Generation of Volume-Law Entanglement by Local-Measurement-Only Quantum Dynamics

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14329v2
• Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2025 13:43:37 GMT
• Title: Generation of Volume-Law Entanglement by Local-Measurement-Only Quantum Dynamics
• Authors: Surajit Bera, Igor V. Gornyi, Sumilan Banerjee, Yuval Gefen,
• Abstract summary: We show that volume-law entangled states can be generated through local, non-random, yet non-commuting measurements.<n>We find that such large-entanglement generation can be achieved using only the measurements of one-body operators.
• Score: 0.1599940751288351
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Repeated local measurements typically have adversarial effects on entangling unitary dynamics, as local measurements usually degrade entanglement. However, recent works on measurement-only dynamics have shown that strongly entangled states can be generated solely through non-commuting random multi-site and multi-spin projective measurements. In this work, we explore a generalized measurement setup in a system without intrinsic unitary dynamics and show that volume-law entangled states can be generated through local, non-random, yet non-commuting measurements. Specifically, we construct a one-dimensional model comprising a main fermionic chain and an auxiliary (ancilla) chain, where generalized measurements are performed by locally coupling the system to detector qubits. Our results demonstrate that long-time states with volume-law entanglement or mutual information are generated between different parts of the main chain purely through non-unitary measurement dynamics. Remarkably, we find that such large-entanglement generation can be achieved using only the measurements of one-body operators. Moreover, we show that measurements of non-local higher-body operators can be used to control and reduce entanglement generation by introducing kinetic constraints to the dynamics. We discuss the statistics of entanglement measures along the quantum trajectories, the approach to stationary distributions of entanglement or long-time steady states, and the associated notions of limited ergodicity in the measurement-only dynamics. Our findings highlight the potential of non-random measurement protocols for controlled entanglement generation and the study of non-unitary many-body dynamics.

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