Measurement-Induced Crossover of Quantum Jump Statistics in Postselection-Free Many-Body Dynamics
Abstract
We reveal a nontrivial crossover of subsystem fluctuations of quantum jumps in continuously monitored many-body systems, which have a trivial maximally mixed state as a steady-state density matrix. While the fluctuations exhibit the standard volume law ∝L following Poissonian statistics for sufficiently weak measurement strength, anomalous yet universal scaling law ∝L^{α} (α∼2.7 up to L=20) indicating super-Poissonian statistics appears for strong measurement strength. This drastically affects the precision of estimating the rate of quantum jumps: for strong (weak) measurement, the estimation uncertainty is enhanced (suppressed) as the system size increases. We demonstrate that the anomalous scaling of the subsystem fluctuation originates from an integrated many-body autocorrelation function and that the transient dynamics contributes to the scaling law rather than the Liouvillian gap. The measurement-induced crossover is accessed only from the postselection-free information obtained from the time and the position of quantum jumps and can be tested in ultracold atom experiments.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies
Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates
Quantum Mechanics and Applications
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Physical Review Letters
- Publisher
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Volume
- 137
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 040402–040402
- Publication date
- 24 June 2026
- Language
- EN