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Measurement-only circuits provide a minimal setting in which repeated local projections can either generate or suppress many-body entanglement, giving rise to measurement-induced phase transitions and dynamical regimes, that might have no…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-27 Abigail McClain Gomez , Fiona Abney-McPeek , Hong-Ye Hu , Susanne F. Yelin , Ceren B. Dağ

We explore a roughening phase transition that occurs in the entanglement dynamics of certain quantum circuits. Viewing entanglement as the free energy of a membrane in a circuit-defined random environment, there is a competition between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Hyunsoo Ha , David A. Huse , Grace M. Sommers

The description of a measuring process, such as that which occurs when a quantum point contact (QPC) detector is influenced by a nearby external electron which can take up two possible positions, provides a interesting application of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 L. Stodolsky

We study the entanglement behavior of a random unitary circuit punctuated by projective measurements at the measurement-driven phase transition in one spatial dimension. We numerically study the logarithmic entanglement negativity of two…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-08-31 Bowen Shi , Xin Dai , Yuan-Ming Lu

Generic many-body systems coupled to an environment lose their quantum entanglement due to decoherence and evolve to a mixed state with only classical correlations. Here, we show that measurements can stabilize quantum entanglement within…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-07 Zack Weinstein , Yimu Bao , Ehud Altman

We report a phase transition in the projected ensemble - the collection of post-measurement wavefunctions of a local subsystem obtained by measuring its complement. The transition emerges in systems undergoing random permutation dynamics, a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Chang Liu , Matteo Ippoliti , Wen Wei Ho

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

The intensely studied measurement-induced entanglement phase transition has become a hallmark of non-unitary quantum many-body dynamics. Usually, such a transition only shows up at the level of each individual quantum trajectory, and is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-07-26 Vikram Ravindranath , Yiqiu Han , Zhi-Cheng Yang , Xiao Chen

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

Let a general quantum many-body system at a low temperature adiabatically cross through the vicinity of the system's quantum critical point. We show that the system's temperature is significantly suppressed due to both the entropy…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-08-27 Shi-Jian Gu

We study a class of (1+1)D symmetric random quantum circuits with two competing types of measurements in addition to random unitary dynamics. The circuit exhibits a rich phase diagram involving robust symmetry-protected topological (SPT),…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-03 Ali Lavasani , Yahya Alavirad , Maissam Barkeshli

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

Competition between unitary dynamics that scrambles quantum information non-locally and local measurements that probe and collapse the quantum state can result in a measurement-induced entanglement phase transition. Here we study this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-29 Gregory Bentsen , Subhayan Sahu , Brian Swingle

The development and spread of entanglement in complex quantum systems is central to exploring many-body phenomena out of equilibrium. Measuring entanglement dynamics can shed light on information scrambling and thermalisation, namely on…

Information-theoretic phase transitions, such as the measurement-induced phase transition (MIPT), characterize the robustness of quantum dynamics to local monitoring and are naturally formulated in terms of trajectories conditioned on…

We investigate the effect of quantum noise on the measurement-induced quantum phase transition in monitored random quantum circuits. Using the efficient simulability of random Clifford circuits, we find that the transition is broadened into…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-31 Beatriz C. Dias , Domagoj Perkovic , Masudul Haque , Pedro Ribeiro , Paul A. McClarty

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

The dynamics of a quantum-many body system subject to measurements is naturally described by an ensemble of quantum trajectories, which can feature measurement-induced phase transitions (MIPTs). This phenomenon cannot be revealed through…

We study multiparty entanglement near measurement induced phase transitions (MIPTs), which arise in ensembles of local quantum circuits built with unitaries and measurements. In contrast to equilibrium quantum critical transitions, where…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-06 James Allen , William Witczak-Krempa

In this work we investigate the conditions for quantum back action to result in a phase transition in the information dynamics of a monitored system. We introduce a framework that captures a wide range of experiments encompassing probes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-20 Shane P. Kelly , Jamir Marino