Nonlinear sigma models for monitored dynamics of free fermions

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.12820v2
• Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2023 16:48:41 GMT
• Title: Nonlinear sigma models for monitored dynamics of free fermions
• Authors: Michele Fava, Lorenzo Piroli, Tobias Swann, Denis Bernard, Adam Nahum
• Abstract summary: We derive descriptions for measurement-induced phase transitions in free fermion systems. We use the replica trick to map the dynamics to the imaginary time evolution of an effective spin chain. This is a nonlinear sigma model for an $Ntimes N$ matrix, in the replica limit $Nto 1$.
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• Abstract: We derive field theory descriptions for measurement-induced phase transitions in free fermion systems. We focus on a multi-flavor Majorana chain, undergoing Hamiltonian evolution with continuous monitoring of local fermion parity operators. Using the replica trick, we map the dynamics to the imaginary time evolution of an effective spin chain, and use the number of flavors as a large parameter for a controlled derivation of the effective field theory. This is a nonlinear sigma model for an orthogonal $N\times N$ matrix, in the replica limit $N\to 1$. (On a boundary of the phase diagram, another sigma model with higher symmetry applies.) Together with known results for the renormalization-group beta function, this derivation establishes the existence of stable phases -- nontrivially entangled and disentangled respectively -- in the physically-relevant replica limit $N\to 1$. In the nontrivial phase, an asymptotically exact calculation shows that the bipartite entanglement entropy for a system of size $L$ scales as $(\log L)^2$, in contrast to findings in previously-studied models. Varying the relative strength of Hamiltonian evolution and monitoring, as well as a dimerization parameter, the model's phase diagram contains transitions out of the nontrivial phase, which we map to vortex-unbinding transitions in the sigma model, and also contains separate critical points on the measurement-only axis. We highlight the close analogies as well as the differences with the replica approach to Anderson transitions in disordered systems.

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