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We consider the non-equilibrium dynamics arising after a quench of the transverse magnetic field of a quantum Ising chain, together with the sudden switch-on of a long-range interaction term. The dynamics after the quantum quench is mapped…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-12-21 M. Marcuzzi , J. Marino , A. Gambassi , A. Silva

Non-Hermitian quantum dynamics lie in an intermediate regime between unitary Hamiltonian dynamics and trace-preserving non-unitary open quantum system dynamics. Given differences in the noise tolerance of unitary and non-unitary dynamics,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-10-17 Weihua Xie , Michael Kolodrubetz , Vadim Oganesyan

Quantum information processing exploits all the features quantum mechanics offers. Among them there is the possibility to induce nonlinear maps on a quantum system by involving two or more identical copies of the given system in the same…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-05 Martin Malachov , Igor Jex , Orsolya Kálmán , Tamás Kiss

Periodically driven quantum systems can host non-equilibrium phenomena without static analogs, including in their entanglement dynamics. Here, we discover $temporal$ $entanglement$ $transitions$ (TET) in a Floquet spin chain, which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-13 Karun Gadge , Abhinav Prem , Rishabh Jha

Floquet dynamical quantum phase transitions (FDQPTs) reveal many nonequilibrium critical phenomena in periodically driven quantum systems, and their underlying mechanisms have attracted deep attention in recent years. In this paper, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-22 Wen-Hui Nie , Mei-Yu Zhang , Lin-Cheng Wang , Chong Li

Quantum Ising model in one dimension is an exactly solvable example of a quantum phase transition. We investigate its behavior during a quench from a paramagnetic to ferromagnetic phase caused by a gradual turning off of the transverse…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-11-26 Lukasz Cincio , Jacek Dziarmaga , Marek M. Rams , Wojciech H. Zurek

Quantum multicritical points (QMCPs) emerge at the junction of two or more quantum phase transitions due to the interplay of disparate fluctuations, leading to novel universality classes. While quantum critical points have been well…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-11-15 István A. Kovács

We study the slow quenching dynamics (characterized by an inverse rate, $\tau^{-1}$) of a one-dimensional transverse Ising chain with nearest neighbor ferromagentic interactions across the quantum critical point (QCP) and analyze the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-06-08 Shraddha Sharma , Uma Divakaran , Anatoli Polkovnikov , Amit Dutta

Quantum many body systems with long range interactions are known to display many fascinating phenomena experimentally observable in trapped ions, Rydberg atoms and polar molecules. Among these are dynamical phase transitions which occur…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-11-11 Giulia Piccitto , Alessandro Silva

Quantum coherence will undoubtedly play a fundamental role in understanding of the dynamics of quantum many-body systems, thereby to reveal its genuine contribution is of great importance. In this paper, we specialize our discussions to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-12 Bao-Ming Xu , Chao-Quan Wang

We present two approaches to the dynamics of a quench-induced phase transition in quantum Ising model. The first one retraces steps of the standard approach to thermodynamic second order phase transitions in the quantum setting. The second…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-11-26 Wojciech H. Zurek , Uwe Dorner , Peter Zoller

Chaos transition, as an important topic, has become an active research subject in non-linear science. By considering a Dicke Hamiltonian coupled to a bath of harmonic oscillator, we have been able to introduce a logistic map with quantum…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2012-07-25 S. Ahadpour , N. Hematpour

We study several dynamical properties of a recently proposed implementation of the quantum transverse-field Ising chain in the framework of circuit QED. Particular emphasis is placed on the effects of disorder on the nonequilibrium behavior…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-22 Oliver Viehmann , Jan von Delft , Florian Marquardt

We review the dynamics after quantum quenches in integrable quantum spin chains. We give a pedagogical introduction to relaxation in isolated quantum systems, and discuss the description of the steady state by (gen- eralized) Gibbs…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-07-06 Fabian H. L. Essler , Maurizio Fagotti

Excited state quantum phase transitions (ESQPTs) are generalizations of quantum phase transitions (QPTs) to excited levels. They are associated with local divergences in the density of states. Here, we investigate how the presence of an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-07-27 Lea F. Santos , Marco Távora , Francisco Pérez-Bernal

We study the quench dynamics of the topological quantum phase transition in the two-dimensional transverse Wen-plaquette model, which has a phase transition from a Z2 topologically ordered to a spin-polarized state. By mapping the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Long Zhang , Su-Peng Kou , Youjin Deng

We study analytically and numerically quench dynamics and defects formation in the quantum Ising model in the presence of a time-dependent transverse magnetic field. We generalize the Landau-Ziner formula to the case of non-adiabatic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-01-01 Alexander I Nesterov , Mónica F Ramírez

A conventional quantum phase transition (QPT) can be accessed by varying a real parameter at absolute zero temperature. Motivated by the discovery of the pseudo-Hermiticity of non-Hermitian systems, we explore the QPT in non-Hermitian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-16 C. Li , G. Zhang , X. Z. Zhang , Z. Song

We develop a method to calculate generic time-dependent correlation functions for inhomogeneous quantum quenches in (1+1)-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT) induced by sudden Hamiltonian deformations that modulate the energy density…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-06-06 Xinyu Liu , Alexander McDonald , Tokiro Numasawa , Biao Lian , Shinsei Ryu

Understanding the collective quantum dynamics of nonequilibrium many-body systems is an outstanding challenge in quantum science. In particular, dynamics driven by quantum fluctuations are important for the formation of exotic quantum…