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Time crystals appear when systems display a commensurate spontaneous breaking of the discrete time translational invariance imposed by an external periodic drive. No consensus on the definition has been reached as yet, but important aspects…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-01-18 Robin Schäfer , Götz S. Uhrig , Joachim Stolze

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 report a kind of quantum phase transition which takes place in isolated quantum systems with non-thermal equilibrium states and an extra symmetry that commutes with the Hamiltonian for any values of the system parameters. A critical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-08 Ricardo Puebla , Armando Relaño

It is proved that the energy absorption in a periodically driven classical spin system is exponentially slow in frequency, which results in a two-step relaxation called the Floquet prethermalization. This result is shown by establishing the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-09-19 Takashi Mori

Periodically driven quantum systems, known as Floquet systems, have been a focus of non-equilibrium physics in recent years, thanks to their rich dynamics. Not only time-periodic systems exhibit symmetries similar to those in spatially…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-01 Guoqing Wang , Changhao Li , Paola Cappellaro

We investigate the probability distribution of the quantum fluctuations of thermodynamic functions of finite, ballistic, phase-coherent Fermi gases. Depending on the chaotic or integrable nature of the underlying classical dynamics, on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 P. Leboeuf , A. G. Monastra

We systematically explore and show the existence of finite-temperature continuous quantum phase transition (CTQPT) at a critical point, namely, during solidification or melting such that the first-order thermal phase transition is a special…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-05-20 Andrew Das Arulsamy

The idea of breaking time-translation symmetry has fascinated humanity at least since ancient proposals of the perpetuum mobile. Unlike the breaking of other symmetries, such as spatial translation in a crystal or spin rotation in a magnet,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-10-28 Vedika Khemani , Roderich Moessner , S. L. Sondhi

We investigate a class of periodically driven many-body systems that allows us to extend the phenomenon of prethermalization to the vicinity of isolated intermediate-to-low drive frequencies away from the high-frequency limit. We provide…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-05-05 Christoph Fleckenstein , Marin Bukov

We show how a large family of interacting nonequilibrium phases of matter can arise from the presence of multiple time-translation symmetries, which occur by quasiperiodically driving an isolated quantum many-body system with two or more…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-05-14 Dominic V. Else , Wen Wei Ho , Philipp T. Dumitrescu

The purpose of this work is to discuss recent progress in deriving the fundamental laws of thermodynamics (0th, 1st and 2nd-law) from nonequilibrium quantum statistical mechanics. Basic thermodynamic notions are clarified and different…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Walid K. Abou Salem

We present a short derivation and discussion of the master equation for an open quantum system weakly coupled to a heat bath and then its generalization to the case of with periodic external driving based on the Floquet theory. Further, a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-05-22 Robert Alicki , David Gelbwaser-Klimovsky , Gershon Kurizki

Exceptional degeneracies and generically complex spectra of non-Hermitian systems are at the heart of numerous phenomena absent in the Hermitian realm. Recently, it was suggested that Floquet dissipative coupling in the space-time domain…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-01 Zimo Zhang , Fengbo Zhang , Zhongxiao Xu , Ying Hu , Han Bao , Heng Shen

A framework for the non-equilibrium thermodynamics of glasses is discussed. It also explains the non-equilibrium thermodynamics of a black hole isolated from matter. The first and second laws of black dynamics and black hole thermodynamics…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-08-23 Th. M. Nieuwenhuizen

The Heat theorem reveals the second law of equilibrium Thermodynamics (i.e.existence of Entropy) as a manifestation of a general property of Hamiltonian Mechanics and of the Ergodic Hypothesis, valid for 1 as well as $10^{23}$ degrees of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-02-01 Giovanni Gallavotti

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…

Recent efforts to deal with the complexities of the liquid state, particularly those of glassforming systems, have focused on the "energy landscape" as a means of dealing with the collective variables problem [1]. The "basins of attraction"…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 L. -M. Martinez , C. A. Angell

The fact that macroscopic systems approach thermal equilibrium may seem puzzling, for example, because it may seem to conflict with the time-reversibility of the microscopic dynamics. We here prove that in a macroscopic quantum system for a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-18 Sheldon Goldstein , Takashi Hara , Hal Tasaki

A key feature of non-equilibrium thermodynamics is the Markovian, deterministic relaxation of coarse observables such as, for example, the temperature difference between two macroscopic objects which evolves independently of almost all…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-04-08 Hendrik Niemeyer , Kristel Michielsen , Hans de Raedt , Jochen Gemmer

We will discuss various aspects of thermalization, chaos and hydrodynamics in one dimensional classical Hamiltonian systems. We study two problems. First, we will revisit the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou (FPUT) problem in order to understand…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2023-05-11 Santhosh Ganapa