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We study the slow quenching dynamics (characterized by an inverse rate, $\tau^{-1}$) of a one-dimensional transverse Ising chain with nearest neighbor ferromagentic interactions across the quantum critical point (QCP) and analyze the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-06-08 Shraddha Sharma , Uma Divakaran , Anatoli Polkovnikov , Amit Dutta

Uncovering and understanding universal dynamics in matter far from equilibrium remains a key challenge. In this work, we identify a so far unrecognized form of universal behavior that emerges after a sudden symmetry-breaking quench at…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-11 Tobias Wiener , Laurin Brunner , Markus Heyl

We study the prethermal dynamics of an interacting quantum field theory with a N-component order parameter and $O(N)$ symmetry, suddenly quenched in the vicinity of a dynamical critical point. Depending on the initial conditions, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-04-05 Alessio Chiocchetta , Andrea Gambassi , Sebastian Diehl , Jamir Marino

Using tensor network methods, we simulate the real-time evolution of the lattice Thirring model quenched out of equilibrium in both the critical and massive phases and study the appearance of dynamical quantum phase transitions, as…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-06-25 Mari Carmen Bañuls , Krzysztof Cichy , Hao-Ti Hung , Ying-Jer Kao , C. -J. David Lin , Amit Singh

Discrete time crystals are related to non-equilibrium dynamics of periodically driven quantum many-body systems where the discrete time translation symmetry of the Hamiltonian is spontaneously broken into another discrete symmetry.…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-05-31 Arkadiusz Kosior , Krzysztof Sacha

We study the dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs) manifested in the subsequent unitary dynamics of an extended Ising model with additional three spin interactions following a sudden quench. Revisiting the equilibrium phase diagram of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-04-24 Sourav Bhattacharjee , Amit Dutta

Dynamical quantum phase transitions are at the forefront of current efforts to understand quantum matter out of equilibrium. Except for a few exactly solvable models, predictions of these critical phenomena typically rely on advanced…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-07-18 Fredrik Brange , Sebastiano Peotta , Christian Flindt , Teemu Ojanen

In this work it is shown that dynamical quantum phase transitions in Loschmidt echos control the nonequilibrium dynamics of the order parameter after particular quantum quenches in systems with broken-symmetry phases. A direct connection…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-11-24 Markus Heyl

We investigate two types of dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs) in the transverse field Ising model on ensembles of Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi networks of size $N$. These networks consist of vertices connected randomly with probability $p$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-24 Tomohiro Hashizume , Felix Herbort , Joseph Tindall , Dieter Jaksch

We overview the concept of dynamical phase transitions in isolated quantum systems quenched out of equilibrium. We focus on non-equilibrium transitions characterized by an order parameter, which features qualitatively distinct temporal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-10-25 Jamir Marino , Martin Eckstein , Matthew S. Foster , Ana Maria Rey

We investigate the emergence of universal dynamical scaling in quantum critical spin systems adiabatically driven out of equilibrium, with emphasis on quench dynamics which involves non-isolated critical points (i.e., critical regions) and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Shusa Deng , Gerardo Ortiz , Lorenza Viola

We study the out-of-equilibrium dynamics of one-dimensional quantum Ising-like systems, arising from sudden quenches of the Hamiltonian parameter $g$ driving quantum transitions between disordered and ordered phases. In particular, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-05-16 Davide Rossini , Ettore Vicari

We explore the critical properties of the recently discovered finite-time dynamical phase transition in the non-equilibrium relaxation of Ising magnets after a temperature quench. The transition is characterized by a sudden switch in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-03-03 Nalina Vadakkayil , Massimiliano Esposito , Jan Meibohm

Dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs) extend the concept of phase transitions and thus universality to the non-equilibrium regime. In this letter, we investigate DQPTs in a string of ions simulating interacting transverse-field Ising…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-30 P. Jurcevic , H. Shen , P. Hauke , C. Maier , T. Brydges , C. Hempel , B. P. Lanyon , M. Heyl , R. Blatt , C. F. Roos

Spontaneous breaking of continuous time translation symmetry into a discrete one is related to time crystal formation. While the phenomenon is not possible in the ground state of a time-independent many-body system, it can occur in an…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-08-21 Arkadiusz Kosior , Andrzej Syrwid , Krzysztof Sacha

We examine the dynamics after a sudden quench in the magnetic field of the Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick model. Starting from the groundstate and by employing the time-dependent fidelity, we see manifestly different dynamics are present if the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-07 Steve Campbell

The dynamics of a quantum phase transition is inextricably woven with the formation of excitations, as a result of the critical slowing down in the neighborhood of the critical point. We design a transitionless quantum driving through a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-09-17 Adolfo del Campo , Marek M. Rams , Wojciech H. Zurek

Non-equilibrium aspects of the BCS model have fascinated physicists for decades, from the seminal works of Eliashberg to modern realizations in cold atom experiments. The latter scenarios have lead to a great deal of interest in the quench…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-03-12 Colin Rylands , Victor Galitski

We present here the non-equilibrium dynamics of the recently studied quasiperiodic Ising model. The zero temperature phase diagram of this model mainly consists of three phases, where each of these three phases can have extended, localized…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-09-12 Uma Divakaran

We review the non-zero temperature relaxational dynamics of quantum systems near a zero temperature, second-order phase transition. We begin with the quantum Ising chain, for which universal and exact results for the relaxation rates can be…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-23 Subir Sachdev