Phase transitions induced by standard and feedback measurements in transmon arrays

The confluence of unitary dynamics and nonunitary measurements gives rise to intriguing and relevant phenomena, generally referred to as measurement-induced phase transitions. These transitions have been observed in quantum systems composed of trapped ions and superconducting quantum devices. However, their experimental realization demands substantial resources, primarily owing to the classical tracking of measurement outcomes, known as postselection of trajectories. In this work, we first describe the statistical properties of an interacting transmon array which is repeatedly measured by standard and feedback measurements. We predict the behavior of relevant quantities in the area-law phase using a combination of the replica method and non-Hermitian perturbation theory. We show numerically that a transmon array, modeled by an attractive Bose-Hubbard model, in which local measurements of the number of bosons are probabilistically interleaved, exhibits a phase transition in the entanglement entropy properties of the ensemble of trajectories in the steady state for both measurement types. Furthermore, in the numerical simulations, we observe that by using deterministic feedback operations after the local number measurements, the distribution of the number of bosons measured at a single site carries relevant information about the statistics of individual trajectories.