Boundary transfer matrix spectrum of measurement-induced transitions

ORAL

Abstract

Measurement-induced phase transitions (MIPTs) are known to be described by non-unitary conformal field theories (CFTs) whose precise nature remains unknown. Most physical quantities of interest, such as the entanglement features of quantum trajectories, are described by boundary observables in this CFT. We introduce a transfer matrix approach to study the boundary spectrum of this field theory, and consider a variety of boundary conditions. We apply this approach numerically to monitored Haar and Clifford circuits, and to the measurement-only Ising model where the boundary scaling dimensions can be derived analytically. Our transfer matrix approach provides a systematic numerical tool to study the spectrum of MIPTs.

* This work was partially supported by the Abrahams Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Center for Materials Theory Rutgers, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research under Grant No. FA9550-21-1-0123, the Army Research Office Grant No. 79849-PE-H and a Sloan Research Fellowship. This work was performed in part at the Aspen Center for Physics, which is supported by National Science Foundation grant PHY-2210452. The authors acknowledge the following research computing resources that have contributed to the results reported here: the Open Science Grid, which is supported by the National Science Foundation award 1148698, and the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science.

Publication: arXiv:2310.03078

Presenters

  • Abhishek Kumar

    University of Massachusetts Amherst

Authors

  • Abhishek Kumar

    University of Massachusetts Amherst

  • Kemal Aziz

    Rutgers University

  • Ahana Chakraborty

    Rutgers University

  • Andreas W Ludwig

    University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Sarang Gopalakrishnan

    Princeton University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton

  • Jed H Pixley

    Rutgers University

  • Romain Vasseur

    University of Massachusetts Amherst