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Triviality of quantum trajectories close to a directed percolation transition

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We study quantum circuits consisting of unitary gates, projective measurements, and control operations that steer the system towards a pure absorbing state. Two types of phase transition occur as the rate of these control operations is increased: a measurement-induced entanglement transition, and a directed percolation transition into the absorbing state (taken here to be a product state). In this work we show that these transitions are generically distinct, with the quantum trajectories becoming disentangled before the absorbing state transition is reached, and we analyze their critical properties. We introduce a simple class of models where the measurements in each quantum trajectory define an effective tensor network -- a subgraph of the initial spacetime graph where nontrivial time evolution takes place. By analyzing the entanglement properties of the effective tensor network, we show that the entanglement and absorbing-state transitions coincide only in the limit of infinite local Hilbert-space dimension. Focusing on a Clifford model which allows numerical simulations for large system sizes, we verify our predictions and study the finite-size crossover between the two transitions at large local Hilbert space dimension. We give evidence that the entanglement transition is governed by the same fixed point as in hybrid circuits without feedback.

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hal-03933149 , version 1 (10-01-2023)

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Lorenzo Piroli, Yaodong Li, Romain Vasseur, Adam Nahum. Triviality of quantum trajectories close to a directed percolation transition. Physical Review B, 2023, 107 (22), pp.224303. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevB.107.224303⟩. ⟨hal-03933149⟩
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