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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

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 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

Dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs) are an exciting paradigm of out-of-equilibrium criticality in many-body systems manifested in nonanalytic behavior in the return rate to the initial state following a sudden quench. While previous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Jesse J. Osborne , Cheuk Yiu Wong , Jad C. Halimeh

The nonequilibrium dynamics of two dimensional Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model, in the presence of staggered chemical potential, is investigated using the notion of dynamical quantum phase transition. We contribute to expanding the systematic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-04-27 M. Sadrzadeh , R. Jafari , A. Langari

Considerable theoretical and experimental efforts have been devoted to the quench dynamics, in particular, the dynamical quantum phase transition (DQPT) and the steady-state transition. These developments have motivated us to study the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-03-30 Pei Wang , Gao Xianlong

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 introduce and study dynamical probes of band structure topology in the post-quench time-evolution from mixed initial states of quantum many-body systems. Our construction generalizes the notion of dynamical quantum phase transitions…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-11-29 M. Heyl , J. C. Budich

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

By deriving a general framework and analyzing concrete examples, we demonstrate a class of dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs) in one-dimensional two-band systems going through double-quench processes. When this type of DQPT occurs,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-05 Xu-Yang Hou , Qu-Cheng Gao , Hao Guo , Chih-Chun Chien

Dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs) feature singular temporal behavior in transient quantum states during nonequilibrium real-time evolution. In this work we show that DQPTs in random Ising chains exhibit critical behavior with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-10-04 Daniele Trapin , Jad C. Halimeh , Markus Heyl

Dynamical quantum phase transitions are at the forefront of current efforts to understand quantum matter out of equilibrium. Except for a few exactly solvable models, predictions of these critical phenomena typically rely on advanced…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-07-18 Fredrik Brange , Sebastiano Peotta , Christian Flindt , Teemu Ojanen

In recent years, various notions of dynamical phase transitions have emerged to describe far-from-equilibrium criticality. A unifying framework connecting these different concepts is still missing, and would provide significant progress…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-04-04 Ángel L. Corps , Armando Relaño , Jad C. Halimeh

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

We study an integrable spin chain with three spin interactions and the staggered field ($\lambda$) while the latter is quenched either slowly (in a linear fashion in time ($t$) as $t/\tau$ where $t$ goes from a large negative value to a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-06-22 Uma Divakaran , Shraddha Sharma , Amit Dutta

Dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs), which serve as a theoretical framework for understanding far-from-equilibrium physics in quantum many-body systems, have recently been observed experimentally. Their topological properties are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-07 Bao-Ming Xu

Phase transitions in nonequilibrium dynamics of many body quantum systems,the so-called dynamical phases transition (DPTs), play an important role for understanding various dynamical phenomena observed in different branches of physics.In…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-03-04 Zhen-Xia Niu , Qian Wang

We study quenching dynamics of a one-dimensional transverse Ising chain with nearest neighbor antiferromagentic interactions in the presence of a longitudinal field which renders the model non-integrable. The dynamics of the spin chain is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-10-07 Shraddha Sharma , Sei Suzuki , Amit Dutta

Global quenches of quantum many-body models can give rise to periodic dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs) directly connected to the zeros of a Landau order parameter (OP). The associated dynamics has been argued to bear close…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-15 Maarten Van Damme , Jean-Yves Desaules , Zlatko Papić , Jad C. Halimeh

We demonstrate the existence of a dynamical quantum phase transition (DQPT) in a dissipative collective-spin model that exhibits the boundary time crystal (BTC) phase. We initialize the system in the ground state of the Hamiltonian in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-05 Sukrut Mondkar , Priya Ghosh , Ujjwal Sen