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Rui-Jing Guo

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Super-Logarithmic Entanglement Scaling in a Monitored Superconducting Chain

We study the entanglement dynamics of a one-dimensional spinful $s$-wave superconductor subjected to local continuous measurements. In the rare-measurement regime, we derive a replicated Keldysh non-linear sigma model (NLSM) to describe the steady-state entanglement. Within this field-theoretic framework, the interplay between measurement dephasing and superconducting pairing constrains the low-energy, long-wavelength fluctuations to an $\mathrm{SO(R)}$ target manifold. A one-loop renormalization-group analysis shows that the theory develops a weak-anti-localization flow, stabilizing a critical phase with super-logarithmic scaling of the steady-state entanglement. Our field-theoretic results explain the numerical evidence reported in the companion Letter [arXiv:2604.04375] and demonstrate that such a critical phase can emerge in a one-dimensional topologically trivial superconductor without relying on topological protection.

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Measurement-enhanced entanglement in a monitored superconducting chain

A common view in monitored quantum dynamics is that local measurements suppress entanglement growth. We show that this intuition can fail in a one-dimensional spinful fermionic chain governed by a BCS Hamiltonian with pairing strength $\Delta$ and subject to continuous, on-site, spin-resolved charge measurements at rate $\gamma$. Using free-fermion simulations and quasiparticle analysis, we show that pairing suppresses entanglement growth, while measurements suppress pairing. Their competition yields measurement-enhanced entanglement: for $\Delta>0$, the steady-state entanglement $\mathcal{S}_s$ increases with $\gamma$ over a finite interval $0<\gamma<\gamma_{\mathrm{peak}}$. This occurs because stronger measurements suppress pairing correlations, which would otherwise suppress entanglement growth. Using a nonlinear sigma-model calculation and free-fermion simulations, we provide evidence that for $\Delta>0$ and small but finite $\gamma$, the steady-state entanglement scales as $\mathcal{S}_s(L)\sim \ln^2 L$. This implies that, in this setting, measurement-enhanced entanglement does not persist in the thermodynamic limit.

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