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20142025
most citedOperator Spreading in Random Unitary Circuits

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33 papers

quant-ph2025★ 6 cited

Designs from magic-augmented Clifford circuits

Yuzhen Zhang, Sagar Vijay, Yingfei Gu +1

We introduce magic-augmented Clifford circuits -- architectures in which Clifford circuits are preceded and/or followed by constant-depth circuits of non-Clifford (``magic") gates…

quant-ph2023★ 1 cited

Universality of the cross entropy in symmetric monitored quantum circuits

Maria Tikhanovskaya, Ali Lavasani, Matthew P. A. Fisher +1

The linear cross-entropy (LXE) has been recently proposed as a scalable probe of the measurement-driven phase transition between volume- and area-law-entangled phases of pure-state…

quant-ph2023

Continuous symmetry breaking in adaptive quantum dynamics

Jacob Hauser, Yaodong Li, Sagar Vijay +1

Adaptive quantum circuits, in which unitary operations, measurements, and feedback are used to steer quantum many-body systems, provide an exciting opportunity to generate new dyna…

quant-ph2023★ 4 cited

Quantum Coding Transitions in the Presence of Boundary Dissipation

Izabella Lovas, Utkarsh Agrawal, Sagar Vijay

We investigate phase transitions in the encoding of quantum information in a quantum many-body system due to the competing effects of unitary scrambling and boundary dissipation. S…

cond-mat.str-el2023★ 60 cited

Mixed-state long-range order and criticality from measurement and feedback

Tsung-Cheng Lu, Zhehao Zhang, Sagar Vijay +1

We propose a general framework for using local measurements, local unitaries, and non-local classical communication to construct quantum channels which can efficiently prepare mixe…

quant-ph2022★ 3 cited

The X-Cube Floquet Code

Zhehao Zhang, David Aasen, Sagar Vijay

Inspired by the coupled-layer construction of the X-Cube model, we introduce the X-Cube Floquet code, a dynamical quantum error-correcting code where the number of encoded logical…

quant-ph2022★ 488 cited

Random Quantum Circuits

Matthew P. A. Fisher, Vedika Khemani, Adam Nahum +1

Quantum circuits -- built from local unitary gates and local measurements -- are a new playground for quantum many-body physics and a tractable setting to explore universal collect…

cond-mat.str-el2022★ 7 cited

Monitored Quantum Dynamics and the Kitaev Spin Liquid

Ali Lavasani, Zhu-Xi Luo, Sagar Vijay

Quantum circuit dynamics with local projective measurements can realize a rich spectrum of entangled states of quantum matter. Motivated by the physics of the Kitaev quantum spin l…

cond-mat.stat-mech2022★ 17 cited

Real-time correlators in chaotic quantum many-body systems

Adam Nahum, Sthitadhi Roy, Sagar Vijay +1

We study real-time local correlators in chaotic quantum many-body systems. These correlators show universal structure at l…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 27 cited

Nanoscale electrostatic control in ultra clean van der Waals heterostructures by local anodic oxidation of graphite gates

Liam A. Cohen, Noah L. Samuelson, Taige Wang +7

In an all-van der Waals heterostructure, the active layer, gate dielectrics and gate electrodes are assembled from two-dimensional crystals that have a low density of atomic defect…

cond-mat.str-el2022★ 22 cited

Characterizing Long-Range Entanglement in a Mixed State Through an Emergent Order on the Entangling Surface

Tsung-Cheng Lu, Sagar Vijay

Topologically-ordered phases of matter at non-zero temperature are conjectured to exhibit universal patterns of long-range entanglement which may be detected by a mixed-state entan…

cond-mat.str-el2021★ 13 cited

Pascal's Triangle Fractal Symmetries

Nayan E. Myerson-Jain, Shang Liu, Wenjie Ji +2

We introduce a model of interacting bosons exhibiting an infinite collection of fractal symmetries -- termed "Pascal's triangle symmetries" -- which provides a natural gener…

cond-mat.str-el2021★ 50 cited

Non-Abelian Hybrid Fracton Orders

Nathanan Tantivasadakarn, Wenjie Ji, Sagar Vijay

We introduce lattice gauge theories which describe three-dimensional, gapped quantum phases exhibiting the phenomenology of both conventional three-dimensional topological orders a…

cond-mat.stat-mech2021★ 69 cited

Entanglement Domain Walls in Monitored Quantum Circuits and the Directed Polymer in a Random Environment

