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We consider the ground-state properties of the s=1/2 Ising chain in a transverse field which varies regularly along the chain having a period of alternation 2. Such a model, similarly to its uniform counterpart, exhibits quantum phase…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Oleg Derzhko , Taras Krokhmalskii

We propose a protocol to tailor dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs) by double-mode squeezing onto the initial state in the XY chain. The effect of squeezing depends critically on the system's symmetry and parameters. When the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Kaiyuan Cao , Haodong Wang , Xiang-Ping Jiang , Shu chen , Jian Wang

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

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

We investigate the nonequilibrium dynamics induced by a finite-time linear quench in the XY chain. Initially, we examine the dynamical quantum phase transition, characterized by the nonanalytic behavior of the Loschmidt amplitude. We find…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-11-19 Kaiyuan Cao , Peiqing Tong

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

This work is concerned with the excited state quantum phase transitions (ESQPTs) defined in Ann.Phys. 323, 1106 (2008). In many-body models that exhibit such transitions, the ground state quantum phase transition (QPT) occurs in parallel…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-01-08 Francisco Pérez-Bernal , Lea F. Santos

We study quantum phase transitions in transverse-field Ising spin chains in which the couplings are random but hyperuniform, in the sense that their large-scale fluctuations are suppressed. We construct a one-parameter family of disorder…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-10-23 Philip J. D. Crowley , C. R. Laumann , Sarang Gopalakrishnan

By constructing an exactly solvable spin model, we investigate the critical behaviors of transverse field Ising chains interpolated with cluster interactions, which exhibit various types of topologically distinct Ising critical points.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-07-12 Xue-Jia Yu , Wei-Lin Li

The dynamical and topological properties of non-Hermitian systems have attracted great attention in recent years. In this work, we establish an intrinsic connection between two classes of intriguing phenomena -- topological phases and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-18 Longwen Zhou , Qianqian Du

Non-equilibrium aspects of the BCS model have fascinated physicists for decades, from the seminal works of Eliashberg to modern realizations in cold atom experiments. The latter scenarios have lead to a great deal of interest in the quench…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-03-12 Colin Rylands , Victor Galitski

Rydberg atom arrays promise high-fidelity quantum simulations of critical phenomena with flexible geometries. Yet experimental realizations inevitably suffer from disorder due to random displacements of atoms, leading to departures from the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-12-02 Xingyu Li , Shuyan Zhou , Xue Chen , Chengshu Li , Hanteng Wang

We study the slow quenching dynamics (characterized by an inverse rate, $\tau^{-1}$) of a one-dimensional transverse Ising chain with nearest neighbor ferromagentic interactions across the quantum critical point (QCP) and analyze the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-06-08 Shraddha Sharma , Uma Divakaran , Anatoli Polkovnikov , Amit Dutta

The quantum ferromagnetic transition at zero temperature in disordered itinerant electron systems is considered. Nonmagnetic quenched disorder leads to diffusive electron dynamics that induces an effective long-range interaction between the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-28 T. R. Kirkpatrick , D. Belitz

We investigate the behavior of quantum coherence of the ground states of 2D Heisenberg XY model and 2D Ising model with transverse field on square lattices, by using the method of Quantum Renormalization Group (QRG). We show that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-02 Narjes Taghadomi , Azam Mani , Ali Bakouei

We investigate quantum phase transitions (QPTs) in spin chain systems characterized by local Hamiltonians with matrix product ground states. We show how to theoretically engineer such QPT points between states with predetermined properties.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Michael M. Wolf , Gerardo Ortiz , Frank Verstraete , J. Ignacio Cirac

Floquet dynamical quantum phase transitions (FDQPTs) are signified by recurrent nonanalytic behaviors of observables in time. In this work, we introduce a quench-free and generic approach to engineer and control FDQPTs for both pure and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-09-30 J. Naji , R. Jafari , Longwen Zhou , A. Langari

We study the mode dynamics of a generic quadratic fermionic Hamiltonian under a sudden quench protocol in momentum space. Modes with zero energy at any given time, $t$, are referred to as dynamical critical modes. Among all zero-energy…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-06 Akash Mitra , Shashi C. L. Srivastava

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

We investigate the robustness of a dynamical phase transition against quantum fluctuations by studying the impact of a ferromagnetic nearest-neighbour spin interaction in one spatial dimension on the non-equilibrium dynamical phase diagram…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-04-09 A. Lerose , J. Marino , B. Zunkovic , A. Gambassi , A. Silva