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Entanglement in a fermion chain under continuous monitoring

by Xiangyu Cao, Antoine Tilloy, Andrea De Luca

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Authors (as registered SciPost users): Xiangyu Cao · Andrea De Luca
Submission information
Preprint Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.04638v5  (pdf)
Date accepted: 2019-08-12
Date submitted: 2019-08-02 02:00
Submitted by: Cao, Xiangyu
Submitted to: SciPost Physics
Ontological classification
Academic field: Physics
Specialties:
  • Condensed Matter Physics - Theory
  • Quantum Physics
Approaches: Theoretical, Computational

Abstract

We study the entanglement entropy of the quantum trajectories of a free fermion chain under continuous monitoring of local occupation numbers. We propose a simple theory for entanglement entropy evolution from disentangled and highly excited initial states. It is based on generalized hydrodynamics and the quasi-particle pair approach to entanglement in integrable systems. We test several quantitative predictions of the theory against extensive numerics and find good agreement. In particular, the volume law entanglement is destroyed by the presence of arbitrarily weak measurement.

Author comments upon resubmission

Dear Editor and Referees,

We are thankful for your interest in the manuscript and helpful comments.

In the submitted revision, we strived to address all your suggestions. In particular, we added two new figures. Please see the list of changes for details.

We hope that the revised manuscript meets the criteria of SciPost.

Yours sincerely,

List of changes

major changes:
- added a figure on the entanglement growth with unitary unravelling to support the discussion (point 6 of Report 1).
- added a figure on the two-point mutual information of some representative quantum trajectories and discussed the meaning of the result (point 4 of Report 1).
- removed the previous flawed calculation in section 2 on the evolution of tensor squared.
Used instead a simpler argument (inspired by the referee's suggestion) to make our point (point 5 of Report 2).
- added a paragraph in introduction discussing significance of our study from the perspective of simulation of open quantum systems (point 1-2 of Report 1).

minor:
- fixed points 1 - 4 of Report 2.
- removed "good" from the footnote, following point 3 of Report 1.
- adding an explanation why fixing \lambda = 1/2 is ok (changing it and \gamma amounts to rescaling time; point 5 of Report 1).

Published as SciPost Phys. 7, 024 (2019)


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Anonymous Report 2 on 2019-8-10 (Invited Report)

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