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Piotr Sierant1,2, Xhek Turkeshi1,3
1ICTP-The Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics, Strada Costiera 11, 34151 Trieste, Italy.
Abstract:
We investigate the structure of many-body wave functions of 1D quantum circuits with local measurements employing the participation entropies. The leading term in system size dependence of participation entropy indicates a model-dependent multifractal scaling of the wave functions at any nonzero measurement rate. The subleading term contains universal information about measurement-induced phase transitions and plays the role of an order parameter, being constant nonzero in the error-correcting phase and vanishing in the quantum Zeno phase. We provide robust numerical evidence investigating a variety of quantum many-body systems and provide an analytical interpretation of this behavior expressing the participation entropy in terms of partition functions of classical statistical models in 2D.
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