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Kazuki Yamamoto1,2,3,4, Ryusuke Hamazaki5
1Osaka Metropolitan University, Research Institute for Innovation and Co-Creation, Sakai, Osaka 599-8531, Japan.
Abstract:
We reveal a nontrivial crossover of subsystem fluctuations of quantum jumps in continuously monitored many-body systems, which have a trivial maximally mixed state as a steady-state density matrix. While the fluctuations exhibit the standard volume law ∝L following Poissonian statistics for sufficiently weak measurement strength, anomalous yet universal scaling law ∝L^{α} (α∼2.7 up to L=20) indicating super-Poissonian statistics appears for strong measurement strength. This drastically affects the precision of estimating the rate of quantum jumps: for strong (weak) measurement, the estimation uncertainty is enhanced (suppressed) as the system size increases. We demonstrate that the anomalous scaling of the subsystem fluctuation originates from an integrated many-body autocorrelation function and that the transient dynamics contributes to the scaling law rather than the Liouvillian gap. The measurement-induced crossover is accessed only from the postselection-free information obtained from the time and the position of quantum jumps and can be tested in ultracold atom experiments.
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