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Dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs) represent a counterpart in non-equilibrium quantum time evolution of thermal phase transitions at equilibrium, where real time becomes analogous to a control parameter such as temperature. In…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-01-01 Christian B. Mendl , Jan Carl Budich

The analogy between an equilibrium partition function and the return probability in many-body unitary dynamics has led to the concept of dynamical quantum phase transition (DQPT). DQPTs are defined by non-analyticities in the return…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-02 Stefano De Nicola , Alexios A. Michailidis , Maksym Serbyn

Considerable theoretical and experimental efforts have been devoted to the quench dynamics, in particular, the dynamical quantum phase transition (DQPT) and the steady-state transition. These developments have motivated us to study the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-03-30 Pei Wang , Gao Xianlong

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

In this work we develop the theory of the Loschmidt echo and dynamical phase transitions in non-interacting strongly disordered Fermi systems after a quench. In finite systems the Loschmidt echo displays zeros in the complex time plane that…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-09-23 Tuomas I. Vanhala , Teemu Ojanen

Phase transitions in nonequilibrium dynamics of many body quantum systems,the so-called dynamical phases transition (DPTs), play an important role for understanding various dynamical phenomena observed in different branches of physics.In…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-03-04 Zhen-Xia Niu , Qian Wang

The Loschmidt echo - the probability of a quantum many-body system to return to its initial state following a dynamical evolution - generally contains key information about a quantum system, relevant across various scientific fields…

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

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 establish a unified framework for dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs) in non-Hermitian systems that encompasses both biorthogonal and self-norm non-biorthogonal formulations for pure and mixed states under quantum quench…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-27 Yongxu Fu , Gao Xianlong

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 dynamical phase transitions (DPT) in the driven and damped Dicke model, realizable for example by a driven atomic ensemble collectively coupled to a damped cavity mode. These DPTs are characterized by non-analyticities of certain…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-07 Valentin Link , Walter T. Strunz

Motivated by the advance of dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs), we analyze the zeros of the complex-time survival (Loschmidt) amplitude in finite quantum systems and develop a general framework for their approximation based on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-11 Jakub Novotný , Jan Střeleček , Pavel Stránský , Pavel Cejnar

We show that dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs) in the quench dynamics of two-dimensional topological systems can be characterized by a dynamical topological invariant defined along an appropriately chosen closed contour in…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-08-29 Xingze Qiu , Tian-Shu Deng , Guang-Can Guo , Wei Yi

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

Using tensor network methods, we simulate the real-time evolution of the lattice Thirring model quenched out of equilibrium in both the critical and massive phases and study the appearance of dynamical quantum phase transitions, as…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-06-25 Mari Carmen Bañuls , Krzysztof Cichy , Hao-Ti Hung , Ying-Jer Kao , C. -J. David Lin , Amit Singh

We present a theory for the two kinds of dynamical quantum phase transitions, termed DPT-I and DPT-II, based on a minimal set of symmetry assumptions. In the special case of collective systems with infinite-range interactions, both are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-03-10 Ángel L. Corps , Armando Relaño

Dynamical quantum phase transitions occur in dynamically evolving quantum systems when non-analyticities occur at critical times in the return rate, a dynamical analogue of the free energy. This extension of the concept of phase transitions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-10 T. Masłowski , N. Sedlmayr

The stochastic entropy generated during the evolution of a system interacting with an environment may be separated into three components, but only two of these have a non-negative mean. The third component of entropy production is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-05-30 Ian J. Ford , Richard E. Spinney

Dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs) are characterized by nonanalytic behaviors of physical observables as functions of time. When a system is subject to time-periodic modulations, the nonanalytic signatures of its observables could…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-02 Longwen Zhou , Qianqian Du