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Autores principales: Tang, Yicheng, Kattel, Pradip, Pal, Arijeet, Yuzbashyan, Emil A., Pixley, J. H.
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Publicado: 2025
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Acceso en línea:https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.02100
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author Tang, Yicheng
Kattel, Pradip
Pal, Arijeet
Yuzbashyan, Emil A.
Pixley, J. H.
author_facet Tang, Yicheng
Kattel, Pradip
Pal, Arijeet
Yuzbashyan, Emil A.
Pixley, J. H.
contents We investigate the dynamics of strongly disordered spin chains in the presence of random local measurements. By studying the transverse-field Ising model with a site-dependent random longitudinal field and an effective $l$-bit many-body localized Hamiltonian, we show that the prethermal and MBL regimes are unstable to local measurements along any direction. Any non-zero measurement density induces a volume-law entangled phase with a subsequent phase transition into an area-law state as the measurement rate is further increased. The critical measurement rate $p_c$, where the transition occurs, is exponentially small in the strength of disorder $W$ and the average overlap between the measurement operator and the local integrals of motion $O$ as $p_c \sim \exp[-αW/(1-O^2)]$. In the measurement-induced volume-law phase, the saturation time scales as $t_s \sim L $, contrasting the exponentially slow saturation $t_s \sim e^{aL}$ in the prethermal and MBL regimes at $p = 0$.
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spellingShingle The measurement-induced phase transition in strongly disordered spin chains
Tang, Yicheng
Kattel, Pradip
Pal, Arijeet
Yuzbashyan, Emil A.
Pixley, J. H.
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Statistical Mechanics
Quantum Physics
We investigate the dynamics of strongly disordered spin chains in the presence of random local measurements. By studying the transverse-field Ising model with a site-dependent random longitudinal field and an effective $l$-bit many-body localized Hamiltonian, we show that the prethermal and MBL regimes are unstable to local measurements along any direction. Any non-zero measurement density induces a volume-law entangled phase with a subsequent phase transition into an area-law state as the measurement rate is further increased. The critical measurement rate $p_c$, where the transition occurs, is exponentially small in the strength of disorder $W$ and the average overlap between the measurement operator and the local integrals of motion $O$ as $p_c \sim \exp[-αW/(1-O^2)]$. In the measurement-induced volume-law phase, the saturation time scales as $t_s \sim L $, contrasting the exponentially slow saturation $t_s \sim e^{aL}$ in the prethermal and MBL regimes at $p = 0$.
title The measurement-induced phase transition in strongly disordered spin chains
topic Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Statistical Mechanics
Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.02100