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20102026
most citedEntanglement transition in a monitored free fermion chain -- from extended criticality to area law

338 citations · 1.9k across the 43 of their papers we have counts for

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44 papers

quant-ph2026

Independent density and coherence skin effects in adaptive fermion circuits

Karim Chahine, Markus Siegl, Michael Buchhold

Adaptive circuits use measurements and outcome-conditioned feedback to implement nonreciprocal dynamics without postselection. We show that fermion circuits host independently tuna…

quant-ph2025★ 1 cited

Spectral Transitions of the Entanglement Hamiltonian in Monitored Free Fermions

Karim Chahine, Michael Buchhold

We numerically investigate measurement-induced phase transitions in monitored free fermions through the spectral and eigenstate properties of the entanglement Hamiltonian. By analy…

cond-mat.stat-mech2025

Monitored interacting Dirac fermions

Thomas Martin Müller, Michael Buchhold, Sebastian Diehl

We analytically study interacting Dirac fermions, described by the Thirring model, under weak local particle number measurements with monitoring rate . This system maps to a bos…

quant-ph2024★ 6 cited

Entanglement dynamics in monitored Kitaev circuits: loop models, symmetry classification, and quantum Lifshitz scaling

Kai Klocke, Daniel Simm, Guo-Yi Zhu +2

Quantum circuits offer a versatile platform for simulating digital quantum dynamics and uncovering novel states of non-equilibrium quantum matter. One principal example are measure…

cond-mat.stat-mech2024★ 5 cited

Power-law entanglement and Hilbert space fragmentation in non-reciprocal quantum circuits

Kai Klocke, Joel E. Moore, Michael Buchhold

Quantum circuits utilizing measurement to evolve a quantum wave function offer a new and rich playground to engineer unconventional entanglement dynamics. Here we introduce a hybri…

cond-mat.stat-mech2023★ 63 cited

Universality in driven open quantum matter

Lukas M. Sieberer, Michael Buchhold, Jamir Marino +1

Universality is a powerful concept, which enables making qualitative and quantitative predictions in systems with extensively many degrees of freedom. It finds realizations in almo…

quant-ph2023

Robustness and measurement-induced percolation of the surface code

Thomas Botzung, Michael Buchhold, Sebastian Diehl +1

We examine the robustness of a logical qubit in the planar surface code subject to 'measurement-errors', i.e., to local Pauli measurements at known positions. This yields a measure…

cond-mat.stat-mech2023★ 7 cited

Field theory for the dynamics of the open model

Johannes Lang, Michael Buchhold, Sebastian Diehl

A field theory approach for the nonequilibrium relaxation dynamics in open systems at late times is developed. In the absence of conservation laws, all excitations are subject to d…

cond-mat.str-el2023★ 37 cited

Entanglement phases, localization and multifractality of monitored free fermions in two dimensions

K. Chahine, M. Buchhold

We investigate the entanglement structure and wave function characteristics of continuously monitored free fermions with U-symmetry in two spatial dimensions (2D). By deriving…

cond-mat.stat-mech2023★ 41 cited

Majorana Loop Models for Measurement-Only Quantum Circuits

Kai Klocke, Michael Buchhold

Projective measurements in random quantum circuits lead to a rich breadth of entanglement phases and extend the realm of non-unitary quantum dynamics. Here we explore the connectio…

cond-mat.dis-nn2022★ 9 cited

Revealing measurement-induced phase transitions by pre-selection

M. Buchhold, T. Müller, S. Diehl

Pushing forward the understanding of general non-unitary dynamics in controlled quantum platforms has been fueled by the recent discovery of measurement-induced phases and phase tr…

cond-mat.stat-mech2022★ 46 cited

Topological order and entanglement dynamics in the measurement-only XZZX quantum code

Kai Klocke, Michael Buchhold

We examine the dynamics of a -dimensional measurement-only circuit defined by the stabilizers of the [[5,1,3]] quantum error correcting code interrupted by single-qubit Paul…

cond-mat.stat-mech2022★ 71 cited

Monitored Open Fermion Dynamics: Exploring the Interplay of Measurement, Decoherence, and Free Hamiltonian Evolution

