Non-unitary dynamics
Many-body non-unitary dynamics can drive the system to non-thermal steady states which are hard to realize in the unitary dynamics.
Measurement driven entanglement phase transition
is constructed by using both local unitary gates and non-unitary single qubit projective measurement gates. We find a quantum phase transition through tuning the measurement strength with the order parameter as the entanglement entropy density. We explore by performing large scale simulation.
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We further investigate the quantum dynamics at the critical point and study the in this hybrid quantum circuit by performing data collapse for both entanglement entropy and mutual information.
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Emergent conformal symmetry in non-unitary random dynamics of free fermions
We find in non-unitary random free fermion dynamics and we show that the dynamics the correlation function arises out of a simple non-linear master equation.
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