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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

We present an exact renormalization group analysis of the Loschmidt amplitude of the quantum $N$-state Potts chain with random quench-disordered nearest neighbor bonds, under the extreme dynamical quantum quench. We prove that the phase…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-08-14 Yantao Wu

In the context of nonequilibrium quantum thermodynamics, variables like work behave stochastically. A particular definition of the work probability density function (pdf) for coherent quantum processes allows the verification of the quantum…

We study the full distribution of quantum work in generic, noninteracting, disordered fermionic nanosystems at finite temperature. We derive an analytical determinant formula for the characteristic function of work statistics for quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-18 András Grabarits , Márton Kormos , Izabella Lovas , Gergely Zaránd

We study the statistics of work, dissipation, and entropy production of a quantum quasi-isothermal process, where the system remains close to the thermal equilibrium along the transformation. We derive a general analytic expression for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Matteo Scandi , Harry J. D. Miller , Janet Anders , Marti Perarnau-Llobet

We examine the dynamics after a sudden quench in the magnetic field of the Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick model. Starting from the groundstate and by employing the time-dependent fidelity, we see manifestly different dynamics are present if the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-07 Steve Campbell

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 the universality of work statistics performed during a quench in gapless quantum systems. We show that the cumulants of work scale separately in the fast and slow quench regimes, following a power law analogous to the universal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-21 Donny Dwiputra , Mir Faizal , Francesco Marino , Freddy P. Zen

The entropy produced when a system undergoes an infinitesimal quench is directly linked to the work parameter susceptibility, making it sensitive to the existence of a quantum critical point. Its singular behavior at $T=0$, however,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-13 Adalberto D. Varizi , Raphael C. Drumond , Gabriel T. Landi

We study the quantum phase diagram and the onset of quantum critical phenomena in a generalized Dicke model that includes collective qubit-qubit interactions. By employing semiclassical techniques, we analyze the corresponding classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-21 Ricardo Herrera Romero , Miguel Angel Bastarrachea-Magnani , Román Linares

By deriving a general framework and analyzing concrete examples, we demonstrate a class of dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs) in one-dimensional two-band systems going through double-quench processes. When this type of DQPT occurs,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-05 Xu-Yang Hou , Qu-Cheng Gao , Hao Guo , Chih-Chun Chien

The investigation of nonequilibrium thermodynamics in quantum many-body systems underscores the importance of quantum work, which differs from its classical counterpart due to its statistical nature. Recent studies have shown that quantum…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-08 Kwai-Kong Ng , Min-Fong Yang

Determining the role of initial conditions in the late time evolution is a key issue for the theory of nonequilibrium dynamics of isolated quantum systems. Here we extend the theory of quantum quenches to the case in which before the quench…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-09-13 Gesualdo Delfino , Marianna Sorba

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

Out of equilibrium quantum systems, on top of quantum fluctuations, display complex temporal patterns. Such time fluctuations are generically exponentially small in the system volume and can be therefore safely ignored in most of the cases.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-12 Lorenzo Campos Venuti , Paolo Zanardi

Dynamical phase transitions can occur in isolated quantum systems that are brought out of equilibrium by sudden parameter changes. We discuss the characterization of such dynamical phase transitions based on the statistics of produced…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-03 Pietro Smacchia , Michael Knap , Eugene Demler , Alessandro Silva

The dipole-coupled two-level atoms(qubits) in a single-mode resonant cavity is studied by extended bosonic coherent states. The numerically exact solution is presented. For finite systems, the first-order quantum phase transitions occur at…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Qing-Hu Chen , Tao Liu , Yu-Yu Zhang , Ke-Lin Wang

The time dependence of one-dimensional quantum mechanical probability densities is presented when the potential in which a particle moves is suddenly changed, called a quench. Quantum quenches are mainly addressed but a comparison with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-18 K. Schönhammer

We study quenching dynamics of a one-dimensional transverse Ising chain with nearest neighbor antiferromagentic interactions in the presence of a longitudinal field which renders the model non-integrable. The dynamics of the spin chain is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-10-07 Shraddha Sharma , Sei Suzuki , Amit Dutta

Quantum coherence will undoubtedly play a fundamental role in understanding of the dynamics of quantum many-body systems, thereby to reveal its genuine contribution is of great importance. In this paper, we specialize our discussions to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-12 Bao-Ming Xu , Chao-Quan Wang