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We present a framework for investigating the response of conformally-invariant confined 1+1-dimensional systems to a quantum quench. While conformal invariance is generally destroyed in a global quantum quench, systems that can be described…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-02-12 Dalit Engelhardt

The task of exploring and understanding various aspects of far-from-equilibrium dynamics of closed and generic quantum many-body systems has received a thrust of attention in recent years, driven partly by remarkable advances in ultracold…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-17 Aditya Banerjee

We study the problem of a quantum quench in which the initial state is the ground state of an inhomogeneous hamiltonian, in two different models, conformal field theory and ordinary free field theory, which are known to exhibit…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-08-28 Spyros Sotiriadis , John Cardy

Topology forms a cornerstone in modern condensed matter and statistical physics, offering a new framework to classify the phases and phase transitions beyond the traditional Landau paradigm. However, it is widely believed that topological…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-05 Xue-Jia Yu , Limei Xu , Hai-Qing Lin

The dynamics of the geometric phase are studied in inhomogeneous quantum spin chains after a quench. Analytic expressions of the Pancharatnam geometric phase (PGP) $\mathcal{G}(t)$ are derived, for both the period-two quantum Ising chain…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-07-19 Kaiyuan Cao , Shuxiang Yang , Yayun Hu , Guangwen Yang

Topology is a fundamental aspect of quantum physics, and it has led to key breakthroughs and results in various fields of quantum materials. In condensed matters, this has culminated in the recent discovery of symmetry-protected topological…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-24 Baokai Wang , Yi-Chun Hung , Xiaoting Zhou , Tzen Ong , Hsin Lin

Here, we reveal our recent progress on a geometrical approach of quantum physics and topological crystals linking with Dirac magnetic monopoles and gauge fields through classical electrodynamics. The Bloch sphere of a quantum spin-1/2…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-19 Karyn Le Hur

We study the effect of strong disorder on topology and entanglement in quench dynamics. Although disorder-induced topological phases have been well studied in equilibrium, the disorder-induced topology in quench dynamics has not been…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-09-14 Hsiu-Chuan Hsu , Pok-Man Chiu , Po-Yao Chang

We investigate the non-equilibrium quantum dynamics and thermodynamics of free fermions suddenly coupled to a localized defect in a one-dimensional harmonic trap. This setup realizes a quantum quench transformation that gives rise to the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-01-26 Beatrice Donelli , Gabriele De Chiara , Francesco Scazza , Stefano Gherardini

Quantum self-oscillatory phases are ubiquitous in driven-dissipative systems. Classically, each phase is defined by its flow pattern and how stationary sets organize phase space (e.g. fixed points and limit cycles), with transitions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-15 Alejandro S. Gómez , Javier del Pino

We study spectral properties and the dynamics after a quench of one-dimensional spinless fermions with short-range interactions and long-range random hopping. We show that a sufficiently fast decay of the hopping term promotes localization…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2012-05-24 Ehsan Khatami , Marcos Rigol , Armando Relaño , Antonio M. Garcia-Garcia

Results are presented for the nonequilibrium dynamics of a quantum $XXZ$-spin chain whose spins are initially arranged in a domain wall profile via the application of a magnetic field in the $z$-direction which is spatially varying along…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-18 Jarrett Lancaster , Aditi Mitra

In this work, we investigate the real-time dynamics of quenching a state from phase separation in a holographic model of first-order phase transition. In addition to the typical phase-separated and high-energy final states, we have…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-09 Qian Chen , Yuxuan Liu , Yu Tian , Xiaoning Wu , Hongbao Zhang

We review the dynamics after quantum quenches in integrable quantum spin chains. We give a pedagogical introduction to relaxation in isolated quantum systems, and discuss the description of the steady state by (gen- eralized) Gibbs…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-07-06 Fabian H. L. Essler , Maurizio Fagotti

We establish the existence of a topological classification of many-particle quantum systems undergoing unitary time evolution. The classification naturally inherits phenomenology familiar from equilibrium -- it is robust against disorder…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-02-26 Max McGinley , Nigel R. Cooper

Global quantum quench with a finite quench rate which crosses critical points is known to lead to universal scaling of correlation functions as functions of the quench rate. In this work, we explore scaling properties of the entanglement…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 Pawel Caputa , Sumit R. Das , Masahiro Nozaki , Akio Tomiya

Chern insulators exhibit fascinating properties which originate from the topologically nontrivial state characterized by the Chern number. How these properties change if the system is quenched between topologically distinct phases has…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-25 Michael Schüler , Philipp Werner

We study non-equilibrium dynamics and quantum quenches in a recent gauge/gravity duality model for a strongly coupled system interacting with a magnetic impurity with $SU(N)$ spin. At large $N$, it is convenient to write the impurity spin…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-26 Johanna Erdmenger , Mario Flory , Max-Niklas Newrzella , Migael Strydom , Jackson M. S. Wu

We study the topological properties of one dimensional systems undergoing unitary time evolution. We show that symmetries possessed both by the initial wavefunction and by the Hamiltonian at all times may not be present in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-12 Max McGinley , Nigel R. Cooper

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