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Title: Observation of partial and infinite-temperature thermalization induced by repeated measurements on a quantum hardware
(Submitted on 14 Nov 2022 (v1), last revised 13 Jun 2023 (this version, v2))
Abstract: On a quantum superconducting processor we observe partial and infinite-temperature thermalization induced by a sequence of repeated quantum projective measurements, interspersed by a unitary (Hamiltonian) evolution. Specifically, on a qubit and two-qubit systems, we test the state convergence of a monitored quantum system in the limit of a large number of quantum measurements, depending on the non-commutativity of the Hamiltonian and the measurement observable. When the Hamiltonian and observable do not commute, the convergence is uniform towards the infinite-temperature state. Conversely, whenever the two operators have one or more eigenvectors in common in their spectral decomposition, the state of the monitored system converges differently in the subspaces spanned by the measurement observable eigenstates. As a result, we show that the convergence does not tend to a completely mixed (infinite-temperature) state, but to a block-diagonal state in the observable basis, with a finite effective temperature in each measurement subspace. Finally, we quantify the effects of the quantum hardware noise on the data by modelling them by means of depolarizing quantum channels.
Submission history
From: Alessandro Santini [view email][v1] Mon, 14 Nov 2022 15:18:11 GMT (1221kb,D)
[v2] Tue, 13 Jun 2023 10:23:28 GMT (1257kb,D)
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