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We report on susceptibility measurements in the strongly correlated layered cobalt oxide [BiBa0.66K0.36O2]CoO2, which demonstrate the existence of a magnetic quantum critical point (QCP) governing the electronic properties. The investigated…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-07-12 P. Limelette , W. Saulquin , H. Muguerra , D. Grebille

Quantum phase transitions occur at zero temperature and involve the appearance of long-range correlations. These correlations are not due to thermal fluctuations but to the intricate structure of a strongly entangled ground state of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 G. Vidal , J. I. Latorre , E. Rico , A. Kitaev

A quantum many-body system undergoes phase transitions of distinct species with variations of local and global parameters. We propose a framework in which a dynamical quantity can change its behavior for quenches across global…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-27 Leela Ganesh Chandra Lakkaraju , Srijon Ghosh , Debasis Sadhukhan , Aditi Sen De

We show that a scaling law exists for the near resonant dynamics of cold kicked atoms in the presence of a randomly fluctuating pulse amplitude. Analysis of a quasi-classical phase-space representation of the quantum system with noise…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-08-29 Mark Sadgrove , Sandro Wimberger , Scott Parkins , Rainer Leonhardt

When an external parameter drives a system across a quantum phase transition at a finite rate, work is performed on the system and entropy is dissipated, due to the creation of excitations via the Kibble-Zurek mechanism. Although both the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-09 Zhanyu Ma , Andrew K. Mitchell , Eran Sela

A measure of how sensitive the entanglement entropy is in a quantum system, has been proposed and its information geometric origin is discussed. It has been demonstrated for two exactly solvable spin systems, that thermodynamic criticality…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-02 Pritam Sarkar

This colloquium gives an overview of recent theoretical and experimental progress in the area of nonequilibrium dynamics of isolated quantum systems. We particularly focus on quantum quenches: the temporal evolution following a sudden or…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-09-29 Anatoli Polkovnikov , Krishnendu Sengupta , Alessandro Silva , Mukund Vengalattore

Understanding how macroscopic systems exhibit irreversible thermal behavior has been a long-standing challenge, first brought to prominence by Boltzmann. Recent advances have established rigorous conditions for isolated quantum systems to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-10 M. R. Passos , Thiago R. de Oliveira

The concept of entropy and the correct application of the Second Law of thermodynamics are essential in order to understand the reason why quantum error correction is thermodynamically possible and no violation of the Second Law occurs…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Carlo Cafaro , Peter van Loock

Critical phenomena at finite temperature underpin a broad range of physical systems, yet their study remains challenging due to computational bottlenecks near phase transitions. Quantum annealers have attracted significant interest as a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-11 Gianluca Teza , Francesco Campaioli , Marco Avesani , Oren Raz

We investigate the quench dynamics of a quantum dot strongly coupled to spin-polarized ferromagnetic leads. The real-time evolution is calculated by means of the time-dependent density-matrix numerical renormalization group method…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-10 Kacper Wrześniewski , Ireneusz Weymann

First order quantum phase transitions (1QPTs) are signaled, in the thermodynamic limit, by discontinuous changes in the ground state properties. These discontinuities affect expectation values of observables, including spatial correlations.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-12 A. Yuste , C. Cartwright , G. De Chiara , A. Sanpera

We argue that the finite temperature dynamics of the integer quantum Hall system is governed by two independent length scales. The consistent scaling description of the transition makes crucial use of two temperature critical exponents,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 D. G. Polyakov , K. V. Samokhin

When a system is swept through a quantum critical point, the quantum Kibble-Zurek mechanism makes universal predictions for quantities such as the number and energy of excitations produced. This mechanism is now being used to obtain…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-09 Nicholas E. Sherman , Alexander Avdoshkin , Joel E. Moore

Fluctuations of energy and heat are investigated during the relaxation following the instantaneous temperature quench of an extended system. Results are obtained analytically for the Gaussian model and for the large $N$ model quenched below…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-22 M. Zannetti , F. Corberi , G. Gonnella , A. Piscitelli

We study properties of isolated integrable quantum systems after a sudden quench starting from thermal states. We show that, even if the system is initially in thermal equilibrium at finite temperature, the diagonal entropy after a quench…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-07-13 Kai He , Marcos Rigol

We consider the scaling behavior of circuit complexity under quantum quench in an a relativistic fermion field theory on a one dimensional spatial lattice. This is done by finding an exactly solvable quench protocol which asymptotes to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-15 Sinong Liu

Motivated by recent experiments in ultracold atomic gases that explore the nonequilibrium dynamics of interacting quantum many-body systems, we investigate the opposite limit of Landau's Fermi liquid paradigm: We study a Hubbard model with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-05-09 M. Moeckel , S. Kehrein

In a recent numerical study by Haldar et al. (Phys. Rev. X 11, 031062) it was shown that signatures of proximate quantum critical points can be observed at early and intermediate times after certain quantum quenches. Said work focused…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-07-19 Jacob H. Robertson , Riccardo Senese , Fabian H. L. Essler

Small changes in an external parameter can often lead to dramatic qualitative changes in the lowest energy quantum mechanical ground state of a correlated electron system. In anisotropic crystals, such as the high temperature…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 Subir Sachdev