SciPost Physics (Jul 2024)

Measurement-induced phase transition in teleportation and wormholes

  • Alexey Milekhin, Fedor K. Popov

DOI
https://doi.org/10.21468/SciPostPhys.17.1.020
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 17, no. 1
p. 020

Abstract

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We demonstrate that some quantum teleportation protocols exhibit measurement induced phase transitions in Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model. Namely, Kitaev-Yoshida and Gao-Jafferis-Wall protocols have a phase transition if we apply them at a large projection rate or at a large coupling rate respectively. It is well-known that at small rates they allow teleportation to happen only within a small time-window. We show that at large rates, the system goes into a new steady state, where the teleportation can be performed at any moment. In dual Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity these phase transitions correspond to the formation of an eternal traversable wormhole. In the Kitaev-Yoshida case this novel type of wormhole is supported by continuous projections.