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We consider the Rabi Hamiltonian which exhibits a quantum phase transition (QPT) despite consisting only of a single-mode cavity field and a two-level atom. We prove QPT by deriving an exact solution in the limit where the atomic transition…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-30 Myung-Joong Hwang , Ricardo Puebla , Martin B. Plenio

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

Dynamical phase transitions can occur in isolated quantum systems that are brought out of equilibrium by sudden parameter changes. We discuss the characterization of such dynamical phase transitions based on the statistics of produced…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-03 Pietro Smacchia , Michael Knap , Eugene Demler , Alessandro Silva

We show that dynamic quantum phase transitions (DQPT) in many situations involve renormalization group (RG) fixed points that are unphysical in the context of thermal phase transitions. In such cases, boundary conditions are shown to become…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-10-22 Amina Khatun , Somendra M. Bhattacharjee

Dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs) are a class of non-equilibrium phase transitions that occur in many-body quantum systems during real-time evolution, rather than through parameter tuning as in conventional phase transitions. This…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-02 Manmeet Kaur , Somendra M. Bhattacharjee

The dynamical quantum phase transition (DQPT) is an important concept in nonequilibrium critical phenomena; however, its relation to the equilibrium quantum phase transition (EQPT) remains obscure. Substantial evidence has suggested that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-15 Yumeng Zeng , Shu Chen

Nonequilibrium dynamics is a paramount scenario for studying quantum systems. The emergence of new features with no equilibrium counterpart, such as dynamical quantum phase transition (DQPT), has attracted wide attention. In this work, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-17 Francisco J. González , Ariel Norambuena , Raúl Coto

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 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

We provide a new perspective on quantum dynamical phase transitions (DPTs) by explaining their origin in terms of caustics that form in the Fock space representation of the many-body state over time, using the fully connected transverse…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-22 Valentin Link , Walter T. Strunz , D. H. J. O'Dell

We introduce the notion of a dynamical topological order parameter (DTOP) that characterises dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs) occurring in the subsequent temporal evolution of "two dimensional" closed quantum systems, following a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-07-19 Utso Bhattacharya , Amit Dutta

When a quantum system is quenched from its ground state, the time evolution can lead to non-analytic behavior in the return rate at critical times $t_c$. Such dynamical phase transitions (DPT's) can occur, in particular, for quenches…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-02-07 N. Sedlmayr , M. Fleischhauer , J. Sirker

We investigate dissipative phase transitions (DPTs) in a parametrically amplified open quantum Rabi model (QRM) with both single- and two-photon decay. In the classical oscillator limit, four composite phases emerge, arising from the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-20 Mingjian Zhu , Han Pu

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

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

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

The quench dynamics of many-body quantum systems may exhibit non-analyticities in the Loschmidt echo, a phenomenon known as dynamical phase transition (DPT). Despite considerable research into the underlying mechanisms behind this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-23 B. O. Goes , G. T. Landi , E. Solano , M. Sanz , L. C. Céleri

Critical points and phase transitions are characterized by diverging susceptibilities, reflecting the tendency of the system toward spontaneous symmetry breaking. Equilibrium statistical mechanics bounds these instabilities to occur at zero…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-03 Orazio Scarlatella , Rosario Fazio , Marco Schiró

Dynamical quantum phase transitions can occur following quenches in quantum systems when the rate function, a dynamical analogue of the free energy, becomes non-analytic at critical times. Here we exhaustively investigate in an exemplary…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-10-20 Hadi Cheraghi , Nicholas Sedlmayr

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