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Experimental data on quantum phase transitions in two-dimensional systems (superconductor-insulator, metal-insulator, and transitions under conditions of integer quantum Hall effect) are critically analyzed.

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. L. Shangina , V. T. Dolgopolov

We study ground states and excited states in semiconductor quantum dots containing 1 to 12 electrons. For the first time, it is possible to identify the quantum numbers of the states in the excitation spectra and make a direct comparison to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 L. P. Kouwenhoven , T. H. Oosterkamp , M. W. S. Danoesastro , M. Eto , D. G. Austing , T. Honda , S. Tarucha

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

In the present paper, first the mathematical basic properties of the exceptional points are discussed. Then, their role in the description of real physical quantum systems is considered. Most interesting value is the phase rigidity of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-11-03 Ingrid Rotter

Dynamical phase transitions (DPT) occur after quenching some global parameters in quantum systems and are signalled by the non-analytical time evolution of the dynamical free energy, which is calculated from the Loschmidt overlap between…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-04-23 Szabolcs Vajna , Balázs Dóra

Computing excitation spectra of quantum many-body systems is a promising avenue to demonstrate the practical utility of current noisy quantum devices, especially as we move toward the ``megaquop'' regime. For this task, here we introduce a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 Ji-Yao Chen , Bochen Huang , D. L. Zhou , Norbert Schuch , Chenfeng Cao , Muchun Yang

Resonant transfer of energy between excited states in a system of two semiconductor quantum dots is studied theoretically. The model Hamiltonian has been formulated, which allowed describe the impact on the dynamics of the resonant laser…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-03 P. A. Golovinski

Zero-temperature or quantum phase transitions in itinerant electronic systems both with and without quenched disordered are discussed. Phase transitions considered include, the ferromagnetic transition, the antiferromagnetic transition, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-02-03 T. R. Kirkpatrick , D. Belitz

This contribution reports the study of a set of molecular electronic-structure reorganization representations related to light-induced electronic transitions, modeled in the framework of time-dependent density-functional response theory.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-11-24 Jérémy Morere , Enzo Monino , Thibaud Etienne

We study dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs) in the extended Bose-Hubbard model after a sudden quench of the nearest-neighbor interaction strength. Using the time-dependent density matrix renormalization group, we demonstrate that…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-05-03 Sebastian Stumper , Michael Thoss , Junichi Okamoto

An elementary excitation in an aggregate of coupled particles generates a collective excited state. We show that the dynamics of these excitations can be controlled by applying a transient external potential which modifies the phase of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-06-14 Ping Xiang , Marina Litinskaya , Evgeny A. Shapiro , Roman V. Krems

We report a spectrum of exotic frequency-locked states in a ring of phase oscillators with pure three-body interactions. For identical oscillators, the system hosts a vast multiplicity of stable quantized frequency-locked states without…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-12-23 Jinfeng Liang , Shanshan Zhu , Yang Li , Qionglin Dai , Haihong Li , Junzhong Yang

We investigate the quantum phase transition (QPT) in the XXZ central spin model, which can be described as a spin-1/2 particle coupled to N bath spins. In general, the QPT is supposed to occur only in the thermodynamical limit. In contrast,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-01 Lei Shao , Rui Zhang , Wangjun Lu , Zhucheng Zhang , Xiaoguang Wang

Closed quantum many-body systems out of equilibrium pose several long-standing problems in physics. Recent years have seen a tremendous progress in approaching these questions, not least due to experiments with cold atoms and trapped ions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-02 J. Eisert , M. Friesdorf , C. Gogolin

We review recent advances in understanding the universal scaling properties of non-equilibrium phase transitions in non-ergodic disordered systems. We discuss dynamical critical points (also known as eigenstate phase transitions) between…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-04-28 S. A. Parameswaran , Andrew C. Potter , Romain Vasseur

This Report explores recent advances in our understanding of the physics of open quantum systems (OQSs) which consist of some localized region that is coupled to an external environment. Examples of such systems may be found in numerous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-06 I. Rotter , J. P. Bird

The physics of quantum states beyond thermodynamic equilibrium represents a fascinating and cutting-edge research. Using numerical state-of-the-art approaches, we observe dynamical quantum phase transitions in the dissipative two-qubit Rabi…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-08 G. Di Bello , A. Ponticelli , F. Pavan , V. Cataudella , G. De Filippis , A. de Candia , C. A. Perroni

We study the influence of quantum fluctuations on the phase, density, and pair correlations in a trapped quasicondensate after a quench of the interaction strength. To do so, we derive a description similar to the stochastic…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-07-08 Tomasz Świsłocki , Piotr Deuar

One among the possible realizations of non-Hermitian systems is based on open quantum systems by omitting quantum jumping terms in the master equation. This is a good approximation at short times where the effects of quantum jumps can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-21 Xiangyu Niu , Jianning Li , S. L. Wu , X. X. Yi

We propose a many-body quantum engine powered by the energy difference between the entangled ground state of the interacting system and local separable states. Performing local energy measurements on an interacting many-body system can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-24 Étienne Jussiau , Léa Bresque , Alexia Auffèves , Kater W. Murch , Andrew N. Jordan