Learnability phase transitions in monitored quantum systems

23 Jan 2026
Seminars and colloquia
Time
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Venue
Lindemann Lecture Theatre
Clarendon Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PU
Speaker(s)

Professor , University of Geneva

Seminar series
Theoretical physics colloquia
For more information contact

Jordan Summers at tpadmin@physics.ox.ac.uk 

Abstract

While many-body quantum physics has traditionally focused on the properties of cold matter in thermal equilibrium, emerging noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) platforms allow access to far-from-equilibrium dynamics with local space and time control over interactions. In this new era of “interactive quantum dynamics�, a key challenge is to identify universal features of non-equilibrium quantum dynamics, transport, and many-body entanglement. In this talk, I will discuss new types of non-equilibrium quantum phases of matter and phase transitions, with an emphasis on emergent classical statistical mechanics descriptions of quantum entanglement dynamics. In particular, I will focus on the recently discovered “learnability phase transitions� that occur in monitored quantum systems and separate phases characterized by the amount of quantum information that can be extracted from measurements.