Magic & Participation Entropy at Measurement-Induced Transitions
Random Clifford Circuits • Quantum Automata • Participation Entropy
Random Clifford and quantum automaton circuit architectures used for the
participation-entropy analysis.
Studies participation entropy in random Clifford and quantum automaton circuits, using these
circuit architectures to diagnose measurement-induced critical behavior.
Hybrid circuit layer and its classical plaquette-model phase correspondence.
Develops a classical plaquette-model formulation for hybrid quantum circuits, making the
local multi-spin interactions and finite-temperature phase structure explicit.
Toric-code checks, logical operators, and the random coherent-error model.
Studies how syndrome measurements respond to coherent unitary errors and identifies a
transition where logical information stops being efficiently recoverable.
RTPM/RXPM phase diagram with symmetry-operator snapshots across the transition.
Relates randomized plaquette models to 1+1D cellular-automaton dynamics and connects their
criticality to measurement-induced transitions in hybrid quantum circuits.
Entanglement Phase Transitions & Complexity via Ising Models
Cluster States • Transfer Matrices • Sampling Complexity
Roadmap from 2D quantum sampling to Ising partition functions and boundary
entanglement.
Links boundary-state entanglement transitions in measured cluster states to Ising partition
functions with complex parameters and the difficulty of classical sampling.
Publications
[HLZC26]Eliot Heinrich, Hanchen Liu, Tianci
Zhou, Xiao Chen.
Critical behaviors of magic and participation entropy at
measurement induced phase transitions.
arXiv:2603.12626 (2026).
arXiv
[RLC25]Vikram Ravindranath, Hanchen
Liu, Xiao Chen.
From Quantum Circuits with Ultraslow Dynamics to Classical
Plaquette
Models.
arXiv:2510.07247 (2025).
arXiv