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In this work we develop the theory of the Loschmidt echo and dynamical phase transitions in non-interacting strongly disordered Fermi systems after a quench. In finite systems the Loschmidt echo displays zeros in the complex time plane that…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-09-23 Tuomas I. Vanhala , Teemu Ojanen

Motivated by the advance of dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs), we analyze the zeros of the complex-time survival (Loschmidt) amplitude in finite quantum systems and develop a general framework for their approximation based on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-11 Jakub Novotný , Jan Střeleček , Pavel Stránský , Pavel Cejnar

Dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs) are temporal singularities marked by zeros of the Loschmidt echo, yet their underlying quantum-information structure remains elusive. Here, we introduce a momentum-resolved entanglement entropy as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Kaiyuan Cao , Mingzhi Li , Xiang-Ping Jiang , Shu Chen , Jian Wang

Dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs) are a powerful concept of probing far-from-equilibrium criticality in quantum many-body systems. With the strong ongoing experimental drive to quantum-simulate lattice gauge theories, it becomes…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-12-13 Maarten Van Damme , Torsten V. Zache , Debasish Banerjee , Philipp Hauke , Jad C. Halimeh

We propose a protocol to tailor dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs) by double-mode squeezing onto the initial state in the XY chain. The effect of squeezing depends critically on the system's symmetry and parameters. When the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Kaiyuan Cao , Haodong Wang , Xiang-Ping Jiang , Shu chen , Jian Wang

Global quenches of quantum many-body models can give rise to periodic dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs) directly connected to the zeros of a Landau order parameter (OP). The associated dynamics has been argued to bear close…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-15 Maarten Van Damme , Jean-Yves Desaules , Zlatko Papić , Jad C. Halimeh

Floquet dynamical quantum phase transitions (FDQPTs) reveal many nonequilibrium critical phenomena in periodically driven quantum systems, and their underlying mechanisms have attracted deep attention in recent years. In this paper, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-22 Wen-Hui Nie , Mei-Yu Zhang , Lin-Cheng Wang , Chong Li

In closed quantum systems, a dynamical phase transition is identified by nonanalytic behaviors of the return probability as a function of time. In this work, we study the nonunitary dynamics following quenches across exceptional points in a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-08-29 Longwen Zhou , Qing-hai Wang , Hailong Wang , Jiangbin Gong

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

In this work it is shown that dynamical quantum phase transitions in Loschmidt echos control the nonequilibrium dynamics of the order parameter after particular quantum quenches in systems with broken-symmetry phases. A direct connection…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-11-24 Markus Heyl

We investigate the nonequilibrium quench dynamics of the one-dimensional transverse-field Ising model in both integrable and nonintegrable regimes. In particular, we report on a novel type of dynamical quantum phase transition (DQPT) that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-18 Jie Chen , Ricardo Costa de Almeida , Hendrik Weimer

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

Discrete time crystals are related to non-equilibrium dynamics of periodically driven quantum many-body systems where the discrete time translation symmetry of the Hamiltonian is spontaneously broken into another discrete symmetry.…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-05-31 Arkadiusz Kosior , Krzysztof Sacha

We consider sudden quenches across quantum phase transitions in the $S=1$ XXZ model starting from the Haldane phase. We demonstrate that dynamical phase transitions may occur during these quenches that are identified by nonanalyticities in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-07-02 I. Hagymási , C. Hubig , Ö. Legeza , U. Schollwöck

Floquet dynamical quantum phase transitions (FDQPTs) are signified by recurrent nonanalytic behaviors of observables in time. In this work, we introduce a quench-free and generic approach to engineer and control FDQPTs for both pure and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-09-30 J. Naji , R. Jafari , Longwen Zhou , A. Langari

Dynamical phase transitions (DPT) are characterized by nonanalytical time evolution of the dynamical free energy. For general 2-band systems in one and two dimensions (eg. SSH model, Kitaev-chain, Haldane model, p+ip superconductor, etc.),…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-04-22 Szabolcs Vajna , Balázs Dóra

The standard Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick (LMG) model undergoes a second-order ground-state quantum phase transition (QPT) and an excited-state quantum phase transition (ESQPT). The inclusion of an anharmonic term in the LMG Hamiltonian gives rise…

We report on the theoretical investigation of the topological properties of a periodically quenched one-dimensional dimerized lattice where a piece-wise constant Hamiltonian switches from $h_1$ to $h_2$ at a partition time $t_p$ within each…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-28 Milad Jangjan , Luis E. F. Foa Torres , Mir Vahid Hosseini

We have constructed a general theory describing the topological quantum phase transitions in 3D systems with broken inversion symmetry. While the consideration of the system's codimension generally predicts the appearance of a stable…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-05 Bohm-Jung Yang , Mohammad Saeed Bahramy , Ryotaro Arita , Hiroki Isobe , Eun-Gook Moon , Naoto Nagaosa

Using tensor network methods, we simulate the real-time evolution of the lattice Thirring model quenched out of equilibrium in both the critical and massive phases and study the appearance of dynamical quantum phase transitions, as…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-06-25 Mari Carmen Bañuls , Krzysztof Cichy , Hao-Ti Hung , Ying-Jer Kao , C. -J. David Lin , Amit Singh