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The fuzzy sphere method has enjoyed great success in the study of (2+1)-dimensional unitary conformal field theories (CFTs) by regularizing them as quantum Hall transitions on the sphere. Here, we extend this approach to the Yang-Lee…

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Quantum phase transitions are a fascinating area of condensed matter physics. The extension through complexification not only broadens the scope of this field but also offers a new framework for understanding criticality and its statistical…

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We investigate the phase transitions from chaotic to nonchaotic dynamics in a quantum spin chain with a local non-Hermitian disorder, which can be realized with a Rydberg atom array setting. As the disorder strength increases, the emergence…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-03 Yijia Zhou , Wei Xia , Lin Li , Weibin Li

We present a new method for calculating the Yang-Lee partition function zeros of a translationally invariant model of lattice fermions, exemplified by the Hubbard model. The method rests on a theorem involving the single electron…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-14 B Sriram Shastry

The linear cross-entropy (LXE) has been recently proposed as a scalable probe of the measurement-driven phase transition between volume- and area-law-entangled phases of pure-state trajectories in certain monitored quantum circuits. Here,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-15 Maria Tikhanovskaya , Ali Lavasani , Matthew P. A. Fisher , Sagar Vijay

Weak measurements have been predicted to dramatically alter universal properties of quantum critical wavefunctions, though experimental validation remains an open problem. Here we devise a practical scheme for realizing measurement-altered…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-30 Stephen Naus , Yue Liu , Sara Murciano , Pablo Sala , Manuel Endres , Jason Alicea

We show that by examining the global geometric entanglement it is possible to identify "elusive" or hard to detect quantum phase transitions. We analyze several one-dimensional quantum spin chains and demonstrate the existence of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-29 Roman Orus , Tzu-Chieh Wei

Edge burst is a phenomenon in non-Hermitian quantum dynamics discovered by a recent numerical study [W.-T. Xue, et al, Phys. Rev. Lett 2, 128.120401(2022)]. It finds that a large proportion of particle loss occurs at the system boundary in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-27 Pengyu Wen , Jinghui Pi , Guilu Long

Inspired by current research on measurement-induced quantum phase transitions, we analyze the nonunitary Floquet transverse-field Ising model with complex nearest-neighbor couplings and complex transverse fields. Unlike its unitary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-02 Lei Su , Aashish Clerk , Ivar Martin

In the present paper we introduce a way of identifying quantum phase transitions of many-body systems by means of local time correlations and Leggett-Garg inequalities. This procedure allows to experimentally determine the quantum critical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-25 F. J. Gómez-Ruiz , J. J. Mendoza-Arenas , F. J. Rodríguez , C. Tejedor , L. Quiroga

At continuous phase transitions, quantum many-body systems exhibit scale-invariance and complex, emergent universal behavior. Most strikingly, at a quantum critical point, correlations decay as a power law, with exponents determined by a…

We show that analytic continuation of the number of colors, Nc, naturally endows Yang-Mills theory with a non-Hermitian structure. By examining the spectrum of the dilatation operator as a function of complex Nc, we identify a network of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-20 Qingjun Jin , Ke Ren , Gang Yang , Rui Yu

We use high-order cumulants to investigate the Lee-Yang zeros of generating functions of dynamical observables in open quantum systems. At long times the generating functions take on a large deviation form with singularities of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-08 James M. Hickey , Christian Flindt , Juan P. Garrahan

The critical properties of an infinitely long Ising strip with finite width L joined periodically or antiperiodically are investigated by analyzing the distribution of partition function zeros. For periodic boundary condition, the the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ming-Chang Huang , Tsong-Ming Liaw , Yu-Pin Luo , Simon C. Lin

We investigate the quantum-critical behavior between the rung-singlet phase with hidden string order and the N\'eel phase with broken $SU(2)$-symmetry on quantum spin ladders with algebraically decaying unfrustrated long-range Heisenberg…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-09-05 P. Adelhardt , K. P. Schmidt

Symmetry-breaking quantum phase transitions play a key role in several condensed matter, cosmology and nuclear physics theoretical models. Its observation in real systems is often hampered by finite temperatures and limited control of the…

Quantum phase transitions take place between distinct phases of matter at zero temperature. Near the transition point, exotic quantum symmetries can emerge that govern the excitation spectrum of the system. A symmetry described by the E8…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-27 R. Coldea , D. A. Tennant , E. M. Wheeler , E. Wawrzynska , D. Prabhakaran , M. Telling , K. Habicht , P. Smeibidl , K. Kiefer

The interplay between the non-Hermitian skin effect and the imaginary gap of lossy lattices results in the edge burst, a boundary-induced dynamical phenomenon in which an exceptionally large portion of particle loss occurs at the edge.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-19 Yu-Min Hu , Wen-Tan Xue , Fei Song , Zhong Wang

Understanding emergent phenomena in out-of-equilibrium interacting many-body systems is an exciting frontier in physical science. While quantum simulators represent a promising approach to this long-standing problem, in practice it can be…

We study some properties of the Ising model in the plane of the complex (energy/temperature)-dependent variable $u=e^{-4K}$, where $K=J/(k_BT)$, for nonzero external magnetic field, $H$. Exact results are given for the phase diagram in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Victor Matveev , Robert Shrock