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A grand challenge in many-body quantum physics is to explain the apparent connection between quantum criticality and high-temperature superconductivity in the cuprates and similar systems, such as the iron pnictides and chalcogenides. Here…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-05-30 Josef Ashkenazi , Neil F. Johnson

At quantum critical points (QCP) \cite{Pfeuty:1971,Young:1975,Hertz:1976,Chakravarty:1989,Millis:1993,Chubukov:1 994,Coleman:2005} there are quantum fluctuations on all length scales, from microscopic to macroscopic lengths, which,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Angela Kopp , Sudip Chakravarty

Quantum many-body scars (QMBS) represent a weak ergodicity-breaking phenomenon that defies the common scenario of thermalization in closed quantum systems. They are often regarded as a many-body analog of quantum scars (QS) -- a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-24 Keita Omiya

We study a system of two tunnel-coupled quantum dots, with the first dot containing interacting electrons (described by the Universal Hamiltonian) not subject to spin-orbit coupling, whereas the second contains non-interacting electrons…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Oleksandr Zelyak , Ganpathy Murthy

We investigate the magnetic quantum phase-transitions in bulk correlated metals at the level of dynamical mean-field theory. To this end, we focus on the Hubbard model on a simple cubic lattice as a function of temperature and electronic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-09-09 S. Adler , D. R. Fus , M. O. Malcolms , A. Vock , K. Held , A. A. Katanin , T. Schäfer , A. Toschi

We apply the framework of non-equilibrium quantum thermodynamics to the physics of quenched small-sized bosonic quantum gases in a one-dimensional harmonic trap. We show that dynamical orthogonality can occur in these few-body systems with…

We investigate bosonic Gaussian quantum states on an infinite cubic lattice in arbitrary spatial dimensions. We derive general properties of such states as ground states of quadratic Hamiltonians for both critical and non-critical cases.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-01-23 Norbert Schuch , J. Ignacio Cirac , Michael M. Wolf

Interactions in quantum systems may induce transitions to exotic correlated phases of matter which can be vulnerable to coupling to an environment. Here, we study the stability of a Bose-Hubbard chain coupled to a bosonic bath at zero and…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-05-18 Chu Guo , Ines de Vega , Ulrich Schollwöck , Dario Poletti

The non-equilibrium dynamics of the critical behaviour of the Boson system undergoing the second order quantum phase transition is discussed. The analysis is carried out using the Keldysh technique of the non-equilibrium dynamics…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-07-30 Mikhail Vasin

Understanding phase transitions in quantum matters constitutes a significant part of present day condensed matter physics. Quantum phase transitions concern ground state properties of many-body systems, and hence their signatures are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-12-15 Sirshendu Bhattacharyya , Subinay Dasgupta , Arnab Das

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

Dynamical instabilities can amplify small perturbations into measurable signals, offering a route to quantum-enhanced sensing. This mechanism was experimentally demonstrated in a collective-spin system with quadratic interactions, described…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Bidhi Vijaywargia , Jorge Chávez-Carlos , Francisco Pérez-Bernal , Lea F. Santos

Studying strong electron correlations has been an essential driving force for pushing the frontiers of condensed matter physics. In particular, in the vicinity of correlation-driven quantum phase transitions (QPTs), quantum critical…

Recent advances in quantum technology have enabled the simulation of quantum many-body systems on real quantum devices. However, such quantum simulators are inherently subject to decoherence, and its impact on system dynamics - particularly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-11 Yuta Hirasaki , Toshinari Itoko , Naoki Kanazawa , Eiji Saitoh

We present a systematic study of statistical mechanics for non-Hermitian quantum systems. Our work reveals that the stability of a non-Hermitian system necessitates the existence of a single path-dependent conserved quantity, which, in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-12-04 Kui Cao , Su-Peng Kou

We investigate phase transitions in boson-fermion systems. We propose an analytically solvable model (E(5/12)) to describe odd nuclei at the critical point in the transition from the spherical to $\gamma$-unstable behaviour. In the model, a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 C. E. Alonso , J. M. Arias , A. Vitturi

In this work we revisit the problem of equilibration in isolated many-body interacting quantum systems. We pay particular attention to quantum chaotic Hamiltonians, and rather than focusing on the properties of the asymptotic states and how…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-11-09 Manuel H Muñoz-Arias

Critical phase transitions contain a variety of deep and universal physics, and are intimately tied to thermodynamic quantities through scaling relations. Yet, these notions are challenged in the context of non-Hermiticity, where spatial or…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-01-06 R. Arouca , C. H. Lee , C. Morais Smith

We rigorously analyze the non-equilibrium thermodynamic behavior of various formulations of quantum Brownian motion (QBM) using the framework of stochastic thermodynamics. While the widely used Caldeira-Leggett master equation exhibits…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-06 Simone Artini , Gabriele Lo Monaco , Alberto Imparato , Mauro Paternostro , Sandro Donadi

Quantum metrology fundamentally relies upon the efficient management of quantum uncertainties. We show that, under equilibrium conditions, the management of quantum noise becomes extremely flexible around the quantum critical point of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-18 Irénée Frérot , Tommaso Roscilde