B. Ladewig, S. Diehl, M. Buchhold

The interplay of unitary evolution and local measurements in many-body systems gives rise to a stochastic state evolution and to measurement-induced phase transitions in the pure s…

cond-mat.str-el2021★ 12 cited

Decoupling of static and dynamic criticality in a driven Mott insulator

A. de la Torre, K. L. Seyler, M. Buchhold +12

Dynamically driven interacting quantum many-body systems have the potential to exhibit properties that defy the laws of equilibrium statistical mechanics. A widely studied model is…

cond-mat.dis-nn2021★ 6 cited

Localization crossover and subdiffusive transport in a classical facilitated network model of a disordered, interacting quantum spin chain

Kai Klocke, Christopher David White, Michael Buchhold

We consider the random-field Heisenberg model, a paradigmatic model for many-body localization (MBL), and add a Markovian dephasing bath coupled to the Anderson orbitals of the mod…

cond-mat.stat-mech2021★ 57 cited

Continuous Gaussian Measurements of the Free Boson CFT: A model for Exactly Solvable and Detectable Measurement-Induced Dynamics

Y. Minoguchi, P. Rabl, M. Buchhold

Hybrid evolution protocols, composed of unitary dynamics and repeated, weak or projective measurements, give rise to new, intriguing quantum phenomena, including entanglement phase…

cond-mat.stat-mech2021★ 167 cited

Measurement-induced dark state phase transitions in long-ranged fermion systems

Thomas Müller, Sebastian Diehl, Michael Buchhold

We identify an unconventional algebraic scaling phase in the quantum dynamics of free fermions with long range hopping, which are exposed to continuous local density measurements.…

cond-mat.stat-mech2021★ 6 cited

A learning algorithm with emergent scaling behavior for classifying phase transitions

Nishad Maskara, Michael Buchhold, Manuel Endres +1

Machine learning-inspired techniques have emerged as a new paradigm for analysis of phase transitions in quantum matter. In this work, we introduce a supervised learning algorithm…

cond-mat.stat-mech2021★ 218 cited

Effective Theory for the Measurement-Induced Phase Transition of Dirac Fermions

M. Buchhold, Y. Minoguchi, A. Altland +1

A wave function exposed to measurements undergoes pure state dynamics, with deterministic unitary and probabilistic measurement induced state updates, defining a quantum trajectory…

cond-mat.str-el2020★ 26 cited

Signatures of ultrafast reversal of excitonic order in TaNiSe

H. Ning, O. Mehio, M. Buchhold +4

In the presence of electron-phonon coupling, an excitonic insulator harbors two degenerate ground states described by an Ising-type order parameter. Starting from a microscopic Ham…

cond-mat.quant-gas2020★ 17 cited

Hydrodynamic stabilization of self-organized criticality in a driven Rydberg gas

K. Klocke, T. M. Wintermantel, G. Lochead +2

Signatures of self-organized criticality (SOC) have recently been observed in an ultracold atomic gas under continuous laser excitation to strongly-interacting Rydberg states [S. H…

physics.atom-ph2020★ 23 cited

Epidemic growth and Griffiths effects on an emergent network of excited atoms

T. M. Wintermantel, M. Buchhold, S. Shevate +5

Whether it be physical, biological or social processes, complex systems exhibit dynamics that are exceedingly difficult to understand or predict from underlying principles. Here we…

cond-mat.stat-mech2020★ 338 cited

Entanglement transition in a monitored free fermion chain -- from extended criticality to area law

Ori Alberton, Michael Buchhold, Sebastian Diehl

We analyze the quantum trajectory dynamics of free fermions subject to continuous monitoring. For weak monitoring, we identify a novel dynamical regime of subextensive entanglement…

cond-mat.dis-nn2020★ 2 cited

Quantum dynamics in strongly driven random dipolar magnets

M. Buchhold, C. S. Tang, D. M. Silevitch +2

The random dipolar magnet LiHoYF enters a strongly frustrated regime for small Ho concentrations with . In this regime, the magnetic moments of the H…