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We inspect signatures of dynamical quantum phase transitions driven by two types of quenches acting on a correlated quantum dot embedded between superconducting and metallic reservoirs. Under stationary conditions the proximity induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-29 Kacper Wrześniewski , Ireneusz Weymann , Nicholas Sedlmayr , Tadeusz Domański

Dynamical phase transitions (DPTs) are signaled by the non-analytical time evolution of the dynamical free energy after quenching some global parameters in quantum systems. The dynamical free energy is calculated from the overlap between…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-03-04 R. Jafari

We analytically investigated the dynamical quantum phase transitions in the Bose-Hubbard model using the Loschmidt echo as an observable, revealing that after a quench, the global Loschmidt echo exhibits cusp singularities with a…

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

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

Dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs) are manifested by time-domain nonanalytic behaviors of many-body systems.Introducing a quench is so far understood as a typical scenario to induce DQPTs.In this work, we discover a novel type of…

Interacting many-body systems that are driven far away from equilibrium can exhibit phase transitions between dynamically emerging quantum phases, which manifest as singularities in the Loschmidt echo. Whether and under which conditions…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-11-08 Simon A. Weidinger , Markus Heyl , Alessandro Silva , Michael Knap

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…

We formulate dynamical phase transitions in subsystems embedded in larger quantum systems. Introducing the entanglement echo as an overlap of the initial and instantaneous entanglement ground states, we show its analytic structure after a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-21 Kim Pöyhönen , Teemu Ojanen

We report dynamical quantum phase transition portrait in the alternating field transverse XY spin chain with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction by investigating singularities in the Loschmidt echo and the corresponding rate function after a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-16 Stav Haldar , Saptarshi Roy , Titas Chanda , Aditi Sen De , Ujjwal Sen

Signaled by non-analyticities in the time evolution of physical observables, dynamic quantum phase transitions (DQPTs) emerge in quench dynamics of topological systems and possess an interesting geometric origin captured by dynamic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-23 Kunkun Wang , Xingze Qiu , Lei Xiao , Xiang Zhan , Zhihao Bian , Wei Yi , Peng Xue

Dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs) are criticalities in the time evolution of quantum systems and their existence has been theoretically predicted and experimentally observed. However, how the system behaves in the vicinity of DQPT…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-06-20 Cheuk Yiu Wong , Wing Chi Yu

Dynamical quantum phase transitions can occur following quenches in quantum systems when the rate function, a dynamical analogue of the free energy, becomes non-analytic at critical times. Here we exhaustively investigate in an exemplary…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-10-20 Hadi Cheraghi , Nicholas Sedlmayr

We study dynamical phase transitions (DPTs) in quantum many-body systems with infinite-range interaction, and present a theory connecting the two kinds of known DPTs (sometimes referred to as DPTs-I and DPTs-II) with the concept of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-07-29 Ángel L. Corps , Armando Relaño

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 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

An exactly solvable Kitaev model in a two-dimensional square lattice exhibits a topological quantum phase transition which is different from the symmetry-breaking transition at zero temperature. When the ground state of a nonlinearly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-11 Leela Ganesh Chandra Lakkaraju , Sudip Kumar Haldar , Aditi Sen De

In most lattice models, the closing of a band gap typically occurs at high-symmetry points in the Brillouin zone. Differently, in the Creutz model $-$ describing a system of spinless fermions hopping on a two-leg ladder pierced by a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-12 R. Jafari , Henrik Johannesson , A. Langari , M. A. Martin-Delgado

Dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs), which serve as a theoretical framework for understanding far-from-equilibrium physics in quantum many-body systems, have recently been observed experimentally. Their topological properties are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-07 Bao-Ming Xu

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

In this paper, we investigate the dynamical quantum phase transitions appearing in the Loschmidt echo and the time-dependent order parameter of a quantum system of harmonically coupled degenerate bosons as a function of the power-law decay…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-02-16 Marvin Syed , Tilman Enss , Nicolò Defenu