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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…

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The low-temperature properties and crossover phenomena of $d$-dimensional transverse Ising-like systems within the influence domain of the quantum critical point are investigated solving the appropriate one-loop renormalization group…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Caramico D'Auria , L. De Cesare , I. Rabuffo

Quantum matter hosts a large variety of phases, some coexisting, some competing; when two or more orders occur together, they are often entangled and cannot be separated. Dynamical multiferroicity, where fluctuations of electric dipoles…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-02-20 K. Dunnett , J. -X. Zhu , N. A. Spaldin , V. Juricic , A. V. Balatsky

The thermodynamics of quantum phase transitions has long been a rich area of research, providing numerous insights and enhancing our understanding of this important phenomenon. This theoretical framework has been well-developed specially…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-05 Andesson B. Nascimento , Lucas C. Céleri

The influence of the pore network geometry and interparticle long-distance electric coupling on the ferroelectric phase transition in small particles embedded into mesoporous matrices is considered. It was shown that the temperature of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. V. Charnaya , A. L. Pirozerski , Cheng Tien , M. K. Lee

We consider the problem of quantum and classical phase transitions in double-layer quantum Hall systems at $\nu=1/m$ (m odd integers) from a long-wavelength statistical mechanics viewpoint. We derive an explicit mapping of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Lian Zheng

The thermodynamical properties of a generalized Dicke model are calculated and related with the critical properties of its energy spectrum, namely the quantum phase transitions (QPT) and excited state quantum phase transitions (ESQPT). The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-12 Miguel A. Bastarrachea-Magnani , Sergio Lerma-Hernández , Jorge G. Hirsch

Quantum critical behaviors induced by a putative quantum phase transition are vigilantly investigated, which separates a $d$-wave superconducting state and $d$-wave superconducting+$X$ state below the superconducting dome of the $d-$wave…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-05-03 Xiao-Yue Ren , Ya-Hui Zhai , Jing Wang

We consider a $\phi^4$-theory with a position-dependent distance from the critical point. One realization of this model is a classical ferromagnet subject to non-uniform mechanical stress. We find a sharp phase transition where the envelope…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. Belitz , T. R. Kirkpatrick , Ronojoy Saha

Magnetic fluctuations and electrons couple in intriguing ways in the vicinity of zero temperature phase transitions - quantum critical points - in conducting materials. Quantum criticality is implicated in non-Fermi liquid behavior of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-12-05 Lucile Savary , Eun-Gook Moon , Leon Balents

Quantum critical states exhibit strong quantum fluctuations and are therefore highly susceptible to perturbations. In this work we study the dynamical stability against a sudden coupling to these strong fluctuations by quenching the order…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-02-21 Markus Heyl

When a quantum many-particle system exists on a randomly diluted lattice, its intrinsic thermal and quantum fluctuations coexist with geometric fluctuations due to percolation. In this paper, we explore how the interplay of these…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-08-23 Thomas Vojta , J. A. Hoyos

Critical phenomena at finite temperature underpin a broad range of physical systems, yet their study remains challenging due to computational bottlenecks near phase transitions. Quantum annealers have attracted significant interest as a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-11 Gianluca Teza , Francesco Campaioli , Marco Avesani , Oren Raz

We consider superconductivity in the light of the quantum gravity theoretical framework introduced in [1]. In this framework, the degree of quantum delocalization depends on the geometry of the energy distribution along space. This results…

General Physics · Physics 2010-07-22 Andrea Gregori

A quantum phase transition may occur in a system at zero temperature when a controlling parameter is tuned towards a critical point. An important question is whether such a critical point exists in a particular system and how stable it is.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-04-28 Gang Chen , Yunxuan Li , Zheyong Fan , Huabi Zeng

A strong influence of illumination and electric bias on the Curie temperature and saturation value of the magnetization is demonstrated for semiconductor structures containing a modulation-doped p-type Cd0.96Mn0.04Te quantum well placed in…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 H. Boukari , P. Kossacki , M. Bertolini , D. Ferrand , J. Cibert , S. Tatarenko , A. Wasiela , J. A. Gaj , T. Dietl

We show that a quantum phase transition can occur in a phonon system in the presence of dislocations. Due to the competing nature between the topological protection of the dislocation and anharmonicity, phonons can reach a quantum critical…

With the development of electronic structure theory, a new class of materials - quantum ones has been recognized by the community. Traditionally, it has been believed that the properties of such compounds cannot be described within the…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-11-10 Himanshu Joshi , Mateusz Wlazło , Harshan Reddy Gopidi , Oleksandr I. Malyi

In a local Fermi liquid (LFL), we show that there is a line of weak first order phase transitions between the ferromagnetic and paramagnetic phases due to purely quantum fluctuations. We predict that an instability towards superconductivity…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 Jason Jackiewicz , Kevin S. Bedell

For a system near a quantum critical point (QCP), above its lower critical dimension $d_L$, there is in general a critical line of second order phase transitions that separates the broken symmetry phase at finite temperatures from the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-08-09 Mucio A. Continentino