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A remarkable consequence of spontaneously breaking the time translational symmetry in a system, is the emergence of time crystals. In periodically driven systems, discrete time crystals (DTC) can be realized which have a periodicity that is…

Dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs) are criticalities in the time evolution of quantum systems and their existence has been theoretically predicted and experimentally observed. However, how the system behaves in the vicinity of DQPT…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-06-20 Cheuk Yiu Wong , Wing Chi Yu

Global quenches of quantum many-body models can give rise to periodic dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs) directly connected to the zeros of a Landau order parameter (OP). The associated dynamics has been argued to bear close…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-15 Maarten Van Damme , Jean-Yves Desaules , Zlatko Papić , Jad C. Halimeh

Dynamic quantum phase transitions (DQPT) following quantum quenches exhibit singular behavior of the overlap between the initial and evolved states. Here we present a formalism to incorporate a geometric phase into quench dynamics of mixed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-12 Jia-Chen Tang , Xu-Yang Hou , Zheng Zhou , Hao Guo , Chih-Chun Chien

Many-body quantum systems, under suitable conditions, exhibit time-translation symmetry breaking and settle in a discrete time crystalline (DTC) phase -- an out-of-equilibrium quantum phase of matter. The defining feature of DTC is a robust…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-14 Gourab Das , Saptarshi Saha , Rangeet Bhattacharyya

Dynamical phase transitions extend the notion of criticality to non-stationary settings and are characterized by sudden changes in the macroscopic properties of time-evolving quantum systems. Investigations of dynamical phase transitions…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-11-04 Sebastiano Peotta , Fredrik Brange , Aydin Deger , Teemu Ojanen , Christian Flindt

We study exact zeros of Loschmidt echo and quantum speed limit time for dynamical quantum phase transition in finite size systems. Our results illustrate that exact zeros of Loschmidt echo exist even in finite size quantum systems when the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-30 Bozhen Zhou , Yumeng Zeng , Shu Chen

We use the quantum Fisher information (QFI) to diagnose a dynamical phase transition (DPT) in a closed quantum system, which is usually defined in terms of non-analytic behaviour of a time-averaged order parameter. Employing the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-08 Qingze Guan , Robert J. Lewis-Swan

This paper introduces complex dynamics methods to study dynamical quantum phase transitions in the one- and two-dimensional quantum 3-state Potts model. The quench involves switching off an infinite transverse field. The time-dependent…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-03-14 Somendra M. Bhattacharjee

Using an infinite Matrix Product State (iMPS) technique based on the time-dependent variational principle (TDVP), we study two major types of dynamical phase transitions (DPT) in the one-dimensional transverse-field Ising model (TFIM) with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-07-23 Jad C. Halimeh , Valentin Zauner-Stauber

Non-thermal dynamical critical behavior can arise in isolated quantum systems brought out of equilibirum by a change in time of their parameters. While this phenomenon has been studied in a variety of systems in the case of a sudden quench,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-12-21 Anna Maraga , Pietro Smacchia , Alessandro Silva

Discrete time crystals (DTC) exhibit a special non-equilibrium phase of matter in periodically driven many-body systems with spontaneous breaking of time translational symmetry. The presence of decoherence generally enhances thermalization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-31 Rozhin Yousefjani , Angelo Carollo , Krzysztof Sacha , Saif Al-Kuwari , Abolfazl Bayat

In this work it is shown that dynamical quantum phase transitions in Loschmidt echos control the nonequilibrium dynamics of the order parameter after particular quantum quenches in systems with broken-symmetry phases. A direct connection…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-11-24 Markus Heyl

We investigate the non-equilibrium dynamics of a Heisenberg spin-1/2 chain driven by a periodic magnetic field. Based on its instantaneous integrability and inherent symmetry, we analytically study the magnetization and many-body tunneling…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-22 Xiaotong Chen , Jianda Wu

Quantum phase transitions have been shown to be highly beneficial for quantum sensing, owing to diverging quantum Fisher information close to criticality. In this work we consider a periodically modulated Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick model to show…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Rahul Ghosh , Bandita Das , Victor Mukherjee

This study investigates quantum-enhanced parameter estimation through continuous monitoring in open quantum systems that exhibit a dissipative time crystal phase. We first analytically derive the global quantum Fisher information (QFI) rate…

It has been well established that spatially extended, bistable systems that are driven by an oscillating field exhibit a nonequilibrium dynamic phase transition (DPT). The DPT occurs when the field frequency is on the order of the inverse…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Korniss , P. A. Rikvold , M. A. Novotny

From the perspective of low-lying excited states, we study the deconfined quantum critical point (DQCP) in a one-dimensional quantum spin chain by means of the entanglement entropy and fidelity. Our results show that there is a close…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-02-08 Yan-Chao Li , Yuan-Hang Zhou , Yuan Zhang , Hai-Qing Lin

The thermodynamics of quantum phase transitions has long been a rich area of research, providing numerous insights and enhancing our understanding of this important phenomenon. This theoretical framework has been well-developed specially…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-05 Andesson B. Nascimento , Lucas C. Céleri

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