BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250803T050332EDT-5547VaNhUr@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20250803T090332Z DESCRIPTION:Title: Probing sign structure using measurement-induced entangl ement.\n\nAbstract: The sign structure of quantum states is closely connec ted to quantum phases of matter\, yet detecting such fine-grained properti es of amplitudes is subtle.  Here we employ as a diagnostic measurement-in duced entanglement (MIE)-- the average entanglement generated between two parties after measuring the rest of the system.  We propose that for a sig n-free state\, the MIE upon measuring in the sign-free basis decays no slo wer than the slowest correlation function of the state.  Concretely\, we p rove that MIE is upper bounded by mutual information for sign-free stabili zer states\, which establishes a bound between scaling dimensions of confo rmal field theories describing measurement-induced critical points in stab ilizer systems.  We also verify our proposal in several critical ground st ates of one-dimensional systems\, including the transverse field Ising\, t ri-critical Ising\, and 3-state Potts models.  In contrast\, for states wi th sign structure\, such bounds can be violated\, as we illustrate in crit ical hybrid circuits involving both Haar or Clifford random unitaries and measurements\, and gapless symmetry-protected topological states.\n DTSTART:20221108T203000Z DTEND:20221108T213000Z SUMMARY:Timothy H. Hsieh\, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics URL:/mathstat/channels/event/timothy-h-hsieh-perimeter -institute-theoretical-physics-343175 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR