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We consider estimating the magnitude of a monochromatic AC signal that couples to a two-level sensor. For any detection protocol, the precision achieved depends on the signal's frequency and can be quantified by the quantum Fisher…

Multipartite entanglement is a crucial resource for advancing quantum technologies, with considerable research efforts directed toward achieving its rapid and scalable generation. In this work, we derive an analytical expression for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Hai-Long Shi , Augusto Smerzi , Luca Pezzè

The notion of a dynamical quantum phase transition (DQPT) was recently introduced in [Heyl et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 135704 (2013)] as the non-analytic behavior of the Loschmidt echo at critical times in the thermodynamic limit. In this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-09-04 Markus Schmitt , Stefan Kehrein

Nonequilibrium states of closed quantum many-body systems defy a thermodynamic description. As a consequence, constraints such as the principle of equal a priori probabilities in the microcanonical ensemble can be relaxed, which can lead to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-03-27 Markus Heyl

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

The dynamics of quantum Fisher information (QFI) of the phase parameter in a driven two-state system is studied within the framework of non-Markovian dissipative process. The influences of memory effects, classical driving and detunings on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Yan-Ling Li , Xing Xiao , Yao Yao

Excited state quantum phase transitions (ESQPTs) are generalizations of quantum phase transitions (QPTs) to excited levels. They are associated with local divergences in the density of states. Here, we investigate how the presence of an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-07-27 Lea F. Santos , Marco Távora , Francisco Pérez-Bernal

The quantum Fisher information, the quantum analogue of the classical Fisher information, is a central quantity in quantum metrology and quantum sensing due to its connection to parameter estimation and fidelity susceptibility. Using…

Topological characteristics of quantum systems are typically determined by the closing of a gap, while the dynamical quantum phase transition (DQPT) during quantum real-time evolution has emerged as a nonequilibrium analog to the quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-11-26 Y. B. Shi , X. Z. Zhang , Z. Song

Phase transitions in dissipative quantum systems have been investigated using various analytical approaches, particularly in the mean-field (MF) limit. However, analytical results often depend on specific methodologies. For instance,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-08-09 Minjae Jo , Bukyoung Jhun , B. Kahng

The localization transition can be exploited as a resource for achieving quantum-enhanced sensitivity in parameter estimation. We demonstrate that by employing different classes of localization inducing potentials, one can significantly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 Ayan Sahoo , Debraj Rakshit

We consider the problem of determining the spatial phase profile of a single-mode electromagnetic field. Our attention is on input states that are a statistical mixture of displaced and squeezed number states, a superset of Gaussian states.…

Optics · Physics 2024-07-09 Jacob Trzaska , Amit Ashok

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

We demonstrate that dynamical probes provide direct means of detecting the topological phase transition (TPT) between conventional and topological phases, which would otherwise be difficult to access because of loss or heating processes. We…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-11-06 F. Setiawan , K. Sengupta , I. B. Spielman , Jay D. Sau

Established methods for characterizing quantum information processes do not capture non-Markovian (history-dependent) behaviors that occur in real systems. These methods model a quantum process as a fixed map on the state space of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Ryan S. Bennink , Pavel Lougovski

Critical metrology relies on the precise preparation of a system in its ground state near a quantum phase transition point where quantum correlations get very strong. Typically this increases the quantum Fisher information with respect to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-12 Christoph Hotter , Helmut Ritsch , Karol Gietka

We study the nonequilibrium dynamics of the extended toric code model (both ordered and disordered) to probe the existence of the dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs). We show that in the case of the ordered toric code model, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-10-30 Vatshal Srivastav , Utso Bhattacharya , Amit Dutta

We study the quantum Fisher information (QFI) of W states analytically with respect to SU(2) rotations in the basic decoherence channels i.e. depolarizing (DPC), amplitude damping (ADC) and phase damping (PDC), and present the interesting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-16 Fatih Ozaydin

Discrete time crystals are non-equilibrium phases of matter in periodically driven systems, characterized by robust subharmonic oscillations and broken discrete time-translation symmetry. Their long-lived coherent dynamics and resilience to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-29 Rozhin Yousefjani , Shaikha Al-Naimi , Saif Al-Kuwari , Abolfazl Bayat

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