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By means of the discrete truncated Wigner approximation we study dynamical phase transitions arising in the steady state of transverse-field Ising models after a quantum quench. Starting from a fully polarized ferromagnetic initial…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-07-15 Reyhaneh Khasseh , Angelo Russomanno , Markus Schmitt , Markus Heyl , Rosario Fazio

Recent advancements in quantum computing technology have enabled the study of fermionic systems at finite temperature via quantum simulations. This presents a novel approach to investigating the chiral phase transition in such systems.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-30 Jia-Qi Gong , Ji-Chong Yang

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

We investigate the nonequilibrium dynamics induced by a finite-time linear quench in the XY chain. Initially, we examine the dynamical quantum phase transition, characterized by the nonanalytic behavior of the Loschmidt amplitude. We find…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-11-19 Kaiyuan Cao , Peiqing Tong

Dynamical quantum phase transitions are closely related to equilibrium quantum phase transitions for ground states. Here, we report an experimental observation of a dynamical quantum phase transition in a spinor condensate with…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-02-20 T. Tian , H. -X. Yang , L. -Y. Qiu , H. -Y. Liang , Y. -B. Yang , Y. Xu , L. -M. Duan

Dynamical quantum phase transitions reveal singularities in quench dynamics, characterized by the emergence of Loschmidt echo zeros at critical times, which usually exist only in the thermodynamic limit but are absent in finite-size quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-07 Zhen-Yu Zheng , Xudong Liu , Siyan Lin , Yu Zhang , Shu Chen

We report dynamical quantum phase transition portrait in the alternating field transverse XY spin chain with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction by investigating singularities in the Loschmidt echo and the corresponding rate function after a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-16 Stav Haldar , Saptarshi Roy , Titas Chanda , Aditi Sen De , Ujjwal Sen

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

By deriving a general framework and analyzing concrete examples, we demonstrate a class of dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs) in one-dimensional two-band systems going through double-quench processes. When this type of DQPT occurs,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-05 Xu-Yang Hou , Qu-Cheng Gao , Hao Guo , Chih-Chun Chien

Dynamical phase transition in quantum many body systems is usually studied by taking it in the ground state and then quenching a parameter to a new value. We investigate here the dynamics when one performs the time evolution of a generic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-04 Sirshendu Bhattacharyya , Subinay Dasgupta

We propose a new computational method of the Loschmidt amplitude in a generic spin system on the basis of the complex semiclassical analysis on the spin-coherent state path integral. We demonstrate how the dynamical transitions emerge in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-06-01 Tomoyuki Obuchi , Sei Suzuki , Kazutaka Takahashi

Dynamical phase transitions extend the notion of criticality to non-stationary settings and are characterized by sudden changes in the macroscopic properties of time-evolving quantum systems. Investigations of dynamical phase transitions…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-11-04 Sebastiano Peotta , Fredrik Brange , Aydin Deger , Teemu Ojanen , Christian Flindt

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

Lattice gauge theories (LGTs) form an intriguing class of theories highly relevant to both high-energy particle physics and low-energy condensed matter physics with the rapid development of engineered quantum devices providing new tools to…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-06-22 Rasmus Berg Jensen , Simon Panyella Pedersen , Nikolaj Thomas Zinner

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

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

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

The physics of quantum states beyond thermodynamic equilibrium represents a fascinating and cutting-edge research. Using numerical state-of-the-art approaches, we observe dynamical quantum phase transitions in the dissipative two-qubit Rabi…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-08 G. Di Bello , A. Ponticelli , F. Pavan , V. Cataudella , G. De Filippis , A. de Candia , C. A. Perroni

We construct a local interacting quantum dimer model on the square lattice, whose zero-temperature phase diagram is characterized by a line of critical points separating two ordered phases of the valence bond crystal type. On one side, the…

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