QuICS-JQI-CMTC Seminar

Date
Fri, Apr 16, 2021 12:00 pm - 12:45 pm

Description

Title : Measurement induced phase transition in a solvable all-to-all Brownian circuit model
Speaker : Subhayan Sahu
 


Time : 12 - 12:45pm, Friday, April 16
Seminar will be held via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/97099328991 and Meeting ID : 970 9932 8991


Abstract: Competition between unitary dynamics that scrambles quantum information non-locally and local measurements that probe and collapse the quantum state can result in a measurement induced entanglement phase transition. Here we study this phenomenon in an all-to-all Brownian hybrid circuit model of qubits that is analytically tractable. A part of the system is initially entangled with a reference which remains mixed at low measurement rates but is purified at high measurement rates. After circuit averaging, purity of the reference can be represented as a path integral coupling four replicas with twisted boundary conditions. Saddle point analysis reveals a second-order bulk phase transition corresponding to replica permutation symmetry breaking below a critical measurement rate. This model also allows us to characterize the transition analytically and derive a simple mean field type theory for this transition.