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We investigate the dynamical effects of a magnetic flux quench in the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model in a one-dimensional ring geometry. We show that, even when the system is initially in the half-filled insulating state, the flux quench…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-09-23 Lorenzo Rossi , Fabrizio Dolcini

The equilibration dynamics of a closed quantum system is encoded in the long-time distribution function of generic observables. In this paper we consider the Loschmidt echo generalized to finite temperature, and show that we can obtain an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-08-03 Lorenzo Campos Venuti , N. Tobias Jacobson , Siddhartha Santra , Paolo Zanardi

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

Motivated by the advance of dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs), we analyze the zeros of the complex-time survival (Loschmidt) amplitude in finite quantum systems and develop a general framework for their approximation based on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-11 Jakub Novotný , Jan Střeleček , Pavel Stránský , Pavel Cejnar

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

The Loschmidt amplitude of the purified states of mixed-state density matrices is shown to have zeros when the system undergoes a quasistatic, quench, or Uhlmann process. While the Loschmidt-amplitude zero of a quench process corresponds to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-24 Xu-Yang Hou , Qu-Cheng Gao , Hao Guo , Yan He , Tong Liu , Chih-Chun Chien

Dynamical quantum phase transitions can occur following quenches in quantum systems when the rate function, a dynamical analogue of the free energy, becomes non-analytic at critical times. Here we exhaustively investigate in an exemplary…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-10-20 Hadi Cheraghi , Nicholas Sedlmayr

We analyze the dynamics of a Luttinger model following a quench in the electron-electron interaction strength, where the change in the interaction strength occurs over a finite time scale $\tau$. We study the Loschmidt echo (the overlap…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-27 Rashi Sachdeva , Tanay Nag , Amit Agarwal , Amit Dutta

We study the quench dynamics in a $Z_3$ symmetric chiral clock model (CCM). The results reveal that chiral phases can lead to the emergence of dynamical quantum phase transition (DQPT). By analyzing Lee-Yang-Fisher zeros' distribution in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-15 Ling-Feng Yu , Wei-Lin Li , Xue-Jia Yu , Zhi Li

Energy-storage singularities in quantum batteries are often associated with equilibrium quantum criticality. Here we show that, in quench-driven many-body batteries, such singularities can originate from dynamical criticality in momentum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Zheng Liu , Wen-Hui Nie , Yi-jia Yang , Lin-Cheng Wang , Chang-shui Yu

The dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs) in quantum spin chains with gapless phases after a sudden quench are studied. We mainly consider the general systems with asymmetrical quasiparticle excitation spectra and obtain the general…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-06-02 Kaiyuan Cao , Zhong Ming , Peiqing Tong

The nonanalyticity of the Loschmidt echo at critical times in quantum quenched systems is termed as the dynamical quantum phase transition, extending the notion of quantum criticality to a nonequilibrium scenario. In this paper, we…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-07-30 Niaz Ali Khan , Pei Wang , Munsif Jan , Gao Xianlong

We study the Loschmidt echo F(t) for a class of dynamical systems showing critical chaos. Using a kicked rotor with singular potential as a prototype model, we found that the classical echo shows a gap (initial drop) 1-F_g where F_g scales…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-06-16 Carl T. West , Tomaz Prosen , Tsampikos Kottos

We investigate the nonequilibrium dynamics of the one-dimension Aubry-Andr\'{e}-Harper model with $p$-wave superconductivity by changing the potential strength with slow and sudden quench. Firstly, we study the slow quench dynamics from…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-03-17 Xianqi Tong , Yeming Meng , Xunda Jiang , Chaohong Lee , Gentil Dias de Moraes Neto , Gao Xianlong

We propose gate-parameter Lee-Yang zeros of Loschmidt amplitudes as probes of dynamical phases in finite quantum circuits. We illustrate this approach using a brickwork model, where the time evolution is generated by repeated application of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Chang Liu , Yu Wu , Yunfeng Jiang , Yang Zhang

We analytically and numerically study the Loschmidt echo and the dynamical order parameters in a spin chain with a deconfined phase transition between a dimerized state and a ferromagnetic phase. For quenches from a dimerized state to a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-09-10 Gaoyong Sun , Bo-Bo Wei

By utilizing biorthogonal bases, we develop a comprehensive framework for studying biorthogonal dynamical quantum phase transitions in non-Hermitian systems. With the help of the previously overlooked associated state, we define the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-03 Yecheng Jing , Jian-Jun Dong , Yu-Yu Zhang , Zi-Xiang Hu

We present a prototype of behavior of glassy systems driven by quantum dynamics in a quenching protocol by analyzing the random energy model in a transverse field. We calculate several types of dynamical quantum amplitude and find a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-12-14 Tomoyuki Obuchi , Kazutaka Takahashi

We analyze the dynamics of the return amplitude following a sudden quench in the three-state quantum Potts chain. For quenches crossing the quantum critical point from the paramagnetic to the ferromagnetic phase, the corresponding rate…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-02-27 C. Karrasch , D. Schuricht

We study equilibrium as well as dynamical properties of the finite-size fully connected Ising model with a transverse field at the zero temperature. In relation to the equilibrium, we present approximate ground and first excited states that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-08-06 Arun Sehrawat , Chirag Srivastava , Ujjwal Sen