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In recent years, the presence of local potentials has significantly enriched and diversified the entanglement patterns in monitored free fermion systems. In our approach, we employ the stochastic Schr\"odinger equation to simulate a…

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The interplay of unitary evolution and local measurements in many-body systems gives rise to a stochastic state evolution and to measurement-induced phase transitions in the pure state entanglement. In realistic settings, however, this…

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Modeling open quantum systems -- quantum systems coupled to a bath -- is of value in condensed matter theory, cavity quantum electrodynamics, nanosciences and biophysics. The real-time simulation of open quantum systems was advanced…

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Much has been learned about universal properties of the eigenstate entanglement entropy for one-dimensional lattice models, which is described by a Hermitian Hamiltonian. While very less of it has been understood for non-Hermitian systems.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-06-25 Ranjan Modak , Bhabani Prasad Mandal

In certain special circumstances, such as in the vicinity of a black hole or in a uniformly accelerating frame, vacuum fluctuations appear to give rise to a finite-temperature environment. This effect, currently without experimental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-16 Ali G. Moghaddam , Kim Pöyhönen , Teemu Ojanen

In unitary circuit games, two competing parties, an "entangler" and a "disentangler", can induce an entanglement phase transition in a quantum many-body system. The transition occurs at a certain rate at which the disentangler acts. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-29 Raúl Morral-Yepes , Marc Langer , Adam Gammon-Smith , Barbara Kraus , Frank Pollmann

We explore the nonunitary dynamics of $(2+1)$-dimensional free fermions and show that the obtained steady state is critical regardless the strength of the nonunitary evolution. Numerical results indicate that the entanglement entropy has a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-05-13 Qicheng Tang , Xiao Chen , W. Zhu

We study the unitary time evolution of the entropy of entanglement of a one-dimensional system between the degrees of freedom in an interval of length l and its complement, starting from a pure state which is not an eigenstate of the…

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One of the greatest challenges in quantum information processing is the coherent control over quantum systems with an ever increasing number of particles. Within this endeavor, the harnessing of many-body entanglement against the effects of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-03 Leandro Aolita , Fernando de Melo , Luiz Davidovich

Entanglement is essential in quantum information science. Typically, the inevitable coupling between quantum systems and environment inhibits entanglement from being created between long-distance subsystems and being maintained for a long…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-03 Yuebing Zhou , Jiawei Hu , Hongwei Yu

We investigate entanglement phase transitions from volume-law to area-law entanglement in a quantum many-body state under continuous position measurement on the basis of the quantum trajectory approach. We find the signatures of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-02-15 Yohei Fuji , Yuto Ashida

A common view in monitored quantum dynamics is that local measurements suppress entanglement growth. We show that this intuition can fail in a one-dimensional spinful fermionic chain governed by a BCS Hamiltonian with pairing strength…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-07 Rui-Jing Guo , Ji-Yao Chen , Zhi-Yuan Wei

The mixing process of discrete-time quantum walks on one-dimensional lattices is revisited in a setting where the walker is coupled to an environment, and the time evolution of the walker and the environment is unitary. The mixing process…

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Entanglement in quantum many-body systems can exhibit universal phenomena governed by long-distance properties. We study universality and phase transitions of the entanglement inherent to open many-body systems, namely, the entanglement…

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We study the entanglement dynamics and relaxation properties of a system of two interacting qubits in the two cases (I) two independent bosonic baths and (II) one common bath, at temperature T. The entanglement dynamics is studied in terms…

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We study the scaling of logarithmic negativity between adjacent subsystems in critical fermion chains with various inhomogeneous modulations through numerically calculating its recently established lower and upper bounds. For random…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-08-19 Gergő Roósz , Zoltán Zimborás , Róbert Juhász

Temporal entanglement (TE) of an influence matrix (IM) has been proposed as a measure of complexity of simulating dynamics of local observables in a many-body system. Foligno et al. [Phys. Rev. X 13, 041008 (2023)] recently argued that the…

We consider a system of two indistinguishable fermions (with four accessible states each) that suffers decoherence without dissipation due to its coupling with a global bosonic bath at a fixed temperature. Using an appropriate measure of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-23 E. Salinas , A. P. Majtey , A. Valdés-Hernández

We consider a free fermionic chain with monitoring of the particle density on a single site of the chain and study the entanglement dynamics of quantum jump trajectories. We show that the entanglement entropy grows in time towards a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-20 Giovanni Di Fresco , Youenn Le Gal , Davide Valenti , Marco Schirò , Angelo Carollo

The Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis (ETH) has been established as a cornerstone for understanding thermalization in quantum many-body systems. Recently, there has been growing interest in the full ETH, which extends the framework of…

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