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This work investigates dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs) in a one-dimensional Ising model subjected to a periodically modulated transverse field. In contrast to sudden quenches, we demonstrate that a DQPT can be induced in two…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-25 Yuanyuan Cheng , Yuxia Zhang , Tianhui Qiu , Peipei Xin , Bao-Ming Xu

Coupling a quantum many-body system to a cavity can create bifurcation points in its phase diagram, where the ground state makes sudden switchings between different phases. Here we study the dynamical quantum phase transition of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-10 Lin Tian

Dynamical phase transitions (DPTs) characterize critical changes in system behavior occurring at finite times, providing a lens to study nonequilibrium phenomena beyond conventional equilibrium physics. While extensively studied in quantum…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-12-10 Jiazhen Liu , Nathaniel M. Aden , Debasish Sarker , Chaoming Song

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

Interacting many-body systems that are driven far away from equilibrium can exhibit phase transitions between dynamically emerging quantum phases, which manifest as singularities in the Loschmidt echo. Whether and under which conditions…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-11-08 Simon A. Weidinger , Markus Heyl , Alessandro Silva , Michael Knap

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

We report a kind of quantum phase transition which takes place in isolated quantum systems with non-thermal equilibrium states and an extra symmetry that commutes with the Hamiltonian for any values of the system parameters. A critical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-08 Ricardo Puebla , Armando Relaño

Spontaneous symmetry breaking occurs in various equilibrium and nonequilibrium systems, where phase transitions are typically marked by a single critical point that separates ordered and disordered regimes. We reveal a novel phenomenon in…

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

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

A dynamical quantum phase transition can occur during time evolution of sudden quenched quantum systems across a phase transition. It corresponds to the nonanalytic behavior at a critical time of the rate function of the quantum state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-14 Xue-Yi Guo , Chao Yang , Yu Zeng , Yi Peng , He-Kang Li , Hui Deng , Yi-Rong Jin , Shu Chen , Dongning Zheng , Heng Fan

The dynamics of a quantum phase transition is inextricably woven with the formation of excitations, as a result of the critical slowing down in the neighborhood of the critical point. We design a transitionless quantum driving through a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-09-17 Adolfo del Campo , Marek M. Rams , Wojciech H. Zurek

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

Phase transitions which occur at zero temperature when some non-thermal parameter like pressure, chemical composition or magnetic field is changed are called quantum phase transitions. They are caused by quantum fluctuations which are a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Thomas Vojta

Spontaneous symmetry breaking is a hallmark of equilibrium systems, typically characterized by a single critical point separating ordered and disordered phases. Recently, a novel class of non-equilibrium phase transitions was uncovered…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-16 Gustavo A. L. Forão , Jonas Berx , Tan Van Vu , Carlos E. Fiore

We study the dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs) manifested in the subsequent unitary dynamics of an extended Ising model with additional three spin interactions following a sudden quench. Revisiting the equilibrium phase diagram of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-04-24 Sourav Bhattacharjee , Amit Dutta

Quantum phase transitions are sudden changes in the ground-state wavefunction of a many-body system that can occur as a control parameter such as a concentration or a field strength is varied. They are driven purely by the competition…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-09-21 Jun Jing , Mike Guidry , Lian-Ao Wu

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

Many body models undergoing a quantum phase transition to a broken-symmetry phase that survives up to a critical temperature must possess, in the ordered phase, symmetric as well as non-symmetric eigenstates. We predict, and explicitly show…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-11 Giacomo Mazza , Michele Fabrizio

Equilibrium phase transitions usually emerge from the microscopic behavior of many-body systems and are associated to interesting phenomena such as the generation of long-range order and spontaneous symmetry breaking. They can be defined…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-24 Emmanouil Grigoriou , Carlos Navarrete-Benlloch