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Quantum anomalies arise when symmetries of a classical theory cannot be preserved upon quantization, leading to unconventional topological responses. A prominent example is the parity anomaly of a single two-dimensional Dirac fermion, which…

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Non-Hermitian topological systems have attracted a lot of research activities in recent times, both theoretically and experimentally, due to their unique physical properties and association with open quantum systems. We show that modular…

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Entanglement constitutes one of the key concepts in quantum mechanics and serves as an indispensable tool in the understanding of quantum many-body systems. In this work, we perform extensive numerical investigations of extensive…

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I review some recent results on understanding the physics of metals in an exact non-perturbative way through the powerful field-theoretic concepts of emergent symmetries and 't Hooft anomalies. A 't Hooft anomaly is a discrete topological…

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We introduce a class of intrinsic symmetry-protected topological mixed-state(mSPT) in open quantum systems that feature modulated symmetries, such as dipole and subsystem symmetries. Intriguingly, these mSPT phases cannot be realized as the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-15 Yizhi You , Masaki Oshikawa

The most general and versatile defining feature of quantum chaotic systems is that they possess an energy spectrum with correlations universally described by random matrix theory (RMT). This feature can be exhibited by systems with a well…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2019-01-11 Bruno Bertini , Pavel Kos , Tomaz Prosen

We demonstrate that the long-time dynamics of an observable associated with a single lattice site is sufficient to determine whether a many-body quantum system exhibits level statistics characteristic of random matrix theory, a widely used…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-20 Isaías Vallejo-Fabila , Adway Kumar Das , Sayan Choudhury , Lea F. Santos

The Bott index has become an indispensable tool to probe the topology of quantum matter, particularly in systems lacking translational symmetry. Constructed from a plaquette operator, it retains the phase information while discarding the…

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The quantum spin $1/2$ XXZ chain with anisotropy parameter $\Delta=-1/2$ possesses a dynamic supersymmetry on the lattice. This supersymmetry and a generalisation to higher spin are investigated in the case of open spin chains. A family of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-04-26 Christian Hagendorf , Jean Liénardy

Motzkin spin-chains, which include 'colorless' (integer spin $s=1$) and 'colorful' ($s \geq 2$) variants, are one-dimensional (1D) local integer spin models notable for their lack of a conformal field theory (CFT) description of their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-30 Varun Menon , Andi Gu , Ramis Movassagh

The study of quantum mechanics in non-inertial reference frames, particularly in the context of open systems, introduces several intriguing phenomena and challenges. This paper presents a comprehensive framework for analyzing the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-11 Zi-Fan Zhu , Yu Su , Yao Wang , Rui-Xue Xu , YiJing Yan

Hybrid quantum-classical algorithms are among the most promising systems to implement quantum computing under the Noisy-Intermediate Scale Quantum (NISQ) technology. In this paper, at first, we investigate a quantum dynamics algorithm for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-13 Mahmoud Mahdian , H. Davoodi Yeganeh

We show that certain 't~Hooft anomalies that evade detection on commonly used closed four-dimensional manifolds become visible when a quantum field theory is placed on asymptotically locally Euclidean (ALE) spaces. As a concrete example, we…

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Quantum field theories can exhibit various generalized symmetry structures, among which higher-group symmetries and non-invertible symmetry defects are particularly prominent. In this work, we explore a new general scenario in which these…

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As quantum analogs of the classical Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy, quantum dynamical entropies have emerged as important tools to characterize complex quantum dynamics. In particular, Alicki-Fannes-Lindblad (AFL) entropy, which quantifies the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-22 Eric D. Schultz , Keiichiro Furuya , Laimei Nie

We address quantum characterization of anisotropic spin chains in the presence of antisymmetric exchange, and investigate whether the Hamiltonian parameters of the chain may be estimated with precision approaching the ultimate limit imposed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-18 Simone Cavazzoni , Marco Adani , Paolo Bordone , Matteo G. A. Paris

We compute the bipartite entanglement properties of the spin-half square-lattice Heisenberg model by a variety of numerical techniques that include valence bond quantum Monte Carlo (QMC), stochastic series expansion QMC, high temperature…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-04-16 Ann B. Kallin , Matthew B. Hastings , Roger G. Melko , Rajiv R. P. Singh

Symmetries rigidly delimit the landscape of quantum matter. Recently uncovered spatially modulated symmetries, whose actions vary with position, enable excitations with restricted mobility, while Lieb-Schultz-Mattis (LSM) type anomalies…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-29 Hiromi Ebisu , Bo Han , Weiguang Cao

We provide a detailed comparison between the dynamics of high-temperature spatiotemporal correlation functions in quantum and classical spin models. In the quantum case, our large-scale numerics are based on the concept of quantum…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-12-01 Tjark Heitmann , Jonas Richter , Fengping Jin , Kristel Michielsen , Hans De Raedt , Robin Steinigeweg