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We investigate the orthogonality catastrophe and quantum speed limit in the Creutz model for dynamical quantum phase transitions. We demonstrate that exact zeros of the Loschmidt echo can exist in finite-size systems for specific discrete…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-25 Zheng-Rong Zhu , Bin Shao , Jian Zou , Lian-Ao Wu

Phase transitions are a fundamental concept in science describing diverse phenomena ranging from, e.g., the freezing of water to Bose-Einstein condensation. While the concept is well-established in equilibrium, similarly fundamental…

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

We study the quantum quench dynamics in an extended version of the Dicke model where an additional parameter allows a smooth transition to the integrable Tavis-Cummings regime. We focus on the influence of various quantum phases and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-25 Michal Kloc , Pavel Stránský , Pavel Cejnar

Using the diagonal entropy, we analyze the dynamical signatures of the Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick (LMG) model excited-state quantum phase transition (ESQPT). We first show that the time evolution of the diagonal entropy behaves as an efficient…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-25 Qian Wang , Francisco Pérez-Bernal

We investigate the spatial and temporal scales of dynamical quantum phase transitions in the one-dimensional Bose-Hubbard model in the strong interaction limit. Using Jordan-Wigner transformation, we obtain the time-dependent wavefunction…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-12-15 Jia Li , Yajiang Hao

Inspired by recent developments in the study of the model of double scaled SYK (DSSYK), as elucidated in a recent paper, we embark on a re-evaluation of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model. Our motivation stems from the insights gained from…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-08 Davood Momeni

In recent years, quantum phase transitions have attracted the interest of both theorists and experimentalists in condensed matter physics. These transitions, which are accessed at zero temperature by variation of a non-thermal control…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Matthias Vojta

Preparing an integrable system in a mixed state described by a thermal density matrix , we subject it to a sudden quench and explore the subsequent unitary dynamics. Defining a version of the generalised Loschmidt overlap amplitude (GLOA)…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-11-29 Utso Bhattacharya , Souvik Bandopadhyay , Amit Dutta

The dynamical quantum phase transition is characterized by the emergence of nonanalytic behaviors in the rate function, corresponding to the occurrence of exact zero points of the Loschmidt echo in the thermodynamical limit. In general,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-12 Yumeng Zeng , Bozhen Zhou , Shu Chen

Dissipative phase transitions (DPT) are defined by sudden changes in the physical properties of nonequilibrium open quantum systems and they present characteristics that have no analog in closed and thermal systems. Several methods to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-08 Masataka Matsumoto , Zi Cai , Matteo Baggioli

We study the dynamics arising from a double quantum quench where the parameters of a given Hamiltonian are abruptly changed from being in an equilibrium phase A to a different phase B and back (A$\to$B$\to$A). As prototype models, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-05-17 D. M. Kennes , D. Schuricht , C. Karrasch

A critically enhanced decay of the Loschmidt echo is characteristic of sudden quench dynamics near a quantum phase transition. Here, we demonstrate that the decay and revival of the Loschmidt echo follows power-law scaling in the system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-23 Myung-Joong Hwang , Bo-Bo Wei , Susana F. Huelga , Martin B. Plenio

Quantum phase transitions encompass a variety of phenomena that occur in quantum systems exhibiting several possible symmetries. Traditionally, these transitions are explored by continuously varying a control parameter that connects two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-12 Á. Sáiz , J. Khalouf-Rivera , J. M. Arias , P. Pérez-Fernández , J. Casado-Pascual

We demonstrate that the open quantum Rabi model (QRM) exhibits a second-order dissipative phase transition (DPT) and propose a method to observe this transition with trapped ions. The interplay between the ultrastrong qubit-oscillator…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-23 Myung-Joong Hwang , Peter Rabl , Martin B. Plenio

We reveal universal dynamical scaling behavior across adiabatic quantum phase transitions (QPTs) in networks ranging from traditional spatial systems (Ising model) to fully connected ones (Dicke and Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick models). Our…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 O. L. Acevedo , L. Quiroga , F. J. Rodríguez , N. F. Johnson

We propose a system of four quantum dots designed to study the competition between three types of interactions: Heisenberg, Kondo and Ising. We find a rich phase diagram containing two sharp features: a quantum phase transition (QPT)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-09-02 Dong E. Liu , Shailesh Chandrasekharan , Harold U. Baranger

Deconfined quantum critical points (DQCPs) have been proposed as a class of continuous quantum phase transitions occurring between two ordered phases with distinct symmetry-breaking patterns, beyond the conventional framework of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-04-23 Yi Cui , Rong Yu , Weiqiang Yu

Using local quantum fidelity distances, we study the dynamical quantum phase transition in integrable and non-integrable one-dimensional Ising chains. Unlike the Loschmidt echo, the standard measure for distinguishing between two quantum…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-08-09 Ruchira V Bhat , Soumya Bera

A Quantum Phase Transition (QPT) in a simple model that describes the coexistence of atoms and diatomic molecules is studied. The model, that is briefly discussed, presents a second order ground state phase transition in the thermodynamic…