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【凝聚态物理-北京大学论坛 2025年第28期(总639期)】Mixed-State Measurement-Induced Phase Transitions in Imaginary-Time Dynamics
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主讲人: 严正 助理教授 西湖大学
地点: 物理大楼中212报告厅
时间: 2025年12月11日(周四)下午3:00-4:30
主持 联系人: 陈基 ji.chen@pku.edu.cn
主讲人简介: 严正,西湖大学物理系助理教授/特聘研究员。2013年获大连理工大学学士学位,2019年获得复旦大学理论物理博士学位。2019年至2023年在香港大学工作,历任博士后研究员和研究助理教授。2023年全职加入西湖大学,组建量子多体计算实验室,课题组主要开展量子多体理论和数值计算方向的研究,以及与之相关的量子模拟/计算、量子材料交叉学科研究,并发展相应的多体算法。目前发表约50篇SCI论文,包括9篇NC/PRL/PRX Quantum等。

摘要 (Abstract) Mixed-state phase transitions have recently attracted growing attention as a new frontier in nonequilibrium quantum matter and quantum information. In this work, we introduce the measurement-dressed imaginary-time evolution (MDITE) as a novel framework to explore mixed-state quantum phases and decoherence-driven criticality. In this setup, alternating imaginary-time evolution and projective measurements generate a competition between coherence-restoring dynamics and decoherence-inducing events. While reminiscent of monitored unitary circuits, MDITE fundamentally differs in that the physics is encoded in decoherent mixed states rather than in quantum trajectories. We demonstrate that this interplay gives rise to a new class of mixed-state phase transitions, using numerical simulations of the one-dimensional transverse-field Ising model and the two-dimensional dimerized Heisenberg model. Furthermore, we provide a diagrammatic representation of the evolving state, which naturally enables efficient studies of MDITE with quantum Monte Carlo and other many-body numerical methods, thereby extending investigations of mixed-state phase transitions to large-scale and higher-dimensional Hamiltonians. Our results highlight MDITE as a powerful paradigm for investigating non-unitary dynamics and the fundamental role of decoherence in many-body quantum systems.