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Neha Nirbhan

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Dynamics of entanglement entropy for a locally monitored lattice gauge theory

The $1+1$ dimensional $Z_2$ gauge theory is the simplest model that allows for quantum computation or quantum simulation to probe the fundamental aspects of a gauge theory coupled with dynamical fermions. To reliably benchmark such a system, it is crucial to understand the non-unitary quantum dynamics arising from the underlying non-Hermitian evolution and to model the effects of quantum measurements. In this work, we study post-selected filtering dynamics of physical observables for a $\mathbb {Z} _2$ gauge theory. Tensor network calculations are performed to dynamically probe entanglement entropy at larger lattice sizes. We report that projective measurement of local and diagonal observables (electric and mass energy densities) in the computational basis demonstrates the absence of any measurement-induced phase transition like phenomenon, as indicated by the system-size independence of the late-time saturation value of the bipartite entanglement entropy.

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Effects of monitoring on entanglement dynamics for $1+1$D $\mathbb Z_2$ lattice gauge theory

The $(1+1)$-dimensional $\mathbb Z_2$ gauge theory is the simplest model that allows for quantum simulation to probe the fundamental aspects of a gauge theory coupled with dynamical fermions. To reliably benchmark such a system, it is crucial to understand the non-unitary quantum dynamics arising from effective non-Hermitian evolution and post-selected monitoring protocols. This work focuses on the post-selected non-Hermitian filtering dynamics of a $\mathbb Z_2$ gauge theory, where the non-Hermitian terms are associated with local and non-local gauge-invariant operators naturally present in the theory. We interpret the resulting dynamics as post-selected filtering, where different operator sectors are coupled to loss channels with different rates. This gives a unified framework for both the local electric flux and particle-number terms and the non-local mesonic hopping term. Tensor network calculations are performed to probe the effect of the filtering for larger lattice sizes (up to 256-site systems). Using Matrix Product State calculations, the dynamics of entanglement entropy are studied as a function of the filtering rate and the coupling constant. We find that, under both local and non-local filtering, the late-time saturation value of the bipartite entanglement entropy remains independent of system size, providing no evidence of a measurement-induced phase transition-like phenomenon in the post-selected dynamics across the range of filtering strengths, evolution times, and system sizes considered here.

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Dynamics of monitored SSH Model in Krylov Space: From Complexity to Quantum Fisher Information

In this paper, we investigate the dynamics of a non-Hermitian SSH model that arises out of the no-click limit of a monitored SSH model in the Krylov space. We find that the saturation timescale of the complexity associated with the spread of the state in the Krylov subspace increases with the measurement rate, and late time behaviour differs across the $\mathrm{PT}$ symmetry transition point. Furthermore, extending the notion of this complexity for subsystems in Krylov space, we find that the scaling of its late time value with subsystem size shows a discontinuous jump across the $\mathrm{PT}$ transition point, indicating that it can be used as a suitable order parameter for such transition but not for the measurement-induced transition. Finally, we show that a generalized measure in the Krylov subspace, which contains information about the correlation landscape, such as Quantum Fisher information, which also possesses some structural similarity with the complexity functional, can be a promising probe of the measurement-induced phase.

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