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We study the Fluctuation Theorem (FT) for entropy production in chaotic discrete-time dynamical systems on compact metric spaces, and extend it to empirical measures, all continuous potentials, and all weak Gibbs states. In particular, we…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-02-13 Noé Cuneo , Vojkan Jakšić , Claude-Alain Pillet , Armen Shirikyan

Conformal field theory (CFT) has been extremely successful in describing large-scale universal effects in one-dimensional (1D) systems at quantum critical points. Unfortunately, its applicability in condensed matter physics has been limited…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-02-15 Jérôme Dubail , Jean-Marie Stéphan , Jacopo Viti , Pasquale Calabrese

In this work, we study the time evolution of the entanglement hamiltonian during the process of thermalization in a (1+1)-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT) after a quantum quench from a special class of initial states. In particular,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-12-05 Xueda Wen , Shinsei Ryu , Andreas W. W. Ludwig

In this work, motivated by the sine-square deformation (SSD) for (1+1)-dimensional quantum critical systems, we study the non-equilibrium quantum dynamics of a conformal field theory (CFT) with SSD, which was recently proposed to have…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-06-13 Xueda Wen , Jie-Qiang Wu

We investigate the phase structure and conductivity of a relativistic fluid in a circulating electric field with a transverse magnetic field. This system exhibits behavior similar to other driven systems such as strongly coupled driven CFTs…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-10-17 Andrew Baumgartner , Michael Spillane

We study a dynamical phase transition in optical bistable systems subject to a time-periodic driving field. The phase transition occurs in the structure of limit cycle as a function of the frequency of the driving field. In the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-01-13 Tatsuhiko Shirai , Synge Todo , Seiji Miyashita

The competition between unitary time-evolution and quantum measurements could induce phase transitions in the entanglement characteristics of quantum many-body dynamics. In this work, we reveal such entanglement transitions in the context…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-24 Longwen Zhou

Floquet systems are governed by periodic, time-dependent, Hamiltonians. Prima facie they should absorb energy from the external drives involved in modulating their couplings and heat up to infinite temperature. However this unhappy state of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-10-05 Fenner Harper , Rahul Roy , Mark S. Rudner , S. L. Sondhi

Cluster states were introduced in the context of measurement based quantum computing. In one dimension, the cluster Hamiltonian possesses topologically protected states. We investigate the Floquet dynamics of the cluster spin chain in an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-10 Alberto D. Verga

We establish the emergence of a conformal field theory (CFT) in a (1+1)-dimensional hybrid quantum circuit right at the measurement-driven entanglement transition by revealing space-time conformal covariance of entanglement entropies and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 Yaodong Li , Xiao Chen , Andreas W. W. Ludwig , Matthew P. A. Fisher

We study the dynamical evolution of strongly coupled field theories, initially in thermal equilibrium, under the influence of an external driving force. We model the field theory holographically using classical gravitational dynamics in an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-20 Mukund Rangamani , Moshe Rozali , Anson Wong

We will explore the dynamical property of non-equilibrium phenomena induced by two-dimensional holographic conformal field theory (2d holographic CFT) Hamiltonian on the curved spacetime by studying the time dependence of the entanglement…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-31 Chen Bai , Akihiro Miyata , Masahiro Nozaki

This work explores a fundamental dynamical structure for a wide range of many-body quantum systems under periodic driving. Generically, in the thermodynamic limit, such systems are known to heat up to infinite temperature states after…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-15 Tomotaka Kuwahara , Takashi Mori , Keiji Saito

Understanding the mechanisms by which complex correlations emerge through the dynamics of quantum many-body systems remains a fundamental challenge in modern physics. To address this, quench dynamics starting from nonthermal states have…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-22 Zixia Wei , Yasushi Yoneta

Floquet modulations often yield effective Hamiltonians not easily accessible in traditional time-dependent systems, which brings opportunities for exploring novel physics of quantum dynamics. We investigate a Floquet system exhibiting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-17 Suyang Lin , Ming Gong , Congjun Wu

The nature of the dynamical quantum phase transition between the many-body localized (MBL) phase and the thermal phase remains an open question, and one line of attack on this problem is to explore this transition numerically in finite-size…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-12-21 Liangsheng Zhang , Vedika Khemani , David A. Huse

We study the entanglement dynamics of a one-dimensional spin chain subject to a local Floquet drive of a two-site impurity. We uncover a sharp transition in the entanglement dynamics as a function of the driving frequency. For large drive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-27 Zhi-Xing Lin , Abhinav Prem , Shinsei Ryu , Bastien Lapierre

Conformal field theories (CFTs) feature prominently in high-energy physics, statistical mechanics, and condensed matter. For example, CFTs govern emergent universal properties of systems tuned to quantum phase transitions, including their…

We study the dynamics of entanglement asymmetry in periodically driven quantum systems. Using a periodically driven XY chain as a model for a driven integrable quantum system, we provide semi-analytic results for the behavior of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-09 Tista Banerjee , Suchetan Das , K. Sengupta

In this paper, we discuss the entanglement phase transition of pseudo entropy in CFTs. We focus on the case where the in-state and the out-state are different boundary states related by boundary condition changing operators. We compute the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-13 Hiroki Kanda , Tadashi Takayanagi , Zixia Wei