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We present a theory of the entanglement transition tuned by measurement strength in qudit chains evolved by random unitary circuits and subject to either weak or random projective measurements. The transition can be understood as a…

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Quantum entanglement is affected by unitary evolution, which spreads the entanglement through the whole system, and also by measurements, which usually tends to disentangle subsystems from the rest. Their competition has been known to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-24 Haifeng Tang , Hong-Yi Wang , Zhong Wang , Xiao-Liang Qi

Dissipation is inevitable in realistic quantum circuits. We examine the effects of dissipation on a class of monitored random circuits that exhibit a measurement-induced entanglement phase transition. This transition has previously been…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-10-13 Yue Li , Martin Claassen

Recently discovered measurement-induced entanglement phase transitions in monitored quantum circuits provide a novel example of far-from-equilibrium quantum criticality. Here, we propose a highly efficient strategy for experimentally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-24 Ali G. Moghaddam , Kim Pöyhönen , Teemu Ojanen

We put forward a phenomenological theory for entanglement dynamics in monitored quantum many-body systems with well-defined quasiparticles. Within this theory entanglement is carried by ballistically propagating non-Hermitian quasiparticles…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-04-21 Xhek Turkeshi , Marcello Dalmonte , Rosario Fazio , Marco Schirò

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

The resilience of quantum entanglement to a classicality-inducing environment is tied to fundamental aspects of quantum many-body systems. The dynamics of entanglement has recently been studied in the context of measurement-induced…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-21 Oliver Lunt , Arijeet Pal

We introduce a class of hybrid quantum circuits, with random unitaries and projective measurements, which host long-range order in the area law entanglement phase of the steady state. Our primary example is circuits with unitaries…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-06-22 Shengqi Sang , Timothy H. Hsieh

The extension of many-body quantum dynamics to the non-unitary domain has led to a series of exciting developments, including new out-of-equilibrium entanglement phases and phase transitions. We show how a duality transformation between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-26 Matteo Ippoliti , Tibor Rakovszky , Vedika Khemani

We identify a phase transition between two kinds of volume-law entangled phases in non-local but few-body unitary dynamics with local projective measurements. In one phase, a finite fraction of the system belongs to a fully-entangled state,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-08 Sagar Vijay

Extending notions of phase transitions to nonequilibrium realm is a fundamental problem for statistical mechanics. While it was discovered that critical transitions occur even for transient states before relaxation as the singularity of a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-09-02 Ryusuke Hamazaki

We consider measurement-induced phase transitions in monitored quantum circuits with a measurement rate that fluctuates in time, remaining spatially uniform at each time. The spatially correlated fluctuations in the measurement rate disrupt…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-02-24 Gal Shkolnik , Sarang Gopalakrishnan , David A. Huse , Snir Gazit , J. H. Pixley

We show that weak measurements can induce a quantum phase transition of interacting many-body systems from an ergodic thermal phase with a large entropy to a nonergodic localized phase with a small entropy, but only if the measurement…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-09-04 Marcin Szyniszewski , Alessandro Romito , Henning Schomerus

Random quantum circuit is a minimally structured model to study the entanglement dynamics of many-body quantum systems. In this paper, we considered a one-dimensional quantum circuit with noisy Haar-random unitary gates using density matrix…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-16 Qi Zhang , Guang-Ming Zhang

Strongly-coupled gauge theories far from equilibrium may exhibit unique features that could illuminate the physics of the early universe and of hadron and ion colliders. Studying real-time phenomena has proven challenging with…

We investigate the dynamics of two-dimensional quantum spin systems under the combined effect of random unitary gates and local projective measurements. When considering steady states, a measurement-induced transition occurs between two…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-16 Xhek Turkeshi , Rosario Fazio , Marcello Dalmonte

Monitored quantum circuits can exhibit an entanglement transition as a function of the rate of measurements, stemming from the competition between scrambling unitary dynamics and disentangling projective measurements. We study how…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-10-11 Utkarsh Agrawal , Aidan Zabalo , Kun Chen , Justin H. Wilson , Andrew C. Potter , J. H. Pixley , Sarang Gopalakrishnan , Romain Vasseur

We numerically investigate the robustness against various perturbations of measurement-induced phase transition in monitored quantum Ising models in the no-click limit, where the dynamics is described by a non-Hermitian Hamiltonian. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-01 Manali Malakar , Marlon Brenes , Dvira Segal , Alessandro Silva

Random measurements have been shown to induce a phase transition in an extended quantum system evolving under chaotic unitary dynamics, when the strength of measurements exceeds a threshold value. Below this threshold, a steady state with a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-06-02 Ruihua Fan , Sagar Vijay , Ashvin Vishwanath , Yi-Zhuang You

Ergodic quantum many-body systems undergoing unitary dynamics evolve towards increasingly entangled states characterized by an extensive scaling of entanglement entropy with system volume. At the other extreme, quantum systems repeatedly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-11 Jin Ming Koh , Shi-Ning Sun , Mario Motta , Austin J. Minnich