Entanglement Domain Walls in Monitored Quantum Circuits and the Directed Polymer in a Random Environment

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. For one-dimensional hybrid circuits with both random unitary...

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Main Authors: Yaodong Li, Sagar Vijay, Matthew P.A. Fisher
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2023-03-01
Series:PRX Quantum
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PRXQuantum.4.010331