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We develop a dynamical framework for quantum measurement based on stochastic but unitary evolution in projective state space. Random Hamiltonians drawn from the Gaussian Unitary Ensemble generate stochastic unitary dynamics of the quantum…

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We study entanglement dynamics in hybrid $\mathbb{Z}_2$-symmetric quantum automaton circuits subject to local composite measurements. We show that there exists an entanglement phase transition from a volume law phase to a critical phase by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-04 Yiqiu Han , Xiao Chen

Monitored quantum dynamics reveal quantum state trajectories which exhibit a rich phenomenology of entanglement structures, including a transition from a weakly-monitored volume law entangled phase to a strongly-monitored area law phase.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-03-28 Yaodong Li , Sagar Vijay , Matthew P. A. Fisher

We introduce a class of dissipative quantum spin models with local interactions and without quenched disorder that show glassy behaviour. These models are the quantum analogs of the classical facilitated spin models. Just like their…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-07-31 Beatriz Olmos , Igor Lesanovsky , Juan P. Garrahan

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

Many-body quantum systems are notoriously hard to study theoretically due to the exponential growth of their Hilbert space. It is also challenging to probe the quantum correlations in many-body states in experiments due to their sensitivity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-18 Oliver Lunt , Jonas Richter , Arijeet Pal

The glass phase and its quantum analog are prominent challenges of current non-equilibrium statistical mechanics and condensed matter physics. As a model system to study the transition from classical to quantum glassy dynamics, we propose a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-23 Marco Mattioli , Alexander W. Glaetzle , Wolfgang Lechner

Monitored quantum circuits in which entangling unitary dynamics compete with projective local measurements can host measurement-induced phase transitions witnessed by entanglement measures at late times. Adding feedback conditioned on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-17 Haining Pan , Thomas Iadecola , E. M. Stoudenmire , J. H. Pixley

We develop classical simulation algorithms for adaptive quantum circuits that produce states with low levels of ``magic'' (i.e., non-stabilizerness). These algorithms are particularly well-suited to circuits with high rates of Pauli…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-22 Kemal Aziz , Haining Pan , Michael J. Gullans , J. H. Pixley

We formulate a semi-classical circuit model to clarify the role of quantum entanglement in the recently discovered encoding phase transitions in quantum circuits with measurements. As a starting point we define a random circuit model with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-12 Anasuya Lyons , Soonwon Choi , Ehud Altman

From the dynamics of a broad class of classical mean-field glass models one may obtain a quantum model with finite zero-temperature entropy, a quantum transition at zero temperature, and a time-reparametrization (quasi-)invariance in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-05 Davide Facoetti , Giulio Biroli , Jorge Kurchan , David R. Reichman

The model of open quantum systems is adopted to describe the non-local dynamical behaviour of qubits processed by entangling gates. The analysis gets to the conclusion that a distinction between evaluation steps and task-oriented computing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-24 Stefano Bonzio , Paola Verrucchi

Starting from a state of low quantum entanglement, local unitary time evolution increases the entanglement of a quantum many-body system. In contrast, local projective measurements disentangle degrees of freedom and decrease entanglement.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-07-24 Amos Chan , Rahul M. Nandkishore , Michael Pretko , Graeme Smith

Quantum circuits offer a versatile platform for simulating digital quantum dynamics and uncovering novel states of non-equilibrium quantum matter. One principal example are measurement-induced phase transitions arising from non-unitary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-10 Kai Klocke , Daniel Simm , Guo-Yi Zhu , Simon Trebst , Michael Buchhold

We describe explicitly how entanglement between quantum mechanical subsystems can lead to emergent gauge symmetry in a classical limit. We first provide a precise characterisation of when it is consistent to treat a quantum subsystem…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-12 Josh Kirklin

Quantum many-body devices suffer from imperfections that destabilize dynamics and limit scalability. We show that the dynamical growth of entanglement can intrinsically protect generic quantum dynamics against coherent and perturbative…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 Tianfeng Feng , Yue Cao , Wenjun Yu , Junkai Zeng , Xiaopeng Li , Xiu-Hao Deng , Qi Zhao

We study the effect of local projective measurements on the quantum quench dynamics. As a concrete example, a one-dimensional Bose-Hubbard model is simulated by the matrix product state and time-evolving block decimation. We map out a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-01-14 Qicheng Tang , W. Zhu

We investigate new features, especially of entanglement dynamics, which arise in a quantum-classical hybrid. As a model, we study the coupling between two quantum mechanical two-level systems, i.e. two q-bits, and a classical harmonic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-24 L. Fratino , A. Lampo , H. -T. Elze

A comprehensive microscopic dynamical theory is presented for the description of quantum fluids as they transform into glasses. The theory is based on a quantum extension of mode-coupling theory. Novel effects are predicted, such as…

Classical thermodynamics is unrivalled in its range of applications and relevance to everyday life. It enables a description of complex systems, made up of microscopic particles, in terms of a small number of macroscopic quantities, such as…

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