because, in order to distinguish the effects of measurement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-22 Samuel J. Garratt , Ehud Altman