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Transitions in the learnability of global charges from local measurements.

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Abstract

We consider monitored quantum systems with a global conserved charge, and ask how efficiently an observer ("eavesdropper") can learn the global charge of such systems from local projective measurements. We find phase transitions as a function of the measurement rate, depending on how much information about the quantum dynamics the eavesdropper has access to. For random unitary circuits with U(1) symmetry, we present an optimal classical classifier to reconstruct the global charge from local measurement outcomes only. We demonstrate the existence of phase transitions in the performance of this classifier in the thermodynamic limit. We also study numerically improved classifiers by including some knowledge about the unitary gates pattern.

Publication: arXiv:2206.12429

Presenters

  • Utkarsh Agrawal

    University of California, Santa Barbara

Authors

  • Utkarsh Agrawal

    University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Romain Vasseur

    University of Massachusetts Amherst

  • Sarang Gopalakrishnan

    Princeton University, The Pennsylvania State University, Penn State University, Princeton

  • Andrew C Potter

    University of British Columbia

  • Fergus Barratt

    University of Massachusetts Amherst