Random quantum circuits

MPA Fisher, V Khemani, A Nahum… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Quantum circuits—built from local unitary gates and local measurements—are a new
playground for quantum many-body physics and a tractable setting to explore universal …

Coherent and dissipative dynamics at quantum phase transitions

D Rossini, E Vicari - Physics Reports, 2021 - Elsevier
The many-body physics at quantum phase transitions shows a subtle interplay between
quantum and thermal fluctuations, emerging in the low-temperature limit. In this review, we …

Measurement-induced entanglement phase transition on a superconducting quantum processor with mid-circuit readout

JM Koh, SN Sun, M Motta, AJ Minnich - Nature Physics, 2023 - nature.com
Quantum many-body systems subjected to unitary evolution with the addition of interspersed
measurements exhibit a variety of dynamical phases that do not occur under pure unitary …

Theory of the phase transition in random unitary circuits with measurements

Y Bao, S Choi, E Altman - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
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 …

Measurement-induced criticality in random quantum circuits

CM Jian, YZ You, R Vasseur, AWW Ludwig - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
We investigate the critical behavior of the entanglement transition induced by projective
measurements in (Haar) random unitary quantum circuits. Using a replica approach, we …

Measurement and entanglement phase transitions in all-to-all quantum circuits, on quantum trees, and in Landau-Ginsburg theory

A Nahum, S Roy, B Skinner, J Ruhman - PRX Quantum, 2021 - APS
A quantum many-body system whose dynamics includes local measurements at a nonzero
rate can be in distinct dynamical phases, with differing entanglement properties. We …

Dynamical purification phase transition induced by quantum measurements

MJ Gullans, DA Huse - Physical Review X, 2020 - APS
Continuously monitoring the environment of a quantum many-body system reduces the
entropy of (purifies) the reduced density matrix of the system, conditional on the outcomes of …

Critical properties of the measurement-induced transition in random quantum circuits

A Zabalo, MJ Gullans, JH Wilson, S Gopalakrishnan… - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
We numerically study the measurement-driven quantum phase transition of Haar-random
quantum circuits in 1+ 1 dimensions. By analyzing the tripartite mutual information we are …

Effective theory for the measurement-induced phase transition of Dirac fermions

M Buchhold, Y Minoguchi, A Altland, S Diehl - Physical Review X, 2021 - APS
A wave function subject to unitary time evolution and exposed to measurements undergoes
pure state dynamics, with deterministic unitary and probabilistic measurement-induced state …

Measurement-induced topological entanglement transitions in symmetric random quantum circuits

A Lavasani, Y Alavirad, M Barkeshli - Nature Physics, 2021 - nature.com
Random quantum circuits, in which an array of qubits is subjected to a series of randomly
chosen unitary operations, have provided key insights into the dynamics of many-body …