Research

Magic & Participation Entropy at Measurement-Induced Transitions

Random Clifford Circuits • Quantum Automata • Participation Entropy

Random Clifford circuit and quantum automaton circuit diagrams
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.

Quantum Circuits with Ultraslow Dynamics

Hybrid Circuits • Glassy Dynamics • Classical Mapping

Hybrid quantum circuit layer and corresponding classical spin-model phases
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.

Coherent Error-Induced Phase Transition

Quantum Error Correction • Stabilizer Codes • Coherent Errors

Toric-code checks, logical operators, and coherent error gates
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.

Plaquette Models & Measurement-Induced Criticality

Plaquette Models • Cellular Automata • Criticality

RTPM and RXPM phase diagram with symmetry-operator snapshots
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
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

  1. [HLZC26] , , , . Critical behaviors of magic and participation entropy at measurement induced phase transitions. arXiv:2603.12626 (2026). arXiv
  2. [RLC25] , , . From Quantum Circuits with Ultraslow Dynamics to Classical Plaquette Models. arXiv:2510.07247 (2025). arXiv
  3. [LC25] , . Coherent error induced phase transition. arXiv:2506.00650 (2025). arXiv
  4. [LRC25] , , . Quantum entanglement phase transitions and computational complexity: Insights from Ising models. Physical Review B, 111(2):024312, 2025. DOI
  5. [LC24] , . Plaquette models, cellular automata, and measurement-induced criticality. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, 57(43):435003, 2024. DOI
  6. [LZC22] , , . Measurement-induced entanglement transition in a two-dimensional shallow circuit. Physical Review B, 106(14):144311, 2022. DOI