Free-Fermion Measurement-Induced Volume- to Area-Law Entanglement Transition in the Presence of Fermion Interactions

Abstract

At a generic volume- to area-law entanglement transition in a many-body system, quantum chaos is arrested. We argue that this tends to imply the vanishing of a certain "mass" term in the field theory of the measurement-induced phase transition (MIPT) for monitored, interacting fermions. To explore this idea, we consider the MIPT with no conserved quantities that describes 1D monitored, interacting Majorana fermions in class DIII. This is the most general problem of interacting fermions with weak fermion parity measurements. Without interactions, it is known that a noninteracting MIPT separates the area-law phase from a log-enhanced "thermal metal" phase at sufficiently weak monitoring. We conjecture that the MIPT with interactions is the same as the noninteracting one in this case; the volume-law phase arises through the dangerously irrelevant mass. The physical picture is that the mass represents a local Fermi's golden rule interparticle scattering rate density that is tantamount to the entangling rate density. The latter must vanish continuously at a continuous MIPT. On the other hand, the field theory capturing the MIPT for monitored fermions with additional continuous symmetries is expected to be different, because the interactions introduce additional terms associated to conserved Noether currents. We propose numerical tests of our conjecture. In addition, we analytically identify a candidate noninteracting critical point representing the MIPT, using a controlled $\epsilon$-expansion.

9+5 pages, 2 figures; v2: 14 pages, 3 figures, published version

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