Theory of Magic Phase Transitions in Encoding-Decoding Circuits

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2603.00235v1
• Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2026 19:00:03 GMT
• Title: Theory of Magic Phase Transitions in Encoding-Decoding Circuits
• Authors: Piotr Sierant, Xhek Turkeshi,
• Abstract summary: We analytically show that the behavior of magic resources is fundamentally dictated by the chosen measurement protocol.<n>We reveal that magic phase transitions are actually direct manifestations of error-resilience thresholds.
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• Abstract: Quantum magic resources, or nonstabilizerness, are a central ingredient for universal quantum computation. In noisy many-body systems, the interplay between these resources and errors leads to sharp magic phase transitions. However, the microscopic mechanism behind these critical phenomena is still an open question, especially since early empirical evidence showed conflicting results regarding their universality classes. In this work, we provide a comprehensive picture of magic phase transitions for the class of encoding-decoding quantum circuits to resolve these ambiguities. We analytically show that the behavior of magic resources is fundamentally dictated by the chosen measurement protocol. When we fix, or post-select, the class of measurement syndromes, the magic transition inherits the universal features of the error-resilience phase transition in the circuits. Interestingly, this clean transition survives even for fully random Haar encoders showing that it is a consequence of initial's state retrieval, and not an artifact of the Clifford encoders. On the other hand, if we consider realistic Born-rule sampling, the intrinsic statistical fluctuations of a given syndrome measurement act as a relevant perturbation. This brings in strong finite-size drifts and an apparent multifractality, which end up altering the critical behavior of the system. We reveal that magic phase transitions are actually direct manifestations of error-resilience thresholds, rather than independent critical phenomena, reconciling conflicting observations from the earlier literature. Ultimately, our framework clarifies how the quantum computational power can survive, or be irreversibly destroyed, due to the competition between scrambling, measurements, and errors.

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