Emergent conformal symmetry in nonunitary random dynamics of free fermions

We present random quantum circuit models for nonunitary quantum dynamics of free fermions in one spatial dimension. Numerical simulations reveal that the dynamics tends toward steady states with logarithmic violations of the entanglement area law and power law correlation functions. Moreover, starti...

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Main Authors: Xiao Chen, Yaodong Li, Matthew P. A. Fisher, Andrew Lucas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2020-07-01
Series:Physical Review Research
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.033017