Artificial Intelligence · 21.08.2026, 07:16 UTC
Demons on a Budget: Adaptive Measurement Placement at the Entanglement Phase Transition
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| Kategorie | Artificial Intelligence |
| Quelle | arXiv cs.LG ↗ |
| Veröffentlicht | 21.08.2026 UTC |
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arXiv:2608.19248v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Monitored quantum circuits exhibit a measurement-induced phase transition between volume-law and area-law entanglement as a function of the measurement rate $p$. Prior work places measurements at random locations and treats the rate as the control parameter. We instead fix the measurement budget and vary the placement process, comparing random placement against hand-designed and learned policies in brickwork random Clifford circuits at matched budget. First, placement geometry matters more than placement information. A deterministic contiguous sweep cuts the half-cut entropy by a factor of 3.4 relative to random placement, while equal-coverage unstructured placement and a greedy policy with full state access do far worse. The effect is carried by spatial order alone: measuring the $k$ least recently measured sites gives $4.14 \pm 0.06$ bits with random tie-breaking and $1.29 \pm 0.04$ bits with position-ordered tie-breaking. Second, the sweep eliminates the transition rather than shifting it. Tripartite mutual information crossings recede as $p^* \propto 1/L$, the steady-state entropy saturates at an $L$-independent ceiling near $0.46/p$, and data for $64 \le L \le 512$ collapse onto the form $S = p^{-1} f(pL)$ predicted by a ballistic regrowth argument. Third, in stabilizer dynamics every outcome is deterministic or a fair coin flip, so the record's Shannon entropy is exactly countable; the sweep dominates the entropy-versus-record-cost frontier while paying the same roughly one bit per measurement as random placement. …