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We introduce a microscopic Hamiltonian model of a two level system with many-body interactions with an environment whose excitation dynamics is fully solved within the Keldysh formalism. If a particle starts in one of the states of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-29 Ernesto P. Danieli , Gonzalo A. Alvarez , Patricia R. Levstein , Horacio M. Pastawski

Dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs) have been studied in the extended XY model under both noiseless and noisy linear driven staggered field cases. In the time-independent staggered field case, the model exhibits a single critical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-29 Saeid Ansari , R. Jafari , Alireza Akbari , Mehdi Abdi

Many-body localization is a unique physical phenomenon driven by interactions and disorder for which a quantum system can evade thermalization. While the existence of a many-body localized phase is now well-established in one-dimensional…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-08-06 Hugo Théveniaut , Zhihao Lan , Gabriel Meyer , Fabien Alet

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

Non-Hermitian quantum system recently have attracted a lots of attentions theoretically and experimentally. However, the results based on the single-particle picture may not apply to understand the property of non-Hermitian many-body…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-23 Wen-Bin He , Jiasen Jin , Fernando Iemini , Hai-Qing Lin

First order quantum phase transition (QPT) between spherical and axially deformed nuclei shows coexisting, but well-separated regions of regular and chaotic dynamics. We employ a Hamiltonian of the Arima-Iachello Interacting Boson Model…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-09-17 Michal Macek , Pavel Cejnar , Pavel Stránský , Jan Dobeš , Amiram Leviatan

We present a comprehensive analysis of the emerging order and chaos and enduring symmetries, accompanying a generic (high-barrier) first-order quantum phase transition (QPT). The interacting boson model Hamiltonian employed, describes a QPT…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-10-01 M. Macek , A. Leviatan

We investigate the critical behavior of momentum-space entanglement entropy at dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs) in translationally invariant two-band insulators and superconductors. By analyzing the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 Kaiyuan Cao , Mingzhi Li , Xiang-Ping Jiang , Shu Chen , Jian Wang

When a quantum system is quenched from its ground state, the time evolution can lead to non-analytic behavior in the return rate at critical times $t_c$. Such dynamical phase transitions (DPT's) can occur, in particular, for quenches…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-02-07 N. Sedlmayr , M. Fleischhauer , J. Sirker

Open quantum systems with nearly degenerate energy levels have been shown to exhibit long-lived metastable states in the approach to equilibrium, even when modelled with certain Lindblad-form quantum master equations. This is a result of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-16 Matthew Gerry , Michael J. Kewming , Dvira Segal

We study the prethermal dynamics of an interacting quantum field theory with a N-component order parameter and $O(N)$ symmetry, suddenly quenched in the vicinity of a dynamical critical point. Depending on the initial conditions, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-04-05 Alessio Chiocchetta , Andrea Gambassi , Sebastian Diehl , Jamir Marino

Floquet dynamical quantum phase transitions (FDQPTs) reveal many nonequilibrium critical phenomena in periodically driven quantum systems, and their underlying mechanisms have attracted deep attention in recent years. In this paper, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-22 Wen-Hui Nie , Mei-Yu Zhang , Lin-Cheng Wang , Chong Li

Dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs) occur at times when a quantum state exhibits a nonanalytic change in its return probability. This can be viewed as the probability of collapsing the evolved state to the initial state by quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-18 Guan-Hua Chen , Guo-Yi Zhu

These Lecture Notes discuss the recent theoretical advances in the understanding of open quantum many-body physics in platforms where both dissipative and coherent processes can be tuned and controlled to a high degree. We start by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-20 Rosario Fazio , Jonathan Keeling , Leonardo Mazza , Marco Schirò

Nonequilibrium dynamics is a paramount scenario for studying quantum systems. The emergence of new features with no equilibrium counterpart, such as dynamical quantum phase transition (DQPT), has attracted wide attention. In this work, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-17 Francisco J. González , Ariel Norambuena , Raúl Coto

A Quantum Phase Transition (QPT) in a simple model that describes the coexistence of atoms and diatomic molecules is studied. The model, that is briefly discussed, presents a second order ground state phase transition in the thermodynamic…

We investigate quantum quenches and the Loschmidt echo in the two dimensional, three band $\alpha-T_3$ model, a close descendant of the dice lattice. By adding a chemical potential to the central site, the integral of the Berry curvature of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-05-27 Balázs Gulácsi , Markus Heyl , Balázs Dóra

The paradigm of second-order phase transitions (PTs) induced by spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) in thermal and quantum systems is a pillar of modern physics that has been fruitfully applied to out-of-equilibrium open quantum systems.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-19 Fabrizio Minganti , Ievgen I. Arkhipov , Adam Miranowicz , Franco Nori

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

The interference between repeated Landau-Zener transitions in a qubit swept through an avoided level crossing results in Stueckelberg oscillations in qubit magnetization. The resulting oscillatory patterns are a hallmark of the coherent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-11-07 M. S. Rudner , A. V. Shytov , L. S. Levitov , D. M. Berns , W. D. Oliver , S. O. Valenzuela , T. P. Orlando
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