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Quantifying measurement-induced quantum-to-classical crossover using an open-system entanglement measure

Published 6 Apr 2023 in quant-ph | (2304.02965v2)

Abstract: The evolution of a quantum system subject to measurements can be described by stochastic quantum trajectories of pure states. Instead, the ensemble average over trajectories is a mixed state evolving via a master equation. Both descriptions lead to the same expectation values for linear observables. Recently, there is growing interest in the average entanglement appearing during quantum trajectories. The entanglement is a nonlinear observable that is sensitive to so-called measurement-induced phase transitions, namely, transitions from a system-size dependent phase to a quantum Zeno phase with area-law entanglement. Intriguingly, the mixed steady-state description of these systems is insensitive to this phase transition. Together with the difficulty of quantifying the mixed state entanglement, this favors quantum trajectories for the description of the quantum measurement process. Here, we study the entanglement of a single particle under continuous measurements (using the newly developed configuration coherence) in both the mixed state and the quantum trajectories descriptions. In both descriptions, we find that the entanglement at intermediate time scales shows the same qualitative behavior as a function of the measurement strength. The entanglement engenders a notion of coherence length, whose dependence on the measurement strength is explained by a cascade of underdamped-to-overdamped transitions. This demonstrates that measurement-induced entanglement dynamics can be captured by mixed states.

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