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We unveil the role of the long time average of Loschmidt echo in the characterization of nonequilibrium quantum phase transitions by studying sudden quench processes across quantum phase transitions in various quantum systems. While the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-08 Bozhen Zhou , Chao Yang , Shu Chen

A critically enhanced decay of the Loschmidt echo is characteristic of sudden quench dynamics near a quantum phase transition. Here, we demonstrate that the decay and revival of the Loschmidt echo follows power-law scaling in the system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-23 Myung-Joong Hwang , Bo-Bo Wei , Susana F. Huelga , Martin B. Plenio

We apply the Yang-Lee theory of phase transitions to an urn model of separation of sand. The effective partition function of this nonequilibrium system can be expressed as a polynomial of the size-dependent effective fugacity $z$. Numerical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Ioana Bena , Francois Coppex , Michel Droz , Adam Lipowski

Dynamical quantum phase transitions are at the forefront of current efforts to understand quantum matter out of equilibrium. Except for a few exactly solvable models, predictions of these critical phenomena typically rely on advanced…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-07-18 Fredrik Brange , Sebastiano Peotta , Christian Flindt , Teemu Ojanen

We consider the zeros of the partition function of the Ising model with ferromagnetic pair interactions and complex external field. Under the assumption that the graph with strictly positive interactions is connected, we vary the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-02-08 Qi Hou , Jianping Jiang , Charles M. Newman

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

We investigate the Ising model in one, two, and three dimensions using a cumulant method that allows us to determine the Lee-Yang zeros from the magnetization fluctuations in small lattices. By doing so with increasing system size, we are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-11-13 Aydin Deger , Fredrik Brange , Christian Flindt

It is shown that dynamical quantum phase transitions observed as singularities in the Loschmidt rate singularities bear close resemblance to standard Rabi oscillations known from dynamics of two-level systems. For some many-body systems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-14 Jakub Zakrzewski

The Loschmidt echo (LE) is a measure of the sensitivity of quantum mechanics to perturbations in the evolution operator. It is defined as the overlap of two wave functions evolved from the same initial state but with slightly different…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Fernando M. Cucchietti

Interacting many-body systems that are driven far away from equilibrium can exhibit phase transitions between dynamically emerging quantum phases, which manifest as singularities in the Loschmidt echo. Whether and under which conditions…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-11-08 Simon A. Weidinger , Markus Heyl , Alessandro Silva , Michael Knap

The scaling behaviour of the edge of the Lee--Yang zeroes in the four dimensional Ising model is analyzed. This model is believed to belong to the same universality class as the $\phi^4_4$ model which plays a central role in relativistic…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2011-07-19 R. Kenna , C. B. Lang

To understand the distribution of the Yang-Lee zeros in quantum integrable field theories we analyse the simplest of these systems given by the two-dimensional Yang-Lee model. The grand-canonical partition function of this quantum field…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-04-12 Giuseppe Mussardo , Riccarda Bonsignori , Andrea Trombettoni

We investigate the location of zeros for the partition function of the anti-ferromagnetic Ising Model, focusing on the zeros lying on the unit circle. We give a precise characterization for the class of rooted Cayley trees, showing that the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-07-01 Ferenc Bencs , Pjotr Buys , Lorenzo Guerini , Han Peters

We investigate a stochastic approach to non-equilibrium quantum spin systems based on recent insights linking quantum and classical dynamics. Exploiting a sequence of exact transformations, quantum expectation values can be recast as…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-01-31 S. De Nicola , B. Doyon , M. J. Bhaseen

Yang and Lee investigated phase transitions in terms of zeros of partition functions, namely, Yang-Lee zeros [Phys. Rev. 87, 404 (1952); Phys. Rev. 87, 410 (1952)]. We show that the essential singularity in the superconducting gap is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-11-30 Hongchao Li , Xie-Hang Yu , Masaya Nakagawa , Masahito Ueda

We investigate the spatial and temporal scales of dynamical quantum phase transitions in the one-dimensional Bose-Hubbard model in the strong interaction limit. Using Jordan-Wigner transformation, we obtain the time-dependent wavefunction…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-12-15 Jia Li , Yajiang Hao

Canonical partition functions and Lee-Yang zeros of QCD at finite density and high temperature are studied. Recent lattice simulations have confirmed that the free energy of QCD is a quartic function of quark chemical potential at…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-05-27 Keitaro Nagata , Kouji Kashiwa , Atsushi Nakamura , Shinsuke M. Nishigaki

We analytically investigated the dynamical quantum phase transitions in the Bose-Hubbard model using the Loschmidt echo as an observable, revealing that after a quench, the global Loschmidt echo exhibits cusp singularities with a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-12-12 Jia Li , Yajiang Hao

Lee-Yang (LY) zeros, points on the complex plane of physical parameters where the partition function goes to zero, have found diverse applications across multiple disciplines like statistical physics, protein folding, percolation, complex…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-06-06 Arijit Chatterjee , T S Mahesh , Mounir Nisse , Yen-Kheng Lim

Considering a non-Hermitian version of $p$-wave Kitaev chain in the presence of additional second nearest neighbour tunneling, we study dynamical quantum phase transition (DQPT) which accounts for the vanishing Loschmidt amplitude. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-08 Debashish Mondal , Tanay Nag