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We study a particular type of local quench in a generic quantum critical one-dimensional system, using conformal field theory (CFT) techniques, and providing numerical checks of the results in free fermion systems. The system is initially…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-19 Jean-Marie Stéphan , Jérôme Dubail

We study the equilibration behavior following local quenches, using frustrated quantum spin chains as an example of interacting closed quantum systems. Specifically, we examine the statistics of the time series of the Loschmidt echo, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-03-21 Mathias Diez , Nicholas Chancellor , Stephan Haas , Lorenzo Campos Venuti , Paolo Zanardi

We study the quantum phase transition in $f$-electron systems as a quantum Lifshitz transition driven by selective Mott localization in a realistic extended Anderson lattice model. Using DMFT, we find that a quantum critical {\it phase}…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-20 M. S. Laad , S. Koley , A Taraphder

We present a prototype of behavior of glassy systems driven by quantum dynamics in a quenching protocol by analyzing the random energy model in a transverse field. We calculate several types of dynamical quantum amplitude and find a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-12-14 Tomoyuki Obuchi , Kazutaka Takahashi

Quantum phase transitions are a fascinating area of condensed matter physics. The extension through complexification not only broadens the scope of this field but also offers a new framework for understanding criticality and its statistical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-01-17 Yang Liu , Erhai Zhao , Haiyuan Zou

We investigate the quantum dynamics generated by quantum quenches (QQs) of the Hamiltonian parameters in many-body systems, focusing on protocols that cross first-order and continuous quantum transitions, both in finite-size systems and in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-29 Andrea Pelissetto , Davide Rossini , Ettore Vicari

We study the quench dynamics in a $Z_3$ symmetric chiral clock model (CCM). The results reveal that chiral phases can lead to the emergence of dynamical quantum phase transition (DQPT). By analyzing Lee-Yang-Fisher zeros' distribution in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-15 Ling-Feng Yu , Wei-Lin Li , Xue-Jia Yu , Zhi Li

We construct the finite-temperature dynamical phase diagram of the fully connected transverse-field Ising model from the vantage point of two disparate concepts of dynamical criticality. An analytical derivation of the classical dynamics…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-05-07 Johannes Lang , Bernhard Frank , Jad C. Halimeh

A dynamical quantum phase transition can occur during time evolution of sudden quenched quantum systems across a phase transition. It corresponds to the nonanalytic behavior at a critical time of the rate function of the quantum state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-14 Xue-Yi Guo , Chao Yang , Yu Zeng , Yi Peng , He-Kang Li , Hui Deng , Yi-Rong Jin , Shu Chen , Dongning Zheng , Heng Fan

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 present an exact renormalization group analysis of the Loschmidt amplitude of the quantum $N$-state Potts chain with random quench-disordered nearest neighbor bonds, under the extreme dynamical quantum quench. We prove that the phase…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-08-14 Yantao Wu

Non-Hermitian quantum mechanics with parity-time (PT) symmetry offers a powerful framework for exploring the complex interplay of dissipation and coherent interactions in open quantum systems. While PT-symmetry breaking has been studied in…

In this work we study non-Hermitian extensions of the paradigmatic spin-1/2 XY chain in a magnetic field. Using the mapping of the model to free fermion form, we provide analytical insights into the energy spectrum of the non-Hermitian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-15 D. C. Liu , Murray T. Batchelor

We investigate the dynamics of the rate function and of local observables after a quench in models which exhibit phase transitions between a superfluid and an insulator in their ground states. Zeros of the return probability, corresponding…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-11-17 Thomás Fogarty , Ayaka Usui , Thomas Busch , Alessandro Silva , John Goold

Quantum dynamics of magnetic order in a chiral multiferroic chain is studied. We consider two different scenarios: Ultrashort terahertz (THz) excitations or a sudden electric field quench. Performing analytical and numerical exact…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-09-07 M. Azimi , M. Sekania , S. K. Mishra , L. Chotorlishvili , Z. Toklikishvili , J. Berakdar

We investigate the non-equilibrium behavior of a fully-connected (or all-to-all coupled) Bose-Hubbard model after a Mott to superfluid quench, in the limit of large boson densities and for an arbitrary number $V$ of lattice sites, with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-06 Andrea Pizzi , Fabrizio Dolcini , Karyn Le Hur

We show that the number of harmonics of the Wigner function, recently proposed as a measure of quantum complexity, can be also used to characterize quantum phase transitions. The non-analytic behavior of this quantity in the neighborhood of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Pinquan Qin , Wen-ge Wang , Giuliano Benenti , Giulio Casati

We investigate the scaling of the bipartite entanglement entropy across Lifshitz quantum phase transitions, where the topology of the Fermi surface changes without any changes in symmetry. We present both numerical and analytical results…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-03-26 Marlon Rodney , H. Francis Song , Sung-Sik Lee , Karyn Le Hur , Erik Sorensen

We investigate the out-of-equilibrium dynamics after a quantum quench of the reduced fidelities between the states of a subregion $A$ at different times. Precisely, we consider the fidelity between the time-dependent state of $A$ and its…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-27 Gilles Parez , Vincenzo Alba

We describe a new universality class of dynamical quantum phase transitions of the Loschmidt amplitude of quantum spin chains off equilibrium criticality. We demonstrate that in many cases it is possible to change the conventional linear…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-07 Yantao Wu