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A phase transition indicates a sudden change in the properties of a large system. For temperature-driven phase transitions this is related to non-analytic behavior of the free energy density at the critical temperature: The knowledge of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-20 Markus Heyl , Anatoli Polkovnikov , Stefan Kehrein

Fermi's golden rule which describes the transition rates between two electronic levels under external stimulations is used ubiquitously in different fields of physics. The original Fermi's golden rule was derived from perturbative…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-27 Caihong Zheng , Fan Zheng

Driven-dissipative open quantum many-body systems exhibit rich phases that are characterized by the steady states in the long-time dynamics. However, lossy open systems inevitably decay to the vacuum, making their transient evolution the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-06-09 Xin-Yuan Gao , Yangqian Yan

The physics of quantum states beyond thermodynamic equilibrium represents a fascinating and cutting-edge research. Using numerical state-of-the-art approaches, we observe dynamical quantum phase transitions in the dissipative two-qubit Rabi…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-08 G. Di Bello , A. Ponticelli , F. Pavan , V. Cataudella , G. De Filippis , A. de Candia , C. A. Perroni

We elucidate the basic physical mechanisms responsible for the quantum-classical transition in one-dimensional, bounded chaotic systems subject to unconditioned environmental interactions. We show that such a transition occurs due to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-10-18 Benjamin D. Greenbaum , Salman Habib , Kosuke Shizume , Bala Sundaram

Quantum phase transitions occur at zero temperature when some non-thermal control-parameter like pressure or chemical composition is changed. They are driven by quantum rather than thermal fluctuations. In this review we first give a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-09-27 Thomas Vojta

We study the emergence of dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs) in a half-filled one-dimensional lattice described by the extended Fermi-Hubbard model, based on tensor network simulations. Considering different initial states, namely…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-04-29 Juan José Mendoza-Arenas

By utilizing biorthogonal bases, we develop a comprehensive framework for studying biorthogonal dynamical quantum phase transitions in non-Hermitian systems. With the help of the previously overlooked associated state, we define the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-03 Yecheng Jing , Jian-Jun Dong , Yu-Yu Zhang , Zi-Xiang Hu

A quantum phase transition that was recently observed in a high-mobility silicon MOSFET is analyzed in terms of a scaling theory. The most striking characteristic of the transition is a divergence of the thermopower, according to an inverse…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-10-01 T. R. Kirkpatrick , D. Belitz

Quantum phase transitions encompass a variety of phenomena that occur in quantum systems exhibiting several possible symmetries. Traditionally, these transitions are explored by continuously varying a control parameter that connects two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-12 Á. Sáiz , J. Khalouf-Rivera , J. M. Arias , P. Pérez-Fernández , J. Casado-Pascual

We investigate the magnetic quantum phase-transitions in bulk correlated metals at the level of dynamical mean-field theory. To this end, we focus on the Hubbard model on a simple cubic lattice as a function of temperature and electronic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-09-09 S. Adler , D. R. Fus , M. O. Malcolms , A. Vock , K. Held , A. A. Katanin , T. Schäfer , A. Toschi

We formulate a method for incorporating quantum fluctuations into molecular- dynamics simulations of many-body systems, such as those employed for energetic nuclear collision processes. Based on Fermi's Golden Rule, we allow spontaneous…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Akira Ohnishi , Jorgen Randrup

Quantum phase transitions also occur in non-Hermitian systems. In this work we show that density functional theory, for the first time, uncovers universal behaviors for phase transitions in non-Hermitian many-body systems. To be specific,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-10 Bo-Bo Wei , Liang Jin

Quantum phase transitions of metals involve changes in the Fermi surface, and can be divided into three categories. The first two categories involve symmetry breaking, and lead to a deformation or reconstruction of the Fermi surface. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-08-20 Subir Sachdev

Many-body states described by a Schr\"{o}dinger equation include states of overlapping waves of non-vanishing interaction energies. These peculiar states formed in many-body transitions remain in asymptotic regions, and lead a new component…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-06-24 Kenzo Ishikawa , Yutaka Tobita

We introduce a microscopic Hamiltonian model of a two level system with many-body interactions with an environment whose excitation dynamics is fully solved within the Keldysh formalism. If a particle starts in one of the states of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-29 Ernesto P. Danieli , Gonzalo A. Alvarez , Patricia R. Levstein , Horacio M. Pastawski

Dynamical phase transitions can occur in isolated quantum systems that are brought out of equilibrium by sudden parameter changes. We discuss the characterization of such dynamical phase transitions based on the statistics of produced…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-03 Pietro Smacchia , Michael Knap , Eugene Demler , Alessandro Silva

Quantum theory provides an extensive framework for the description of the equilibrium properties of quantum matter. Yet experiments in quantum simulators have now opened up a route towards generating quantum states beyond this equilibrium…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-04-24 Markus Heyl

We study the mode dynamics of a generic quadratic fermionic Hamiltonian under a sudden quench protocol in momentum space. Modes with zero energy at any given time, $t$, are referred to as dynamical critical modes. Among all zero-energy…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-06 Akash Mitra , Shashi C. L. Srivastava

We investigate the transient dynamics of the quantum Stuart-Landau oscillator, a paradigmatic quantum system exhibiting a quantum limit cycle and synchronization. From the energy dynamics, we determine a condition for the classical regime…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-03 Hendry M. Lim , Donny Dwiputra , M Shoufie Ukhtary , Ahmad R. T. Nugraha