Strong-to-weak symmetry breaking in monitored dipole conserving quantum circuits

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2512.14830v1
• Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2025 19:00:04 GMT
• Title: Strong-to-weak symmetry breaking in monitored dipole conserving quantum circuits
• Authors: Caterina Zerba, Sarang Gopalakrishnan, Michael Knap,
• Abstract summary: We explore the information-theoretic phases of monitored quantum circuits subject to dynamics that conserves both charge and dipole moment.<n>This spontaneous symmetry breaking has an information-theoretic interpretation in terms of whether one can learn global charges from local measurements.<n>In two dimensions, the low-measurement phase is an exotic critical phase with anisotropic spacetime scaling, analogous to a smectic liquid crystal.
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• Abstract: We explore the information-theoretic phases of monitored quantum circuits subject to dynamics that conserves both charge and dipole moment, as well as measurements of the local charge density. Explicitly, both charge and dipole-moment conservation are strong symmetries, but under the dynamics they can be spontaneously broken to weak symmetries: this spontaneous symmetry breaking has an information-theoretic interpretation in terms of whether one can learn global charges from local measurements. We find a rich phase diagram: in one spatial dimension, charge is always easy to learn, while dipole moment can be either easy or hard. In two dimensions, we find three phases: for frequent measurements, both charge and dipole moment are easy to learn; as the measurement rate is decreased, first dipole moment and then charge become hard. In two dimensions, the low-measurement phase is an exotic critical phase with anisotropic spacetime scaling, analogous to a smectic liquid crystal.

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