Measurement-induced quantum criticality under continuous monitoring
Yohei Fuji, Yuto Ashida
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15 pages, 14 figures, v3: This version includes corrections to the results obtained by an erroneous numerical algorithm in the previous versions, which caused quantitative changes to the numerical results
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 transitions as peak structures in the mutual information as a function of measurement strength, as previously reported for random unitary circuits with projective measurements. At the transition points, the entanglement entropy scales logarithmically and various physical quantities scale algebraically, implying emergent conformal criticality, for both integrable and nonintegrable one-dimensional interacting Hamiltonians; however, such transitions have been argued to be absent in noninteracting regimes in some previous studies. With the aid of $U(1)$ symmetry in our model, the measurement-induced criticality exhibits a spectral signature resembling a Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid theory from symmetry-resolved entanglement. These intriguing critical phenomena are unique to steady-state regimes of the conditional dynamics at the single-trajectory level, and are absent in the unconditional dynamics obeying the Lindblad master equation, in which the system ends up with the featureless, infinite-temperature mixed state. We also propose a possible experimental setup to test the predicted entanglement transition based on the subsystem particle-number fluctuations. This quantity should readily be measured by the current techniques of quantum gas microscopy and is in practice easier to obtain than the entanglement entropy itself.
Detecting (emergent) continuous symmetry of criticality via subsystem's entanglement spectrum
Westlake University(西湖大学);University of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences(健康与康复科学大学);Westlake Institute for Advanced Study(西湖高等研究院);Beihang University(北京航空航天大学)
Preempting Fermion Sign Problem: Unveiling Quantum Criticality through Nonequilibrium Dynamics in Imaginary Time
School of Physics, Sun Yat-sen University(中山大学物理学院);Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Magnetoelectric Physics and Devices, Sun Yat-sen University(中山大学磁电物理与器件广东省重点实验室);Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics & Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院物理研究所(北京凝聚态物理国家研究中心));University of Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院大学)
Anomalous Criticality of Absorbing State Transition toward Jamming
National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Nanjing University(南京大学固体微结构物理国家重点实验室);Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures and School of Physics, Nanjing University(南京大学先进微结构协同创新中心及物理学院)