We use a noisy signal with finite correlation time to drive a spin (dissipative impurity) in the quantum XY spin chain and calculate the dynamics of entanglement entropy (EE) of a bipartition of spins, for a stochastic quantum trajectory. We compute the noise averaged EE of a bipartition of spins and observe that its speed of spreading decreases at strong dissipation, as a result of the Zeno effect. We recover the Zeno crossover and show that noise averaged EE can be used as a proxy for the heating and Zeno regimes. Upon increasing the correlation time of the noise, the location of the Zeno crossover shifts at stronger dissipation, extending the heating regime.

The inhomogeneous transverse field Ising models mainly impurity based and the joint chain are analysed analytically using Jordan-Wigner transformations. The effects of inhomogeneities on the phase transition have been discussed in detail. We constructed an ansatz to diagonalize the two models which are taken into consideration. The inhomogeneity is quantified by a coupling parameter, which can be tuned to control the occurrence of quantum phase transition in these models. We have shown a systematic setup using which we can generalise the solution to a system with an arbitrary number of impurity sites and junctions, which are separated by at least two lattice sites. We have analysed the quantum critical point by calculating the correlation functions, transverse magnetization and the gap between the ground state and the first excited state.