arXiv · 2608.21578
Scaling vs entanglement in measurement-induced phase transition for non-integrable systems
Abstract
We find that the measurement-induced phase transition generated by deterministic global measurements, previously observed in the integrable transverse-field Ising model (TFIM), persists in non-integrable variants of the same. To address this question, we consider the TFIM with longitudinal field and the axial next-nearest-neighbor Ising (ANNNI) model. We show that both the survival probability and the bipartite entanglement entropy consistently capture a transition between area-law and volume-law entangled phases for two distinct initial states: a product state with all spins polarized along the transverse direction and a Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) state. Finite-size scaling reveals a pronounced initial state dependence: for the polarized product state, the transition point follows an inverse-square-root scaling with system size in both non-integrable models, consistent with the integrable TFIM, whereas for the GHZ initial state, it deviates from this scaling and approaches zero considerably more slowly in the non-integrable models than in the integrable TFIM. These results establish the robustness of measurement-induced transitions under deterministic measurements against integrability breaking while highlighting the crucial role of the initial state in governing their scaling behavior.
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Paranjoy Chaki, Protyush Nandi, Subinay Dasgupta, Ujjwal Sen. 2026-08-21. Scaling vs entanglement in measurement-induced phase transition for non-integrable systems. https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.21578
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