Topological transitions with continuously monitored free fermions

Kells, Graham and Meidan, Dganit and Romito, Alessandro (2023) Topological transitions with continuously monitored free fermions. Other. SciPost Foundation.

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Abstract

We study a free fermion model where two sets of non-commuting non-projective measurements stabilize area-law entanglement scaling phases of distinct topological order. We show the presence of a topological phase transition that is of a different universality class than that observed in stroboscopic projective circuits. In the presence of unitary dynamics, the two topologically distinct phases are separated by a region with sub-volume scaling of the entanglement entropy. We find that this entanglement transition is well identified by a combination of the bipartite entanglement entropy and the topological entanglement entropy. We further show that the phase diagram is qualitatively captured by an analytically tractable non-Hermitian model obtained via post-selecting the measurement outcome. Finally we introduce a partial-post-selection continuous mapping, that uniquely associates topological indices of the non-Hermitian Hamiltonian to the distinct phases of the stochastic measurement-induced dynamics.

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Monograph (Other)
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19 pages, 9 figures, expanded Sec III, added appendix B
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188857
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14 Mar 2023 12:10
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07 Jan 2024 00:28