Phase transitions in first-detection statistics of monitored long-range quantum walks

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2609.10510v1
• Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2026 17:45:58 GMT
• Title: Phase transitions in first-detection statistics of monitored long-range quantum walks
• Abstract summary: In a quantum walk, the first-detection return probability characterizes salient features, determining whether the quantum walk is transient or recurrent.<n>We study the FDRP of quantum walks on a chain where the initial site is stroboscopically monitored by a detector and the walker performs long-range hopping between sites.
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• Abstract: In a quantum walk, the first-detection return probability (FDRP) characterizes salient features, determining whether the quantum walk is transient or recurrent. We study the FDRP of quantum walks on a chain where the initial site is stroboscopically monitored by a detector and the walker performs long-range hopping between sites. We assume that the hopping strength decays with the distance $d$ as $d^{-α}$ and $α\geq 0$ and show that the power-law exponent $α$ critically determines the behavior of the FDRP. The value $α=1$ separates recurrent ($α<1$) from transient ($α>1$) quantum walks through a continuous phase transition in the total detection probability. For $α<1$, strong long-range hopping induces localization, resulting in unit total detection probability. Instead, for $α>1$ the long-range walk is transient and the return probability decays algebraically as a function of time as $t^{-β}$. The associated decay exponent $β$ features nonanalytic points as a function of $α$. Such singularities are not exclusively determined by the low-energy spectrum, but are caused by the interference between infrared and ultraviolet energy modes induced by projective measurements, signalling the emergence of critical behavior intrinsic to the non-unitary dynamics. These dynamics are solely controlled by tuning the long-range exponent $α$ and can thus be experimentally probed in atomic and molecular systems.

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