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Inspired by the Hayden-Preskill protocol for black hole evaporation, we consider the dynamics of a quantum many-body qudit system coupled to an external environment, where the time evolution is driven by the continuous limit of certain…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-14 Lorenzo Piroli , Christoph Sünderhauf , Xiao-Liang Qi

We solve the dynamics of an ensemble of interacting rotors coupled to two leads at different chemical potential letting a current flow through the system and driving it out of equilibrium. We show that at low temperature the coarsening…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-03-17 Camille Aron , Giulio Biroli , Leticia F. Cugliandolo

In quantum information theory, quantum discord has been proposed as a tool to characterise the presence of "quantum correlations" between the subparts of a given system. Whether a system behaves quantum-mechanically or classically is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-20 Jerome Martin , Amaury Micheli , Vincent Vennin

The study of quantum systems evolving from initial states to distinguishable, orthogonal final states is important for information processing applications such as quantum computing and quantum metrology. However, for most unitary evolutions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-19 Sam Morley-Short , Lawrence Rosenfeld , Pieter Kok

The origin of continuous energy spectra in large disordered interacting quantum systems is one of the key unsolved problems in quantum physics. While small quantum systems with discrete energy levels are noiseless and stay coherent forever…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Emilio Cuevas , Mikhail Feigel'man , Lev Ioffe , Marc Mezard

Using holographic duality, we investigate thermalization process when two finite-size quantum critical systems are brought into thermal contact along a perfectly transmitting interface. Through real-time simulations of gravitational…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-09 Li Li , Yan Liu , Hao-Tian Sun

We discuss recent results in the study of the evolution of strongly coupled field theories in the presence of time dependent couplings using the holographic correspondence. The aim is to understand (i) thermalization and (ii) universal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Sumit R. Das

Quantum phase transitions (QPTs) in the spin-boson model with/without the rotating-wave approximation (RWA) are systematically investigated through variational calculations using a sub-Ohmic bath with high spectral density. Four cases…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Nengji Zhou , Yulong Shen , Zhe Sun

The effects of a boundary on the circuit complexity are studied in two dimensional theories. The analysis is performed in the holographic realization of a conformal field theory with a boundary by employing different proposals for the dual…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-15 Paolo Braccia , Aldo L. Cotrone , Erik Tonni

Prethermalization refers to the transient phenomenon where a system thermalizes according to a Hamiltonian that is not the generator of its evolution. We provide here a rigorous framework for quantum spin systems where prethermalization is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-07-11 Dmitry Abanin , Wojciech De Roeck , Wen Wei Ho , Francois Huveneers

We exploit a ferromagnetic chain of interacting $d$-level ($d>2$) particles for arbitrary perfect transfer of quantum states with $(d-1)$ levels. The presence of one extra degree of freedom in the Hilbert space of particles, which is not…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-06-04 Abolfazl Bayat

Quantum complexity has already shed light on CFT states dual to bulk geometries containing spacelike singularities \cite{Barbon:2015ria, Bolognesi:2018ion, Caputa:2021pad}. In this work, we turn our attention to quantum complexity of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-09 Gaurav Katoch , Jie Ren , Shubho R. Roy

We investigate the timescale on which quantum corrections alter the predictions of classical field theory for scalar field dark matter. This is accomplished by including second order terms in the evolution proportional to the covariance of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-16 Andrew Eberhardt , Michael Kopp , Tom Abel

It is known that mixed quantum states are highly entropic states of imperfect knowledge (i.e., incomplete information) about a quantum system, while pure quantum states are states of perfect knowledge (i.e., complete information) with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 Carlo Cafaro , Paul M. Alsing

Understanding how temporal order degrades in quantum systems remains a central issue in nonequilibrium physics. Here we study the melting of discrete time crystals in a periodically driven holographic system, where a distinct (discrete)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-16 Yu-Qi Lei , Xian-Hui Ge , Yu Tian , Shao-Feng Wu

We have made a variational analysis on an evolution of superconductivity from weak to strong coupling regime. In contrast to a crossover without thermodynamic anomaly found in a dilute system, we show the existence of a quantum phase…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Saito , H. Yoshimoto , Y. Y. Suzuki , S. Kurihara

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

The main objective of quantum simulation is an in-depth understanding of many-body physics. It is important for fundamental issues (quantum phase transitions, transport, . . . ) and for the development of innovative materials. Analytic…

Using the expression of the fidelity for the most general Gaussian quantum states, the quantum fidelity is studied for the states of a harmonic oscillator interacting with an environment, in particular with a thermal bath. The time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Aurelian Isar

Understanding the complexity of quantum many-body systems has been attracting much attention recently for its fundamental importance in characterizing complex quantum phases beyond the scope of quantum entanglement. Here, we investigate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-31 Wei Xia , Yijia Zhou , Xingze Qiu , Xiaopeng Li