1Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-1560, USA
2Microsoft Quantum and Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA 98052, USA
3Station Q, Microsoft Research, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-6105, USA
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Abstract
Motivated by recent work showing that a quantum error correcting code can be generated by hybrid dynamics of unitaries and measurements, we study the long time behavior of such systems. We demonstrate that even in the “mixed” phase, a maximally mixed initial density matrix is purified on a time scale equal to the Hilbert space dimension (i.e., exponential in system size), albeit with noisy dynamics at intermediate times which we connect to Dyson Brownian motion. In contrast, we show that free fermion systems $—$ i.e., ones where the unitaries are generated by quadratic Hamiltonians and the measurements are of fermion bilinears $—$ purify in a time quadratic in the system size. In particular, a volume law phase for the entanglement entropy cannot be sustained in a free fermion system.
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