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A sudden quantum quench of a Bloch band from one topological phase toward another has been shown to exhibit an intimate connection with the notion of a dynamical quantum phase transition (DQPT), where the returning probability of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-17 Zhoushen Huang , Alexander V. Balatsky

We present a characterization of quantum phase transitions in terms of the the overlap function between two ground states obtained for two different values of external parameters. On the examples of the Dicke and XY models, we show that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Paolo Zanardi , Nikola Paunković

We describe how to characterize dynamical phase transitions in open quantum systems from a purely dynamical perspective, namely, through the statistical behavior of quantum jump trajectories. This approach goes beyond considering only…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-04-26 Igor Lesanovsky , Merlijn van Horssen , Madalin Guta , Juan P. Garrahan

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

Dynamical Lie algebras (DLAs) have emerged as a valuable tool in the study of parameterized quantum circuits, helping to characterize both their expressiveness and trainability. In particular, the absence or presence of barren plateaus…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Jonathan Allcock , Miklos Santha , Pei Yuan , Shengyu Zhang

It is shown that dynamical quantum phase transitions observed as singularities in the Loschmidt rate singularities bear close resemblance to standard Rabi oscillations known from dynamics of two-level systems. For some many-body systems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-14 Jakub Zakrzewski

We explore the possibility of dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs) occurring during the temporal evolution of a quenched transverse field Ising chain coupled to a particle loss type of bath (local in Jordan-Wigner fermion space)…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-08-13 Souvik Bandyopadhyay , Sudarshana Laha , Utso Bhattacharya , Amit Dutta

We investigate the monitored dynamics of many-body quantum systems in which projective measurements of extensive operators are alternated with unitary evolution. Focusing on mean-field models characterized by all-to-all interactions, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-05 Luca Capizzi , Riccardo Travaglino

Phase transitions have recently been formulated in the time domain of quantum many-body systems, a phenomenon dubbed dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs), whose phenomenology is often divided in two types. One refers to distinct…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Ricardo Puebla

The Landau paradigm is a central dogma for understanding phase and phase transitions in condensed matter systems, yet for decades it has been known that a variety of quantum phases exist beyond the framework. Is there a more general…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-15 Xie Chen

We introduce a general framework of phase reduction theory for quantum nonlinear oscillators. By employing the quantum trajectory theory, we define the limit-cycle trajectory and the phase according to a stochastic Schr\"{o}dinger equation.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-01 Wataru Setoyama , Yoshihiko Hasegawa

Quantum Approximate Optimization algorithm (QAOA) aims to search for approximate solutions to discrete optimization problems with near-term quantum computers. As there are no algorithmic guarantee possible for QAOA to outperform classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-25 Bingzhi Zhang , Akira Sone , Quntao Zhuang

Dynamical quantum phase transitions are at the forefront of current efforts to understand quantum matter out of equilibrium. Except for a few exactly solvable models, predictions of these critical phenomena typically rely on advanced…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-07-18 Fredrik Brange , Sebastiano Peotta , Christian Flindt , Teemu Ojanen

We show that phase transitions in the quantum $q$-state clock model for $q \leq 4$ can be characterized by an enhanced decay behavior of the Loschmidt echo via a small quench. The quantum criticality of the quantum $q$-state clock model is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-04-19 Jia-Chen Tang , Wen-Long You , Myung-Joong Hwang , Gaoyong Sun

A monitored quantum system undergoing a cyclic evolution of the parameters governing its Hamiltonian accumulates a geometric phase that depends on the quantum trajectory followed by the system on its evolution. The phase value will be…

The Loschmidt echo, defined as the overlap between quantum wave function evolved with different Hamiltonians, quantifies the sensitivity of quantum dynamics to perturbations and is often used as a probe of quantum chaos. In this work we…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-07-14 Maksym Serbyn , Dmitry A. Abanin

Quantum theory provides an extensive framework for the description of the equilibrium properties of quantum matter. Yet experiments in quantum simulators have now opened up a route towards generating quantum states beyond this equilibrium…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-04-24 Markus Heyl

In an open system, the geometric phase should be described by a distribution. We show that a geometric phase distribution for open system dynamics is in general ambiguous, but the imposition of reasonable physical constraints on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. -P. Marzlin , S. Ghose , B. C. Sanders

Understanding quantum phase transitions in physical systems is fundamental to characterize their behavior at low temperatures. Achieving this requires both accessing good approximations to the ground state and identifying order parameters…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-06 Chenfeng Cao , Filippo Maria Gambetta , Ashley Montanaro , Raul A. Santos

Using the diagonal entropy, we analyze the dynamical signatures of the Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick (LMG) model excited-state quantum phase transition (ESQPT). We first show that the time evolution of the diagonal entropy behaves as an efficient…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-25 Qian Wang , Francisco Pérez-Bernal