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We investigate the robustness of a dynamical phase transition against quantum fluctuations by studying the impact of a ferromagnetic nearest-neighbour spin interaction in one spatial dimension on the non-equilibrium dynamical phase diagram…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-04-09 A. Lerose , J. Marino , B. Zunkovic , A. Gambassi , A. Silva

We investigate the quantum dynamics generated by quantum quenches (QQs) of the Hamiltonian parameters in many-body systems, focusing on protocols that cross first-order and continuous quantum transitions, both in finite-size systems and in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-29 Andrea Pelissetto , Davide Rossini , Ettore Vicari

Quantum system abruptly driven from its stationary phase can reveal nontrivial dynamics upon approaching a new final state. We investigate here such dynamics for a correlated quantum dot sandwiched between the metallic and superconducting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-28 K. Wrześniewski , B. Baran , R. Taranko , T. Domański , I. Weymann

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

We investigate the non-equilibrium dynamics of the transverse field quantum Ising chain evolving from an inhomogeneous initial state given by joining two macroscopically different semi-infinite chains. We obtain integral expressions for all…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-09-11 Márton Kormos

We study quenching dynamics of a one-dimensional transverse Ising chain with nearest neighbor antiferromagentic interactions in the presence of a longitudinal field which renders the model non-integrable. The dynamics of the spin chain is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-10-07 Shraddha Sharma , Sei Suzuki , Amit Dutta

Spontaneous collapse models, which are phenomenological mechanisms introduced and designed to account for dynamical wavepacket reduction, are attracting a growing interest from the community interested in the characterisation of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-15 Giorgio Zicari , Matteo Carlesso , Andrea Trombettoni , Mauro Paternostro

Quantum systems inside high-Q cavities offer an excellent testbed for the control of emergent symmetries induced by light and their interplay with quantum matter. Recently several developments in cavity experiments with neutral atoms and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Santiago F. Caballero-Benitez

We discuss the quench dynamics near a quantum critical point focusing on the sine-Gordon model as a primary example. We suggest a unified approach to sudden and slow quenches, where the tuning parameter $\lambda(t)$ changes in time as…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-06-09 C. De Grandi , V. Gritsev , A. Polkovnikov

We inspect signatures of dynamical quantum phase transitions driven by two types of quenches acting on a correlated quantum dot embedded between superconducting and metallic reservoirs. Under stationary conditions the proximity induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-29 Kacper Wrześniewski , Ireneusz Weymann , Nicholas Sedlmayr , Tadeusz Domański

Recent experimental achievements in controlling ultracold gases in optical lattices open a new perspective on quantum many-body physics. In these experimental setups it is possible to study coherent time evolution of isolated quantum…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2010-06-04 Peter Barmettler , Matthias Punk , Vladimir Gritsev , Eugene Demler , Ehud Altman

Critical behavior developed near a quantum phase transition, interesting in its own right, offers exciting opportunities to explore the universality of strongly-correlated systems near the ground state. Cold atoms in optical lattices, in…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-04-21 Xibo Zhang , Chen-Lung Hung , Shih-Kuang Tung , Nathan Gemelke , Cheng Chin

Quantum critical systems offer promising advancements in quantum sensing and metrology, yet face limitations like critical slowing down and a restricted criticality-enhanced region. Here, we introduce a critical sensing scheme that mitigate…

We show how a quantum Ising spin chain in a time-dependent transverse magnetic field can be simulated and experimentally probed in the framework of circuit QED with current technology. The proposed setup provides a new platform for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-17 Oliver Viehmann , Jan von Delft , Florian Marquardt

Quantum critical states exhibit strong quantum fluctuations and are therefore highly susceptible to perturbations. In this work we study the dynamical stability against a sudden coupling to these strong fluctuations by quenching the order…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-02-21 Markus Heyl

We study quantum quench in a holographic model of a zero temperature insulator-superfluid transition. The model is a modification of that of arXiv:0911.0962 and involves a self-coupled complex scalar field, Einstein gravity with a negative…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 Pallab Basu , Diptarka Das , Sumit R. Das , Tatsuma Nishioka

We study the dynamics of bosonic atoms on a two-dimensional square lattice, where atomic interactions are long-ranged with either a box or soft-core shape. The latter can be realized through laser dressing ground-state atoms to…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-01-22 Yijia Zhou , Yongqiang Li , Rejish Nath , Weibin Li

We study the time evolution in the transverse-field Ising chain subject to quantum quenches of finite duration, ie, a continuous change in the transverse magnetic field over a finite time. Specifically, we consider the dynamics of the total…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-10-25 Tatjana Puskarov , Dirk Schuricht

We analyze the coherent quantum evolution of a many-particle system after slowly sweeping a power-law confining potential. The amplitude of the confining potential is varied in time along a power-law ramp such that the many-particle system…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-19 Mario Collura , Dragi Karevski

We report on the experimental observation of scaling in the time evolution following a sudden quench into the vicinity of a quantum critical point. The experimental system, a two-component Bose gas with coherent exchange between the…