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In this paper we: 1) show how the smooth geometry of spaces of normal quantum states over W*-algebras (generalised spaces of density matrices) may be used to substantially enrich the description of quantum dynamics in the algebraic and path…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-14 Ryszard Paweł Kostecki

Using the mapping of the Fokker-Planck description of classical stochastic dynamics onto a quantum Hamiltonian, we argue that a dynamical glass transition in the former must have a precise definition in terms of a quantum phase transition…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-08-10 Claudio Castelnovo , Claudio Chamon , David Sherrington

Quantum criticality describes the collective fluctuations of matter undergoing a second-order phase transition at zero temperature. Heavy fermion metals have in recent years emerged as prototypical systems to study quantum critical points.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-05-24 Philipp Gegenwart , Qimiao Si , Frank Steglich

Dynamical quantum phase transitions in non-Hermitian systems pose fundamental challenges due to the intrinsic biorthogonality of their eigenstates. In this work, we extend a biorthogonal framework to investigate dynamical quantum phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Haoran Gu , Yubo Zhao , Siyuan Cheng , Yuee Xie , Xiaosen Yang , Yuanping Chen

We introduce a novel time-energy uncertainty relation within the context of restarts in monitored quantum dynamics. Initially, we investigate the concept of ``first hitting time'' in quantum systems using an IBM quantum computer and a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-01-07 Ruoyu Yin , Qingyuan Wang , Sabine Tornow , Eli Barkai

We overview the concept of dynamical phase transitions in isolated quantum systems quenched out of equilibrium. We focus on non-equilibrium transitions characterized by an order parameter, which features qualitatively distinct temporal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-10-25 Jamir Marino , Martin Eckstein , Matthew S. Foster , Ana Maria Rey

By analyzing the probability distributions of the Loschmidt echo (LE) and quantum work, we examine the nonequilibrium effects of a quantum many-body system, which exhibits an excited-state quantum phase transition (ESQPT). We find that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-04 Qian Wang , H. T. Quan

A quantum critical point (QCP) is a singularity in the phase diagram arising due to quantum mechanical fluctuations. The exotic properties of some of the most enigmatic physical systems, including unconventional metals and superconductors,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-05-13 P. Merchant , B. Normand , K. W. Krämer , M. Boehm , D. F. McMorrow , Ch. Rüegg

A dynamical quantum phase transition can occur during time evolution of sudden quenched quantum systems across a phase transition. It corresponds to the nonanalytic behavior at a critical time of the rate function of the quantum state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-14 Xue-Yi Guo , Chao Yang , Yu Zeng , Yi Peng , He-Kang Li , Hui Deng , Yi-Rong Jin , Shu Chen , Dongning Zheng , Heng Fan

The study of quantum phase transitions requires the preparation of a many-body system near its ground state, a challenging task for many experimental systems. The measurement of quench dynamics, on the other hand, is now a routine practice…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-13 Paraj Titum , Joseph T. Iosue , James R. Garrison , Alexey V. Gorshkov , Zhe-Xuan Gong

We introduce a discrete-time quantum dynamics on a two-dimensional lattice that describes the evolution of a $1+1$-dimensional spin system. The underlying quantum map is constructed such that the reduced state at each time step is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-11 I. Lesanovsky , Katarzyna Macieszczak , Juan P. Garrahan

Critical properties of the dynamical phase transition in the quenched generalized Bose-Anderson impurity model are studied in the mean-field limit of an infinite number of channels. The transition separates the evolution toward ground state…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-05-24 Dmitry V. Chichinadze , Alexey N. Rubtsov

Dynamical quantum phase transitions are at the forefront of current efforts to understand quantum matter out of equilibrium. Except for a few exactly solvable models, predictions of these critical phenomena typically rely on advanced…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-07-18 Fredrik Brange , Sebastiano Peotta , Christian Flindt , Teemu Ojanen

Considerable theoretical and experimental efforts have been devoted to the quench dynamics, in particular, the dynamical quantum phase transition (DQPT) and the steady-state transition. These developments have motivated us to study the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-03-30 Pei Wang , Gao Xianlong

The traditional dynamical phase transition refers to the appearance of singularities in an observable with respect to a control parameter for a late-time state or singularities in the rate function of the Loschmidt echo with respect to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-30 Ze-Chuan Liu , Kai Li , Yong Xu

It is of high interest, in the context of Adiabatic Quantum Computation, to better understand the complex dynamics of a quantum system subject to a time-dependent Hamiltonian, when driven across a quantum phase transition. We present here…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Paolo Solinas , Pedro Ribeiro , Rémy Mosseri

We study the quantum phase diagram and the onset of quantum critical phenomena in a generalized Dicke model that includes collective qubit-qubit interactions. By employing semiclassical techniques, we analyze the corresponding classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-21 Ricardo Herrera Romero , Miguel Angel Bastarrachea-Magnani , Román Linares

We investigate the role of a statistical complexity measure to assign equilibration in isolated quantum systems. While unitary dynamics preserve global purity, expectation values of observables often exhibit equilibration-like behavior,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-14 Marcos G. Alpino , Tiago Debarba , Reinaldo O. Vianna , André T. Cesário

We propose a method to study dynamical response of a quantum system by evolving it with an imaginary-time dependent Hamiltonian. The leading non-adiabatic response of the system driven to a quantum-critical point is universal and…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-28 C. De Grandi , A. Polkovnikov , A. W. Sandvik

Metastability is a quintessential feature of first order quantum phase transitions, which is lost either by dynamical instability or by nucleating bubbles of a true vacuum through quantum tunneling. By considering a drive across the first…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-07-28 Aritra Sinha , Titas Chanda , Jacek Dziarmaga