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Dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs) are non-equilibrium transitions characterized by the orthogonality between an initial quantum state and its time-evolved counterpart following a sudden quench. Recently, studies of this phenomenon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Kai Zhang , Chang Shu , Kai Sun

Dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs) have been established as a rigorous framework for investigating far-from-equilibrium quantum many-body criticality. Although initially thought to be trivially connected to an order parameter…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-07-08 Jesse J. Osborne , Johannes Knaute , Ian P. McCulloch , Jad C. Halimeh

The dynamical quantum phase transition (DQPT) is an important concept in nonequilibrium critical phenomena; however, its relation to the equilibrium quantum phase transition (EQPT) remains obscure. Substantial evidence has suggested that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-15 Yumeng Zeng , Shu Chen

The thermodynamics of quantum phase transitions has long been a rich area of research, providing numerous insights and enhancing our understanding of this important phenomenon. This theoretical framework has been well-developed specially…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-05 Andesson B. Nascimento , Lucas C. Céleri

This work investigates dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs) in a one-dimensional Ising model subjected to a periodically modulated transverse field. In contrast to sudden quenches, we demonstrate that a DQPT can be induced in two…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-25 Yuanyuan Cheng , Yuxia Zhang , Tianhui Qiu , Peipei Xin , Bao-Ming Xu

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

Quantum phase transitions have long been studied in their relation to quantum fluctuations. These fluctuations can be quantified as the degree of spin squeezing in spin models, where one of the two non-commutative observables breaks the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-08-11 Cheuk Yiu Wong , Hadi Cheraghi , Wing Chi Yu

Dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs), which refer to the criticality in time of a quantum many-body system, have attracted much theoretical and experimental research interest recently. Despite DQPTs are defined and signalled by the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-08-11 Wing Chi Yu , P. D. Sacramento , Yan Chao Li , Hai-Qing Lin

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

We present a theory for the two kinds of dynamical quantum phase transitions, termed DPT-I and DPT-II, based on a minimal set of symmetry assumptions. In the special case of collective systems with infinite-range interactions, both are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-03-10 Ángel L. Corps , Armando Relaño

Dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs) are an exciting paradigm of out-of-equilibrium criticality in many-body systems manifested in nonanalytic behavior in the return rate to the initial state following a sudden quench. While previous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Jesse J. Osborne , Cheuk Yiu Wong , Jad C. Halimeh

This work is concerned with the excited state quantum phase transitions (ESQPTs) defined in Ann.Phys. 323, 1106 (2008). In many-body models that exhibit such transitions, the ground state quantum phase transition (QPT) occurs in parallel…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-01-08 Francisco Pérez-Bernal , Lea F. Santos

Dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs) are a class of non-equilibrium phase transitions that occur in many-body quantum systems during real-time evolution, rather than through parameter tuning as in conventional phase transitions. This…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-02 Manmeet Kaur , Somendra M. Bhattacharjee

We investigate the robustness of a dynamical phase transition against quantum fluctuations by studying the impact of a ferromagnetic nearest-neighbour spin interaction in one spatial dimension on the non-equilibrium dynamical phase diagram…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-04-09 A. Lerose , J. Marino , B. Zunkovic , A. Gambassi , A. Silva

The quantum ferromagnetic transition at zero temperature in disordered itinerant electron systems is considered. Nonmagnetic quenched disorder leads to diffusive electron dynamics that induces an effective long-range interaction between the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-28 T. R. Kirkpatrick , D. Belitz

A quantum critical point (QCP) is a singularity in the phase diagram arising due to quantum mechanical fluctuations. The exotic properties of some of the most enigmatic physical systems, including unconventional metals and superconductors,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-05-13 P. Merchant , B. Normand , K. W. Krämer , M. Boehm , D. F. McMorrow , Ch. Rüegg

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

Quantum phase transitions occur at zero temperature when some non-thermal control-parameter like pressure or chemical composition is changed. They are driven by quantum rather than thermal fluctuations. In this review we first give a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-09-27 Thomas Vojta

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

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