Yaodong Li, Sagar Vijay, Matthew P. A. Fisher

Monitored quantum dynamics reveal quantum state trajectories which exhibit a rich phenomenology of entanglement structures, including a transition from a weakly-monitored volume la…

cond-mat.str-el2021★ 34 cited

Hybrid Fracton Phases: Parent Orders for Liquid and Non-Liquid Quantum Phases

Nathanan Tantivasadakarn, Wenjie Ji, Sagar Vijay

We introduce hybrid fracton orders: three-dimensional gapped quantum phases that exhibit the phenomenology of both conventional three-dimensional topological orders and fracton ord…

cond-mat.str-el2020★ 45 cited

Nonergodic Quantum Dynamics from Deformations of Classical Cellular Automata

Thomas Iadecola, Sagar Vijay

Classical reversible cellular automata (CAs), which describe the discrete-time dynamics of classical degrees of freedom in a finite state-space, can exhibit exact, nonthermal quant…

quant-ph2020★ 38 cited

Measurement-Driven Phase Transition within a Volume-Law Entangled Phase

Sagar Vijay

We identify a phase transition between two kinds of volume-law entangled phases in non-local but few-body unitary dynamics with local projective measurements. In one phase, a finit…

cond-mat.stat-mech2020★ 196 cited

Self-Organized Error Correction in Random Unitary Circuits with Measurement

Ruihua Fan, Sagar Vijay, Ashvin Vishwanath +1

Random measurements have been shown to induce a phase transition in an extended quantum system evolving under chaotic unitary dynamics, when the strength of measurements exceeds a…

cond-mat.str-el2019★ 31 cited

Searching for Fracton Orders via Symmetry Defect Condensation

Nathanan Tantivasadakarn, Sagar Vijay

We propose a set of constraints on the ground-state wavefunctions of fracton phases, which provide a possible generalization of the string-net equations used to characterize topolo…

cond-mat.stat-mech2019★ 117 cited

Anomalous Subdiffusion from Subsystem Symmetries

Jason Iaconis, Sagar Vijay, Rahul Nandkishore

We introduce quantum circuits in two and three spatial dimensions which are classically simulable, despite producing a high degree of operator entanglement. We provide a partial ch…

quant-ph2018★ 14 cited

Scalable Fermionic Error Correction in Majorana Surface Codes

Oscar Viyuela, Sagar Vijay, Liang Fu

We study the error correcting properties of Majorana Surface Codes (MSC), topological quantum codes constructed out of interacting Majorana fermions, which can be used to store qua…

cond-mat.str-el2018★ 81 cited

Pinch Point Singularities of Tensor Spin Liquids

Abhinav Prem, Sagar Vijay, Yang-Zhi Chou +2

Recently, a new class of three-dimensional spin liquid models have been theoretically discovered, which feature generalized Coulomb phases of emergent symmetric tensor gauge…

cond-mat.str-el2018★ 3 cited

Finite-Temperature Scrambling of a Random Hamiltonian

Sagar Vijay, Ashvin Vishwanath

We study the finite-temperature scrambling behavior of a quantum system described by a Hamiltonian chosen from a random matrix ensemble. This effectively (0+1)-dimensional model ad…

cond-mat.str-el2017★ 41 cited

A Generalization of Non-Abelian Anyons in Three Dimensions

Sagar Vijay, Liang Fu

We introduce both an exactly solvable model and a coupled-layer construction for an exotic, three-dimensional phase of matter with immobile topological excitations that carry a pro…