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We study an integrable spin chain with three spin interactions and the staggered field ($\lambda$) while the latter is quenched either slowly (in a linear fashion in time ($t$) as $t/\tau$ where $t$ goes from a large negative value to a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-06-22 Uma Divakaran , Shraddha Sharma , Amit Dutta

In Ref. Ansari et al., dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs) -- non-analyticities in the Loschmidt return rate at critical times -- are investigated in the presence of noise for a two-band model. The authors report that DQPTs persist…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-21 J. Sirker

The dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs) in quantum spin chains with gapless phases after a sudden quench are studied. We mainly consider the general systems with asymmetrical quasiparticle excitation spectra and obtain the general…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-06-02 Kaiyuan Cao , Zhong Ming , Peiqing Tong

Phase transitions have recently been formulated in the time domain of quantum many-body systems, a phenomenon dubbed dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs), whose phenomenology is often divided in two types. One refers to distinct…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Ricardo Puebla

Universality and scaling laws are hallmarks of equilibrium phase transitions and critical phenomena. However, extending these concepts to non-equilibrium systems is an outstanding challenge. Despite recent progress in the study of dynamical…

Much has been learned regarding dynamical quantum phase transition (DQPT) due to sudden quenches across quantum critical points in traditional quantum systems. However, not much has been explored when a system undergoes a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-06-29 Ranjan Modak , Debraj Rakshit

Confinement is an intriguing phenomenon prevalent in condensed matter and high-energy physics. Exploring its effect on the far-from-equilibrium criticality of quantum many-body systems is of great interest both from a fundamental and…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-10-20 Jesse Osborne , Ian P. McCulloch , Jad C. Halimeh

In recent years, various notions of dynamical phase transitions have emerged to describe far-from-equilibrium criticality. A unifying framework connecting these different concepts is still missing, and would provide significant progress…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-04-04 Ángel L. Corps , Armando Relaño , Jad C. Halimeh

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

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

Dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs) occur at times when a quantum state exhibits a nonanalytic change in its return probability. This can be viewed as the probability of collapsing the evolved state to the initial state by quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-18 Guan-Hua Chen , Guo-Yi Zhu

We study the two-dimensional kinetic Ising model below its equilibrium critical temperature, subject to a square-wave oscillating external field. We focus on the multi-droplet regime where the metastable phase decays through nucleation and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 G. Korniss , C. J. White , P. A. Rikvold , M. A. Novotny

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

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

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

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 sudden quenches across the critical point in the transverse field Ising chain with a perturbing non-integrable next-nearest-neighbour interaction. Expressions for the return (Loschmidt) amplitude and associated rate function…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-22 Johannes Kriel , Christoph Karrasch , Stefan Kehrein

We establish a unified framework for dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs) in non-Hermitian systems that encompasses both biorthogonal and self-norm non-biorthogonal formulations for pure and mixed states under quantum quench…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-27 Yongxu Fu , Gao Xianlong

Phase transitions correspond to the singular behavior of physical systems in response to continuous control parameters like temperature or external fields. Near continuous phase transitions, associated with the divergence of a correlation…

Quantum coherence will undoubtedly play a fundamental role in understanding the dynamics of quantum many-body systems, thereby to reveal its genuine contribution is of great importance. In this paper, we specialize our discussions on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-29 Bao-Ming Xu