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The Yang-Lee edge singularity is an intriguing critical phenomenon characterized by nonunitary field theory. However, its experimental realization for interacting many-body systems remains elusive. We show that Yang-Lee edge singularities,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-02-25 Ming-Chu Lu , Shun-Hui Shi , Gaoyong Sun

Lee-Yang theory offers a unifying framework for understanding classical phase transitions and dynamical quantum phase transitions through the analysis of partition functions and Loschmidt echoes. Recently, this framework is extended to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-16 Tian-Yi Gu , Gaoyong Sun

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

This work presents a unified perspective on thermal equilibrium and quantum dynamics by examining the simplest quantum system, a qubit, as a minimal model. We show that both the thermal partition function and the Loschmidt amplitude can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-02 Manmeet Kaur , Somendra M. Bhattacharjee

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

Yang-Lee edge singularities (YLES) are the edges of the partition function zeros of an interacting spin model in the space of complex control parameters. They play an important role in understanding non-Hermitian phase transitions in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-29 Ruizhe Shen , Tianqi Chen , Mohammad Mujahid Aliyu , Fang Qin , Yin Zhong , Huanqian Loh , Ching Hua Lee

We study a phase transition in a non-equilibrium model first introduced in [5], using the Yang-Lee description of equilibrium phase transitions in terms of both canonical and grand canonical partition function zeros. The model consists of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Farhad H Jafarpour

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 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

Determining the phase diagram of interacting quantum many-body systems is an important task for a wide range of problems such as the understanding and design of quantum materials. For classical equilibrium systems, the Lee-Yang formalism…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-08-03 Pascal M. Vecsei , Jose L. Lado , Christian Flindt

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

The densities of Yang-Lee zeros for the Ising ferromagnet on the $L\times L$ square lattice are evaluated from the exact grand partition functions ($L=3\sim16$). The properties of the density of Yang-Lee zeros are discussed as a function of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Seung-Yeon Kim

We present a comprehensive theoretical framework for quantum criticality in the non-Hermitian detuned PXP model, and establish the complete phase diagram, which had remained elusive in previous studies. Starting from a numerically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-16 Wen-Yi Zhang , Meng-Yun Mao , Qing-Min Hu , Xinzhi Zhao , Gaoyong Sun , Wen-Long You

Qualitative and quantitative information about critical phenomena is provided by the distribution of zeros of the partition function in the complex plane. We apply this idea to Ising models on non-periodic systems based on substitution. In…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Harald Simon , Michael Baake , Uwe Grimm

We propose gate-parameter Lee-Yang zeros of Loschmidt amplitudes as probes of dynamical phases in finite quantum circuits. We illustrate this approach using a brickwork model, where the time evolution is generated by repeated application of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Chang Liu , Yu Wu , Yunfeng Jiang , Yang Zhang

The Yang-Lee edge singularity was originally studied from the standpoint of mathematical foundations of phase transitions, and its physical demonstration has been of active interest both theoretically and experimentally. However, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-08-20 Huixia Gao , Kunkun Wang , Lei Xiao , Masaya Nakagawa , Norifumi Matsumoto , Dengke Qu , Haiqing Lin , Masahito Ueda , Peng Xue

The recently discovered dynamical phase transition denotes non-analytic behavior in the real time evolution of quantum systems in the thermodynamic limit and has been shown to occur in different systems at zero temperature [Heyl et al.,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-03-23 Nils O. Abeling , Stefan Kehrein

Lee-Yang zeros are points in the complex plane of an external control parameter at which the partition function vanishes for a many-body system of finite size. In the thermodynamic limit, the Lee-Yang zeros approach the critical value on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-06 Aydin Deger , Christian Flindt

Zeros of partition functions, in particular Lee-Yang zeros, in a complex plane provide important information for understanding phase transitions. A recent discovery on the equivalence between the coherence of a central quantum system and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-28 Wenjie Shao , Yulian Chen , Ren-bao Liu , Yiheng Lin

We obtain in a closed form the 1/N^2 contribution to the free energy of the two Hermitian N\times N random matrix model with non symmetric quartic potential. From this result, we calculate numerically the Yang-Lee zeros of the 2D Ising…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Luiz C. de Albuquerque , Nelson A. Alves , D. Dalmazi
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