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In Ref. Ansari et al., dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs) -- non-analyticities in the Loschmidt return rate at critical times -- are investigated in the presence of noise for a two-band model. The authors report that DQPTs persist…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-21 J. Sirker

Dynamical quantum phase transitions are non-analyticities in a dynamical free energy (or return rate) which occur at critical times. Although extensively studied in one dimension, the exact nature of the non-analyticity in two and three…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-19 Tomasz Masłowski , Hadi Cheraghi , Jesko Sirker , Nicholas Sedlmayr

We explore the critical properties of the recently discovered finite-time dynamical phase transition in the non-equilibrium relaxation of Ising magnets after a temperature quench. The transition is characterized by a sudden switch in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-03-03 Nalina Vadakkayil , Massimiliano Esposito , Jan Meibohm

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…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-03 Pietro Smacchia , Michael Knap , Eugene Demler , Alessandro Silva

We investigate the Loschmidt amplitude and dynamical quantum phase transitions in multiband one dimensional topological insulators. For this purpose we introduce a new solvable multiband model based on the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-09 Tomasz Masłowski , Nicholas Sedlmayr

We uncover a novel dynamical quantum phase transition, using random matrix theory and its associated notion of planar limit. We study it for the isotropic XY Heisenberg spin chain. For this, we probe its real-time dynamics through the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-04 David Pérez-García , Leonardo Santilli , Miguel Tierz

We study the mode dynamics of a generic quadratic fermionic Hamiltonian under a sudden quench protocol in momentum space. Modes with zero energy at any given time, $t$, are referred to as dynamical critical modes. Among all zero-energy…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-06 Akash Mitra , Shashi C. L. Srivastava

In this work we investigate the equilibration dynamics after a sudden Hamiltonian quench of a quantum spin system initially prepared in a thermal state. To characterize the equilibration we evaluate the Loschmidt echo, a global measure for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-09-13 N. Tobias Jacobson , Lorenzo Campos Venuti , Paolo Zanardi

In this paper, we systematically study the work statistics for quantum phase transition. For a quantum system approached by an anisotropic conformal field theory near the critical point, the driving protocols is divided into three different…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-05-05 Zhaoyu Fei , C. P. Sun

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

A dynamical quantum phase transition can occur during time evolution of sudden quenched quantum systems across a phase transition. It corresponds to the nonanalytic behavior at a critical time of the rate function of the quantum state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-14 Xue-Yi Guo , Chao Yang , Yu Zeng , Yi Peng , He-Kang Li , Hui Deng , Yi-Rong Jin , Shu Chen , Dongning Zheng , Heng Fan

We show that non-Hermitian biorthogonal many-body phase transitions can be characterized by the enhanced decay of Loschmidt echo. The quantum criticality is numerically investigated in a non-Hermitian transverse field Ising model by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-01-13 Jia-Chen Tang , Su-Peng Kou , Gaoyong Sun

A quantum critical system described at low energy by a conformal field theory (CFT) and subjected to a time-periodic boundary drive displays multiple dynamical regimes depending on the drive frequency. We compute the behavior of quantities…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-07-03 William Berdanier , Michael Kolodrubetz , Romain Vasseur , Joel E. Moore

We investigate two types of dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs) in the transverse field Ising model on ensembles of Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi networks of size $N$. These networks consist of vertices connected randomly with probability $p$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-24 Tomohiro Hashizume , Felix Herbort , Joseph Tindall , Dieter Jaksch

We consider sudden quenches across quantum phase transitions in the $S=1$ XXZ model starting from the Haldane phase. We demonstrate that dynamical phase transitions may occur during these quenches that are identified by nonanalyticities in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-07-02 I. Hagymási , C. Hubig , Ö. Legeza , U. Schollwöck

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

Quantum dynamics of magnetic order in a chiral multiferroic chain is studied. We consider two different scenarios: Ultrashort terahertz (THz) excitations or a sudden electric field quench. Performing analytical and numerical exact…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-09-07 M. Azimi , M. Sekania , S. K. Mishra , L. Chotorlishvili , Z. Toklikishvili , J. Berakdar

In quantum dynamics, the Loschmidt amplitude is analogous to the partition function in the canonical ensemble. Zeros in the partition function indicate a phase transition, while the presence of zeros in the Loschmidt amplitude indicates a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-10 Mingtao Xu , Wei Yi , De-Huan Cai

Extending notions of phase transitions to nonequilibrium realm is a fundamental problem for statistical mechanics. While it was discovered that critical transitions occur even for transient states before relaxation as the singularity of a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-09-02 Ryusuke Hamazaki

Dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs) are temporal singularities marked by zeros of the Loschmidt echo, yet their underlying quantum-information structure remains elusive. Here, we introduce a momentum-resolved entanglement entropy as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Kaiyuan Cao , Mingzhi Li , Xiang-Ping Jiang , Shu Chen , Jian Wang
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