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Dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs) are an exciting paradigm of out-of-equilibrium criticality in many-body systems manifested in nonanalytic behavior in the return rate to the initial state following a sudden quench. While previous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Jesse J. Osborne , Cheuk Yiu Wong , Jad C. Halimeh

We study how time-dependent energy fluctuations impact the dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs) following a noisy ramped quench of the transverse magnetic field in a quantum Ising chain. By numerically solving the stochastic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-01-13 R. Jafari , A. Langari , S. Eggert , Henrik Johannesson

Dynamical phase transition in quantum many body systems is usually studied by taking it in the ground state and then quenching a parameter to a new value. We investigate here the dynamics when one performs the time evolution of a generic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-04 Sirshendu Bhattacharyya , Subinay Dasgupta

We investigate the nonequilibrium dynamics of one-dimension spin models in the presence of a uniform force. The linear potential induces delocalization-localization transition in the free particles model which is known as the Wannier-Stark…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-04-26 Mona Faridfar , Ahmad A. Fouladi , Javad Vahedi

Over the last few years it was pointed out that certain observables of time-evolving quantum systems may have singularities at certain moments in time, mimicking the singularities physical systems have when undergoing phase transitions.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-09-11 V. Gurarie

Fluctuations can drive continuous phase transitions between two distinct ordered phases -- so-called deconfined quantum critical points (DQCPs) -- which lie beyond the Landau-Ginzburg-Wilson paradigm. Despite several theoretical predictions…

We introduce and study dynamical probes of band structure topology in the post-quench time-evolution from mixed initial states of quantum many-body systems. Our construction generalizes the notion of dynamical quantum phase transitions…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-11-29 M. Heyl , J. C. Budich

We investigate the emergence of universal dynamical scaling in quantum critical spin systems adiabatically driven out of equilibrium, with emphasis on quench dynamics which involves non-isolated critical points (i.e., critical regions) and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Shusa Deng , Gerardo Ortiz , Lorenza Viola

Quantum phase transitions take place between distinct phases of matter at zero temperature. Near the transition point, exotic quantum symmetries can emerge that govern the excitation spectrum of the system. A symmetry described by the E8…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-27 R. Coldea , D. A. Tennant , E. M. Wheeler , E. Wawrzynska , D. Prabhakaran , M. Telling , K. Habicht , P. Smeibidl , K. Kiefer

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 theoretically study the dynamics of a transverse-field Ising chain with power-law decaying interactions characterized by an exponent $\alpha$, which can be experimentally realized in ion traps. We focus on two classes of emergent…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-04-04 Bojan Zunkovic , Markus Heyl , Michael Knap , Alessandro Silva

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

We demonstrate the real-time detection of dynamical phase transitions (DPTs) in lattice-confined spinor gases subject to a priori unknown time-variant interactions, via the temporal behaviors of both the system energy and spinor phases…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-04-07 J. O. Austin-Harris , Z. N. Hardesty-Shaw , C. Binegar , P. Sigdel , T. Bilitewski , Y. Liu

We explore the critical properties of the recently discovered finite-time dynamical phase transition in the non-equilibrium relaxation of Ising magnets after a temperature quench. The transition is characterized by a sudden switch in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-03-03 Nalina Vadakkayil , Massimiliano Esposito , Jan Meibohm

Dissipative phase transitions (DPT) are defined by sudden changes in the physical properties of nonequilibrium open quantum systems and they present characteristics that have no analog in closed and thermal systems. Several methods to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-08 Masataka Matsumoto , Zi Cai , Matteo Baggioli

We introduce a phenomenological theory for many-body control of critical phenomena by engineering causally-induced gaps for quantum Hamiltonian systems. The core mechanisms are controlling information flow within and/or between clusters…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-22 Masoud Mohseni , Johan Strumpfer , Marek M. Rams

Quantum phase transitions (QPTs) involve transformations between different states of matter that are driven by quantum fluctuations. These fluctuations play a dominant role in the quantum critical region surrounding the transition point,…

Dynamical phase transition (DPT) characterizes the abrupt change of dynamical properties in nonequilibrium quantum many-body systems. It has been demonstrated that extra quantum fluctuating modes besides the conventional order parameter…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-11 Shuai Yin , Shao-Kai Jian

Dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs) have been established as a rigorous framework for investigating far-from-equilibrium quantum many-body criticality. Although initially thought to be trivially connected to an order parameter…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-07-08 Jesse J. Osborne , Johannes Knaute , Ian P. McCulloch , Jad C. Halimeh

Quantum phase transitions (QPTs) in coherent Ising machines (CIMs) are studied via a spectral mapping between the one-dimensional XY spin model and a network of degenerate optical parametric oscillators (DOPOs). This exact correspondence…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-30 Jing-Yi-Ran Jin , Shuang-Quan Ma , Qing Ai