English
Related papers

Related papers: Mereological Quantum Phase Transitions

200 papers

The concept of quantum phase transitions (QPT) plays a central role in the description of condensed matter systems. In this contribution, we perform high-quality wavefunction-based simulations to demonstrate the existence of a quantum phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-25 Tobias Serwatka , Roger G. Melko , Anton Burkov , Pierre-Nicholas Roy

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

Transitions of many-particle quantum systems between distinct phases at absolute-zero temperature, known as quantum phase transitions, require an exacting treatment of particle correlations. In this work, we present a general…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-29 Samuel Warren , LeeAnn M. Sager-Smith , David A. Mazziotti

We have constructed a general theory describing the topological quantum phase transitions in 3D systems with broken inversion symmetry. While the consideration of the system's codimension generally predicts the appearance of a stable…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-05 Bohm-Jung Yang , Mohammad Saeed Bahramy , Ryotaro Arita , Hiroki Isobe , Eun-Gook Moon , Naoto Nagaosa

Quantum Process Tomography (QPT) methods aim at identifying, i.e. estimating, a quantum process. QPT is a major quantum information processing tool, since it especially allows one to experimentally characterize the actual behavior of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-27 Yannick Deville , Alain Deville

Dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs) are a powerful concept of probing far-from-equilibrium criticality in quantum many-body systems. With the strong ongoing experimental drive to quantum-simulate lattice gauge theories, it becomes…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-12-13 Maarten Van Damme , Torsten V. Zache , Debasish Banerjee , Philipp Hauke , Jad C. Halimeh

We show that thermodynamics can be formulated naturally from the intrinsic geometry of phase space alone-without postulating an ensemble, which instead emerges from the geometric structure itself. Within this formulation, phase transitions…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-03 Loris Di Cairano

Topological phase transitions challenge conventional paradigms in many-body physics by separating phases that are locally indistinguishable yet globally distinct. Using a quantum simulator of interacting erbium atoms in an optical lattice,…

Quantum phase transitions encompass a variety of phenomena that occur in quantum systems exhibiting several possible symmetries. Traditionally, these transitions are explored by continuously varying a control parameter that connects two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-12 Á. Sáiz , J. Khalouf-Rivera , J. M. Arias , P. Pérez-Fernández , J. Casado-Pascual

We present a numerical study of a quantum phase transition from a spin-polarized to a topologically ordered phase in a system of spin-1/2 particles on a torus. We demonstrate that this non-symmetry-breaking topological quantum phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-06-07 A. Hamma , W. Zhang , S. Haas , D. A. Lidar

After decades of progress and effort, obtaining a phase diagram for a strongly-correlated topological system still remains a challenge. Although in principle one could turn to Wilson loops and long-range entanglement, evaluating these…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-12-14 Yi Zhang , Roger G. Melko , Eun-Ah Kim

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

Zero-temperature or quantum phase transitions in itinerant electronic systems both with and without quenched disordered are discussed. Phase transitions considered include, the ferromagnetic transition, the antiferromagnetic transition, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-02-03 T. R. Kirkpatrick , D. Belitz

A quantum system can undergo a continuous phase transition at the absolute zero of temperature as some parameter entering its Hamiltonian is varied. These transitions are particularly interesting for, in contrast to their classical finite…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 S. L. Sondhi , S. M. Girvin , J. P. Carini , D. Shahar

We show that there exist dynamical phase transitions (DPTs), as defined in [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110 135704 (2013)], in the transverse-field Ising model (TFIM) away from the static quantum critical points. We study a class of special states…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-02-19 James M. Hickey , Sam Genway , Juan P. Garrahan

The past few years have seen a revived interest in quantum geometrical characterizations of band structures due to the rapid development of topological insulators and semi-metals. Although the metric tensor has been connected to many…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-07 Adrien Bouhon , Abigail Timmel , Robert-Jan Slager

In the tensorial group field theory (TGFT) approach to quantum gravity, the basic quanta of the theory correspond to discrete building blocks of geometry. It is expected that their collective dynamics gives rise to continuum spacetime at a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-14 Luca Marchetti , Daniele Oriti , Andreas G. A. Pithis , Johannes Thürigen

Transformations between the plateau states of the quantum Hall effect (QHE) are an archetypical example of quantum phase transitions (QPTs) between phases with non-trivial topological order. These transitions appear to be well-described by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-09-06 Andrey Rogachev

Control landscape phase transitions (CLPTs) occur as abrupt changes in the cost function landscape upon varying a control parameter, and can be revealed by non-analytic points in statistical order parameters. A prime example are quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-03 Nicolò Beato , Pranay Patil , Marin Bukov

Quantum process tomography (QPT) is a fundamental tool for fully characterizing quantum systems. It relies on querying a set of quantum states as input to the quantum process. Previous QPT methods typically employ a straightforward strategy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-06 Jiaqi Yang , Xiaohua Xu , Wei Xie