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We study quenching dynamics of a one-dimensional transverse Ising chain with nearest neighbor antiferromagentic interactions in the presence of a longitudinal field which renders the model non-integrable. The dynamics of the spin chain is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-10-07 Shraddha Sharma , Sei Suzuki , Amit Dutta

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

A phase transition describes the sudden change of state in a physical system, such as the transition between a fluid and a solid. Quantum gases provide the opportunity to establish a direct link between experiment and generic models which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-06-01 Kristian Baumann , Christine Guerlin , Ferdinand Brennecke , Tilman Esslinger

We establish a unified framework for dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs) in non-Hermitian systems that encompasses both biorthogonal and self-norm non-biorthogonal formulations for pure and mixed states under quantum quench…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-27 Yongxu Fu , Gao Xianlong

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

Discrete time crystals are related to non-equilibrium dynamics of periodically driven quantum many-body systems where the discrete time translation symmetry of the Hamiltonian is spontaneously broken into another discrete symmetry.…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-05-31 Arkadiusz Kosior , Krzysztof Sacha

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

We investigate two separate notions of dynamical phase transitions in the two-dimensional nearest-neighbor transverse-field Ising model on a square lattice using matrix product states and a new \textit{hybrid} infinite time-evolving block…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-04-21 Tomohiro Hashizume , Ian P. McCulloch , Jad C. Halimeh

Phase transitions which occur at zero temperature when some non-thermal parameter like pressure, chemical composition or magnetic field is changed are called quantum phase transitions. They are caused by quantum fluctuations which are a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Thomas Vojta

Floquet dynamical quantum phase transitions (FDQPTs) are signified by recurrent nonanalytic behaviors of observables in time. In this work, we introduce a quench-free and generic approach to engineer and control FDQPTs for both pure and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-09-30 J. Naji , R. Jafari , Longwen Zhou , A. Langari

Confinement is an intriguing phenomenon prevalent in condensed matter and high-energy physics. Exploring its effect on the far-from-equilibrium criticality of quantum many-body systems is of great interest both from a fundamental and…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-10-20 Jesse Osborne , Ian P. McCulloch , Jad C. Halimeh

Quantum coherence will undoubtedly play a fundamental role in understanding the dynamics of quantum many-body systems, thereby to reveal its genuine contribution is of great importance. In this paper, we specialize our discussions on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-29 Bao-Ming Xu

We explore the possibility of dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs) occurring during the temporal evolution of a quenched transverse field Ising chain coupled to a particle loss type of bath (local in Jordan-Wigner fermion space)…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-08-13 Souvik Bandyopadhyay , Sudarshana Laha , Utso Bhattacharya , Amit Dutta

The study of dynamical phase transitions has been attracting considerable research efforts in the last decade. One theme of present interest is to search for exotic scenarios beyond the framework of equilibrium phase transitions. Here, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-10-07 Xingze Qiu , Hai Wang , Wei Xia , Xiaopeng Li

We study an integrable spin chain with three spin interactions and the staggered field ($\lambda$) while the latter is quenched either slowly (in a linear fashion in time ($t$) as $t/\tau$ where $t$ goes from a large negative value to a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-06-22 Uma Divakaran , Shraddha Sharma , Amit Dutta

Dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs) are manifested by time-domain nonanalytic behaviors of many-body systems.Introducing a quench is so far understood as a typical scenario to induce DQPTs.In this work, we discover a novel type of…

The nonequilibrium dynamics of two dimensional Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model, in the presence of staggered chemical potential, is investigated using the notion of dynamical quantum phase transition. We contribute to expanding the systematic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-04-27 M. Sadrzadeh , R. Jafari , A. Langari

In closed quantum systems, a dynamical phase transition is identified by nonanalytic behaviors of the return probability as a function of time. In this work, we study the nonunitary dynamics following quenches across exceptional points in a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-08-29 Longwen Zhou , Qing-hai Wang , Hailong Wang , Jiangbin Gong

Thermodynamic conventions suffer from describing dynamical distinctions, especially when the structural and energetic changes induced by localized rare events are insignificant. By using the ensemble theory in the trajectory space, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-03-30 Qi-Jun Ye , Xin-Zheng Li

Dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs), which refer to the criticality in time of a quantum many-body system, have attracted much theoretical and experimental research interest recently. Despite DQPTs are defined and signalled by the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-08-11 Wing Chi Yu , P. D. Sacramento , Yan Chao Li , Hai-Qing Lin