Theory of Free Fermions under Random Projective Measurements

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作者
Poboiko, Igor [1 ]
Poepperl, Paul
Gornyi, Igor V.
Mirlin, Alexander D.
机构
[1] Karlsruhe Inst Technol, Inst Quantum Mat & Technol, D-76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
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SIGMA-MODELS;
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10.1103/PhysRevX.13.041046
中图分类号
O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
We develop an analytical approach to the study of one-dimensional free fermions subject to random projective measurements of local site occupation numbers, based on the Keldysh path-integral formalism and replica trick. In the limit of rare measurements, gamma/J << 1 (where. is measurement rate per site and J is hopping constant in the tight-binding model), we derive a nonlinear sigma model (NLSM) as an effective field theory of the problem. Its replica-symmetric sector is described by a U(2)/U(1)xU(1) similar or equal to S2 sigma model with diffusive behavior, and the replica-asymmetric sector is a two-dimensional NLSM defined on SU(R) manifold with the replica limit R -> 1. On the Gaussian level, valid in the limit gamma/J -> 0, this model predicts a logarithmic behavior for the second cumulant of number of particles in a subsystem and for the entanglement entropy. However, the one-loop renormalization group analysis allows us to demonstrate that this logarithmic growth saturates at a finite value similar to(J/gamma)(2) even for rare measurements, which corresponds to the area-law phase. This implies the absence of a measurement-induced entanglement phase transition for free fermions. The crossover between logarithmic growth and saturation, however, happens at exponentially large scale, ln l(corr) similar to J/. This makes this crossover very sharp as a function of the measurement frequency gamma/J, which can be easily confused with a transition from the logarithmic to area law in finite-size numerical calculations. We have performed a careful numerical analysis, which supports our analytical predictions.
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