Nonuniversal entanglement level statistics in projection-driven quantum circuits

Autor: Eduardo R. Mucciolo, Claudio Chamon, Andrei E. Ruckenstein, Justin Reyes, Lei Zhang, Stefanos Kourtis
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Physical Review B. 101
ISSN: 2469-9969
2469-9950
DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.101.235104
Popis: We study the level-spacing statistics in the entanglement spectrum of output states of random universal quantum circuits where qubits are subject to a finite probability of projection to the computational basis at each time step. We encounter two phase transitions with increasing projection rate: The first is the volume-to-area law transition observed in quantum circuits with projective measurements; The second separates the pure Poisson level statistics phase at large projective measurement rates from a regime of residual level repulsion in the entanglement spectrum within the area-law phase, characterized by non-universal level spacing statistics that interpolates between the Wigner-Dyson and Poisson distributions. By applying a tensor network contraction algorithm introduced in Ref. [1] to the circuit spacetime, we identify this second projective-measurement-driven transition as a percolation transition of entangled bonds. The same behavior is observed in both circuits of random two-qubit unitaries and circuits of universal gate sets, including the set implemented by Google in its Sycamore circuits.
7 pages, 7 figures
Databáze: OpenAIRE