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In quantum many-body systems with kinetically constrained dynamics, the Hilbert space can split into exponentially many disconnected subsectors, a phenomenon known as Hilbert-space fragmentation. We study the interplay of such fragmentation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-09 Thomas Iadecola

Entanglement asymmetry is an observable in quantum systems, constructed using quantum-information methods, suited to detecting symmetry breaking in states -- possibly out of equilibrium -- relative to a subsystem. In this paper we define…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-27 Francesco Benini , Pasquale Calabrese , Michele Fossati , Amartya Harsh Singh , Marco Venuti

The interplay between symmetries and entanglement in out-of-equilibrium quantum systems is currently at the centre of an intense multidisciplinary research effort. Here we introduce a setting where these questions can be characterised…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-02-07 Alessandro Foligno , Pasquale Calabrese , Bruno Bertini

Spontaneous symmetry breaking has revolutionized the understanding in numerous fields of modern physics. Here, we theoretically demonstrate the spontaneous time-reversal symmetry breaking in a cavity quantum electrodynamics system in which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Yu-Kun Lu , Pai Peng , Qi-Tao Cao , Da Xu , Jan Wiersig , Qihuang Gong , Yun-Feng Xiao

Entanglement asymmetry is a measure of symmetry breaking in quantum subsystems, inspired by quantum information theory, particularly suited to study out-of-equilibrium states. We study the entanglement asymmetry of a class of excited…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-23 Francesco Benini , Victor Godet , Amartya Harsh Singh

In this article we study the quench dynamics of Galilean and scale invariant many-body systems which can be prepared using interacting atomic gases. The far-away from equilibrium dynamics are investigated by employing $m$-body density…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-08-07 Jeff Maki , Fei Zhou

The review considers the peculiarities of symmetry breaking and symmetry transformations and the related physical effects in finite quantum systems. Some types of symmetry in finite systems can be broken only asymptotically. However, with a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 J. L. Birman , R. G. Nazmitdinov , V. I. Yukalov

Symmetry is an important property of quantum mechanical systems which may dramatically influence their behavior in and out of equilibrium. In this paper, we study the effect of symmetry on tripartite entanglement properties of typical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-07 Kasra Hejazi , Hassan Shapourian

Spontaneous breaking of continuous time translation symmetry into a discrete one is related to time crystal formation. While the phenomenon is not possible in the ground state of a time-independent many-body system, it can occur in an…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-08-21 Arkadiusz Kosior , Andrzej Syrwid , Krzysztof Sacha

Conservation laws in a quantum many-body system play a direct role in its dynamic behavior. Understanding the effect of weakly breaking a conservation law due to coherent and incoherent errors is thus crucial, e.g., in the realization of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-10-02 Jad C. Halimeh , Philipp Hauke

A powerful perspective in understanding non-equilibrium quantum dynamics is through the time evolution of its entanglement content. Yet apart from a few guiding principles for the entanglement entropy, to date, not much else is known about…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-03-18 W. Zhu , Zhoushen Huang , Yin-Chen He , Xueda Wen

The time evolution of the entanglement entropy is a key concept to understand the structure of a non-equilibrium quantum state. In a large class of models, such evolution can be understood in terms of a semiclassical picture of moving…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-01-13 Gilles Parez , Riccarda Bonsignori , Pasquale Calabrese

A vortex in a Bose-Einstein condensate on a ring undergoes quantum dynamics in response to a quantum quench in terms of partial symmetry breaking from a uniform lattice to a biperiodic one. Neither the current, a macroscopic measure, nor…

We study the temporal evolution of entanglement pertaining to two qubits interacting with a thermal bath. In particular we consider the simplest nontrivial spin bath models where symmetry breaking occurs and treat them by mean field…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Marco Lucamarini , Simone Paganelli , Stefano Mancini

We investigate topological signatures in the short-time non-equilibrium dynamics of symmetry protected topological (SPT) systems starting from initial states which break the protecting symmetry. Na\"ively, one might expect that topology…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-05-26 Jacob A. Marks , Michael Schüler , Thomas P. Devereaux

Non-equilibrium dynamics of quantum many-body systems has attracted increasing attention owing to a variety of intriguing phenomena absent in equilibrium physics. A prominent example is the quantum Mpemba effect, where subsystem symmetry is…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-01-09 Shuo Liu , Hao-Kai Zhang , Shuai Yin , Shi-Xin Zhang , Hong Yao

The finite parts of a large, locally interacting many-body system prepared out-of-equilibrium eventually equilibrate. Characterising the underlying mechanisms of this process and its timescales, however, is particularly hard as it requires…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-11 Katja Klobas , Colin Rylands , Bruno Bertini

Entanglement asymmetry is a measure that quantifies the degree of symmetry breaking at the level of a subsystem. In this work, we investigate the entanglement asymmetry in $\widehat{su}(N)_k$ Wess-Zumino-Witten model and discuss the quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-03 Harunobu Fujimura , Soichiro Shimamori

In a quantum many-body system coupled to the environment, its steady state can exhibit spontaneous symmetry breaking when a control parameter exceeds a critical value. In this study, we consider spontaneous symmetry breaking in non-steady…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-12 Taiki Haga

A state in a quantum system with a given global symmetry, $G$, can be sensitive to the presence of boundaries, which may either preserve or break this symmetry. In this work, we investigate how conformal invariant boundary conditions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-15 Yuya Kusuki , Sara Murciano , Hirosi Ooguri , Sridip Pal