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Confinement is an intriguing phenomenon prevalent in condensed matter and high-energy physics. Exploring its effect on the far-from-equilibrium criticality of quantum many-body systems is of great interest both from a fundamental and…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-10-20 Jesse Osborne , Ian P. McCulloch , Jad C. Halimeh

By using worldline and diagrammatic quantum Monte Carlo techniques, matrix product state and a variational approach \`a la Feynman, we investigate the equilibrium properties and relaxation features of a quantum system of $N$ spins…

We control quantum fluctuations to create the ground state magnetic phases of a classical Ising model with a tunable longitudinal magnetic field using a system of 6 to 10 atomic ion spins. Due to the long-range Ising interactions, the…

Characterizing quantum many-body phase structure is a major goal for quantum simulation. Here, we employ an unsupervised learning approach based on diffusion maps to learn phase transitions in bosonic lattice systems described by…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-05-04 Bihui Zhu

Pump-probe spectroscopy is a powerful tool for probing response dynamics of quantum many-body systems in and out-of-equilibrium. Quantum computers have proved useful in simulating such experiments by exciting the system, evolving, and then…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-01 Heba A. Labib , Goksu Can Toga , J. K. Freericks , A. F. Kemper

We investigate two separate notions of dynamical phase transitions in the two-dimensional nearest-neighbor transverse-field Ising model on a square lattice using matrix product states and a new \textit{hybrid} infinite time-evolving block…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-04-21 Tomohiro Hashizume , Ian P. McCulloch , Jad C. Halimeh

The comprehension of quantum phase transitions (QPTs) is considered as a critical foothold in the field of many-body physics. Developing protocols to effectively identify and understand QPTs thus represents a key but challenging task for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-03 Xiangbei Li , Yaoming Chu , Shaoliang Zhang , Jianming Cai

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

Quantum phase transitions are highly remarkable phenomena manifesting in quantum many-body systems. However, their precise identifications in equilibrium systems pose significant theoretical and experimental challenges. Thus far, dynamical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-16 Kaito Kobayashi , Yukitoshi Motome

Superconducting circuits are currently developed as a versatile platform for the exploration of many-body physics, by building on non-linear elements that are often idealized as two-level qubits. A classic example is given by a charge qubit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-20 Kuljeet Kaur , Théo Sépulcre , Nicolas Roch , Izak Snyman , Serge Florens , Soumya Bera

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

We analyze the behavior of steady-state quantum correlations (QCs) in the spin-1/2 transverse field XY chains analytically, in terms of quench dynamics at zero-temperature. We show that steady-state QCs are strikingly greater than the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-14 Sasan Kheiri , Hadi Cheraghi , Saeed Mahdavifar

The manipulation of quantum information in large systems requires precise control of quantum systems that are out-of-equilibrium. As the size of the system increases, its fragility in response to external perturbations and intrinsic…

We establish an intriguing connection between quantum phase transitions and bifurcations in the reduced fidelity between two different reduced density matrices for quantum lattice many-body systems with symmetry-breaking orders. Our finding…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-05-20 Jin-Hua Liu , Qian-Qian Shi , Jian-Hui Zhao , Huan-Qiang Zhou

We investigate the non-equilibrium behavior of a fully-connected (or all-to-all coupled) Bose-Hubbard model after a Mott to superfluid quench, in the limit of large boson densities and for an arbitrary number $V$ of lattice sites, with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-06 Andrea Pizzi , Fabrizio Dolcini , Karyn Le Hur

Can the properties of the thermodynamic limit of a many-body quantum system be extrapolated by analysing a sequence of finite-size cases? We present a model for which such an approach gives completely misleading results: a translationally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-06 Johannes Bausch , Toby S. Cubitt , Angelo Lucia , David Perez-Garcia , Michael M. Wolf

Quantum criticality is the intriguing possibility offered by the laws of quantum mechanics when the wave function of a many-particle physical system is forced to evolve continuously between two distinct, competing ground states. This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Nicolas Roch , Serge Florens , Vincent Bouchiat , Wolfgang Wernsdorfer , Franck Balestro

This colloquium gives an overview of recent theoretical and experimental progress in the area of nonequilibrium dynamics of isolated quantum systems. We particularly focus on quantum quenches: the temporal evolution following a sudden or…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-09-29 Anatoli Polkovnikov , Krishnendu Sengupta , Alessandro Silva , Mukund Vengalattore

We investigate the quantum phase transition (QPT) in the XXZ central spin model, which can be described as a spin-1/2 particle coupled to N bath spins. In general, the QPT is supposed to occur only in the thermodynamical limit. In contrast,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-01 Lei Shao , Rui Zhang , Wangjun Lu , Zhucheng Zhang , Xiaoguang Wang

In the context of closed quantum systems, when a system prepared in its ground state undergoes a sudden quench, the resulting Loschmidt echo can exhibit zeros, resembling the Fisher zeros in the theory of classical equilibrium phase…