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We study the dynamics of correlations in a paradigmatic setup to observe $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric physics: a pair of coupled oscillators, one subject to a gain one to a loss. Starting from a coherent state, quantum correlations (QCs) are…

Recent work has shown that the entanglement of finite-temperature eigenstates in chaotic quantum many-body local Hamiltonians can be accurately described by an ensemble of random states with an internal $U(1)$ symmetry. We build upon this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-18 Angelo Russotto , Filiberto Ares , Pasquale Calabrese

When a quantum pure state is drawn uniformly at random from a Hilbert space, the state is typically highly entangled. This property of a random state is known as generic entanglement of quantum states and has been long investigated from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-23 Yoshifumi Nakata , Mio Murao

Spontaneous symmetry breaking has revolutionized the understanding in numerous fields of modern physics. Here, we theoretically demonstrate the spontaneous time-reversal symmetry breaking in a cavity quantum electrodynamics system in which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Yu-Kun Lu , Pai Peng , Qi-Tao Cao , Da Xu , Jan Wiersig , Qihuang Gong , Yun-Feng Xiao

We analyze the problem of how different ground states associated to the same set of the Hamiltonian parameters evolve after a sudden quench. To realize our analysis we define a quantitative approach to the local distinguishability between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-25 Salvatore Marco Giampaolo , Giuseppe Zonzo

Spontaneous symmetry breaking and more recently entanglement are two cornerstones of quantum matter. We introduce the notion of anisotropic entanglement ordered phases, where the spatial profile of spin-pseudospin entanglement spontaneously…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-28 Nilotpal Chakraborty , Roderich Moessner , Benoit Doucot

During the past decade, the experimental development of being able to create ever larger and heavier quantum superpositions has brought the discussion of the connection between microscopic quantum mechanics and macroscopic classical physics…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-04-29 Jasper van Wezel

Spontaneous symmetry breaking is well understood under equilibrium conditions as a consequence of the singularity of the thermodynamic limit. How a single global orientation of the order parameter dynamically emerges from an initially…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-12 Jasper van Wezel

We present a clear and mathematically simple procedure explaining spontaneous symmetry breaking in quantum mechanical systems. The procedure is applicable to a wide range of models and can be easily used to explain the existence of a…

Classical Physics · Physics 2010-04-29 Jasper van Wezel , Jeroen van den Brink

We prove the existence of spontaneous symmetry breaking in suitably low-energy eigenstates of certain gapless and frustrated many-body quantum systems, namely symmetric quantum perturbations to classical models which exhibit spontaneous…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-03-16 Chao Yin , Andrew Lucas

The apparent difficulty in recovering classical nonlinear dynamics and chaos from standard quantum mechanics has been the subject of a great deal of interest over the last twenty years. For open quantum systems - those coupled to a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. J. Everitt , T. D. Clark , P. B. Stiffell , J. F. Ralph , A. R. Bulsara , C. J. Harland

The concepts of symmetry, symmetry breaking and gauge symmetries are discussed, their operational meaning being displayed by the observables {\em and} the (physical) states. For infinitely extended systems the states fall into physically…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2015-07-03 Franco Strocchi

The aim of this paper is to propose a criterion of spontaneous symmetry breaking that makes reference to the properties of pure phases defined by a translationally invariant state. By avoiding any reference to the ground state, at the basis…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-07-08 Carlo Heissenberg , Franco Strocchi

In a quantum many-body system coupled to the environment, its steady state can exhibit spontaneous symmetry breaking when a control parameter exceeds a critical value. In this study, we consider spontaneous symmetry breaking in non-steady…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-12 Taiki Haga

We study the ground state (GS) many-body quantum entanglement of two different transverse field models on a quasi-2D square lattice relevant to a Hydrogen-bonded crystal, i.e, squaric acid. We measure the genuine multipartite…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-02-01 Vikas Vijigiri , K G Paulson , Saptarshi Mandal , A M Jayannavar

In a physical system undergoing a continuous quantum phase transition, spontaneous symmetry breaking occurs when certain symmetries of the Hamiltonian fail to be preserved in the ground state. In the traditional Landau theory, a symmetry…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2019-03-05 Marcel Bischoff , Corey Jones , Yuan-Ming Lu , David Penneys

Spontaneous breaking of continuous time translation symmetry into a discrete one is related to time crystal formation. While the phenomenon is not possible in the ground state of a time-independent many-body system, it can occur in an…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-08-21 Arkadiusz Kosior , Andrzej Syrwid , Krzysztof Sacha

We find that a bipartite quantum state is entangled if and only if it is quantum coherent with respect to complete bases of states in the corresponding system that are distinguishable under local quantum operations and classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-19 Asmitha Mekala , Ujjwal Sen

We show that classical states can emerge as pure ground state solutions of a quantum many-body system. We use a simple Hubbard model in 1D with strong short-range interactions and a second nearest neighbor hopping with N particles arranged…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-12-21 Ioannis Kleftogiannis , Ilias Amanatidis

The symmetries that govern the laws of nature can be spontaneously broken, enabling the occurrence of ordered states. Crystals arise from the breaking of translation symmetry, magnets from broken spin rotation symmetry and massive particles…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-04-29 Jasper van Wezel