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Discrete quantum walks are periodically driven systems with discrete time evolution. In contrast to ordinary Floquet systems, no microscopic Hamiltonian exists, and the one-period time evolution is given directly by a series of unitary…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-10 Ken Mochizuki , Takumi Bessho , Masatoshi Sato , Hideaki Obuse

Floquet dynamical quantum phase transitions (FDQPTs) reveal many nonequilibrium critical phenomena in periodically driven quantum systems, and their underlying mechanisms have attracted deep attention in recent years. In this paper, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-22 Wen-Hui Nie , Mei-Yu Zhang , Lin-Cheng Wang , Chong Li

Discrete-step walks describe the dynamics of particles in a lattice subject to hopping or splitting events at discrete times. Despite being of primordial interest to the physics of quantum walks, the topological properties arising from…

Quantum walks have wide applications in quantum information, such as universal quantum computation, so it is important to explore properties of quantum walks thoroughly. We propose a novel method to implement discrete-time quantum walks…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-09 Qi-Ping Su , Shi-Chao Wang , Yan Chi , Yong-Nan Sun , Li Yu , Zhe Sun , Franco Nori , Chui-Ping Yang

Quantum walks represent paradigmatic quantum evolutions, enabling powerful applications in the context of topological physics and quantum computation. They have been implemented in diverse photonic architectures, but the realization of a…

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

Dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs) are non-equilibrium transitions characterized by the orthogonality between an initial quantum state and its time-evolved counterpart following a sudden quench. Recently, studies of this phenomenon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Kai Zhang , Chang Shu , Kai Sun

Quantum simulator with the ability to harness the dynamics of complex quantum systems has emerged as a promising platform for probing exotic topological phases. Since the flexibility offered by various controllable quantum systems has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-11 Bing Chen , Shuo Li , Xianfei Hou , Feifei Zhou , Peng Qian , Feng Mei , Suotang Jia , Nanyang Xu , Heng Shen

Dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs) are a powerful concept of probing far-from-equilibrium criticality in quantum many-body systems. With the strong ongoing experimental drive to quantum-simulate lattice gauge theories, it becomes…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-12-13 Maarten Van Damme , Torsten V. Zache , Debasish Banerjee , Philipp Hauke , Jad C. Halimeh

The dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs) in quantum spin chains with gapless phases after a sudden quench are studied. We mainly consider the general systems with asymmetrical quasiparticle excitation spectra and obtain the general…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-06-02 Kaiyuan Cao , Zhong Ming , Peiqing Tong

Many phenomena in solid-state physics can be understood in terms of their topological properties. Recently, controlled protocols of quantum walks are proving to be effective simulators of such phenomena. Here we report the realization of a…

Dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs) probe the nonequilibrium evolution of quantum systems, unveiling their geometric and topological characteristics. In this study, we introduce the concepts of parallel quench and dynamic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-06 Jia-Chen Tang , Xu-Yang Hou , Hao Guo

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

The quantum walk is a dynamical protocol which describes the motion of spinful particles on a lattice. Also, it has been demonstrated to be a powerful platform to explore topological quantum matter. Recently, the quantum walk in coherent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-19 Zi-Yong Ge , Heng Fan

Dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs) extend the concept of phase transitions and thus universality to the non-equilibrium regime. In this letter, we investigate DQPTs in a string of ions simulating interacting transverse-field Ising…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-30 P. Jurcevic , H. Shen , P. Hauke , C. Maier , T. Brydges , C. Hempel , B. P. Lanyon , M. Heyl , R. Blatt , C. F. Roos

Topological matter exhibits exotic properties yet phases characterized by large topological invariants are difficult to implement, despite rapid experimental progress. A promising route toward higher topological invariants is via engineered…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-02 Lei Xiao , Xingze Qiu , Kunkun Wang , Zhihao Bian , Xiang Zhan , Hideaki Obuse , Barry C. Sanders , Wei Yi , Peng Xue

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

We study the simulation of the topological phases in three subsequent dimensions with quantum walks. We are mainly focused on the completion of a table for the protocols of the quantum walk that could simulate different family of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-13 S. Panahiyan , S. Fritzsche

Discrete time crystals are related to non-equilibrium dynamics of periodically driven quantum many-body systems where the discrete time translation symmetry of the Hamiltonian is spontaneously broken into another discrete symmetry.…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-05-31 Arkadiusz Kosior , Krzysztof Sacha

Quantum walks contribute significantly to developing quantum algorithms and quantum simulations. Here, we introduce a first of its kind one-dimensional quantum walk in the $d$-dimensional quantum domain, where $d>2$, and show its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-04 Amit Saha , Debasri Saha , Amlan Chakrabarti