Universal statistics of measurement-induced entanglement in Tomonaga-Luttinger liquids

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We study the statistics of measurement-induced entanglement (MIE) after partial measurement on a class of one-dimensional quantum critical states described by Tomonaga-Luttinger liquids at low energies. Using a replica trick to average over measurement outcomes in the charge basis and tools from conformal field theory (CFT), we derive closed-form expressions for the cumulants of MIE. We show that exact Born-averaging over microscopic measurement outcomes becomes equivalent at low energy to averaging over conformal boundary conditions weighted by their corresponding partition functions. Our results yield distinctive critical behavior across all cumulants in the regime where the unmeasured parts of the system are maximally separated. We also obtain the full distribution of MIE, finding that it is generically bimodal and exhibits fat-tails. We corroborate our analytical predictions by numerical calculations and find good agreement between them.

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@article{khanna2026universal,
  title = {{Universal statistics of measurement-induced entanglement in Tomonaga-Luttinger liquids}},
  author = {Kabir Khanna and Romain Vasseur},
  journal = {SciPost Physics},
  year = {2026},
  month = oct,
  doi = {10.21468/scipostphys.21.4.100},
  url = {https://scipost.org/10.21468/SciPostPhys.21.4.100},
  note = {CC BY 4.0},
}

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TY  - JOUR
TI  - Universal statistics of measurement-induced entanglement in Tomonaga-Luttinger liquids
AU  - Kabir Khanna
AU  - Romain Vasseur
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/10/21
JO  - SciPost Physics
DO  - 10.21468/scipostphys.21.4.100
UR  - https://scipost.org/10.21468/SciPostPhys.21.4.100
AB  - We study the statistics of measurement-induced entanglement (MIE) after partial measurement on a class of one-dimensional quantum critical states described by Tomonaga-Luttinger liquids at low energies. Using a replica trick to average over measurement outcomes in the charge basis and tools from conformal field theory (CFT), we derive closed-form expressions for the cumulants of MIE. We show that exact Born-averaging over microscopic measurement outcomes becomes equivalent at low energy to averaging over conformal boundary conditions weighted by their corresponding partition functions. Our results yield distinctive critical behavior across all cumulants in the regime where the unmeasured parts of the system are maximally separated. We also obtain the full distribution of MIE, finding that it is generically bimodal and exhibits fat-tails. We corroborate our analytical predictions by numerical calculations and find good agreement between them.
SN  - 2542-4653
ER  -

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