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Localization in spin chains with facilitation constraints and disordered interactions (2019)
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Quantum many-body systems with kinetic constraints exhibit intriguing relaxation dynamics. Recent experimental progress in the field of cold atomic gases offers a handle for probing collective behavior of such systems, in particular for understanding... Read More about Localization in spin chains with facilitation constraints and disordered interactions.

Coherence, entanglement, and quantumness in closed and open systems with conserved charge, with an application to many-body localization (2019)
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While the scaling of entanglement in a quantum system can be used to distinguish many-body quantum phases, it is usually hard to quantify the amount of entanglement in mixed states of open quantum systems, while measuring entanglement experimentally,... Read More about Coherence, entanglement, and quantumness in closed and open systems with conserved charge, with an application to many-body localization.

Unraveling the large deviation statistics of Markovian open quantum systems (2019)
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We analyze dynamical large deviations of quantum trajectories in Markovian open quantum systems in their full generality. We derive a quantum level-2.5 large deviation principle for these systems, which describes the joint fluctuations of time-averag... Read More about Unraveling the large deviation statistics of Markovian open quantum systems.

Quantum accelerated approach to the thermal state of classical all-to-all connected spin systems with applications to pattern retrieval in the Hopfield neural network (2019)
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We explore the question as to whether quantum effects can yield a speedup of the nonequilibrium evolution of fully connected quadratic spin models towards a classical thermal state. In our approach we exploit the fact that the thermal state of a spin... Read More about Quantum accelerated approach to the thermal state of classical all-to-all connected spin systems with applications to pattern retrieval in the Hopfield neural network.

Discrete time crystals in the absence of manifest symmetries or disorder in open quantum systems (2019)
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We establish a link between metastability and a discrete time-crystalline phase in a periodically driven open quantum system. The mechanism we highlight requires neither the system to display any microscopic symmetry nor the presence of disorder, but... Read More about Discrete time crystals in the absence of manifest symmetries or disorder in open quantum systems.

Non-equilibrium absorbing state phase transitions in discrete-time quantum cellular automaton dynamics on spin lattices (2018)
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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 separable. We show... Read More about Non-equilibrium absorbing state phase transitions in discrete-time quantum cellular automaton dynamics on spin lattices.

Dynamical criticality in open systems: nonperturbative physics, microscopic origin, and direct observation (2018)
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Driven diffusive systems may undergo phase transitions to sustain atypical values of the current. This leads in some cases to symmetry-broken space-time trajectories which enhance the probability of such fluctuations. Here, we shed light on both the... Read More about Dynamical criticality in open systems: nonperturbative physics, microscopic origin, and direct observation.

Catching and reversing quantum jumps and thermodynamics of quantum trajectories (2018)
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A recent experiment by Minev et. al [arXiv:1803.00545] demonstrated that in a dissipative (artificial) 3-level atom with strongly intermittent dynamics it is possible to " catch and reverse " a quantum jump " mid-flight " : by the conditional applica... Read More about Catching and reversing quantum jumps and thermodynamics of quantum trajectories.

Singularities in large deviations of work in quantum quenches (2018)
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We investigate large deviations of the work performed in a quantum quench across two different phases separated by a quantum critical point, using as an example the Dicke model quenched from its superradiant to its normal phase. We extract the distri... Read More about Singularities in large deviations of work in quantum quenches.

Enhancing correlation times for edge spins through dissipation (2018)
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Spin chains with open boundaries, such as the transverse field Ising model, can display coherence times for edge spins that diverge with the system size as a consequence of almost conserved operators, the so-called strong zero modes. Here we discuss... Read More about Enhancing correlation times for edge spins through dissipation.

Unified Thermodynamic Uncertainty Relations in Linear Response (2018)
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Thermodynamic uncertainty relations (TURs) are recently established relations between the relative uncertainty of time-integrated currents and entropy production in non-equilibrium systems. For small perturbations away from equilibrium, linear respon... Read More about Unified Thermodynamic Uncertainty Relations in Linear Response.

Current fluctuations in boundary-driven quantum spin chains (2018)
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Boundary-driven quantum spin chains are paradigmatic nonequilibrium systems featuring the presence of particle currents. In general, it may not be possible to distinguish an incoherent type of particle transport from a truly quantum coherent one thro... Read More about Current fluctuations in boundary-driven quantum spin chains.

Glassy dynamics due to a trajectory phase transition in dissipative Rydberg gases (2018)
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The physics of highly excited Rydberg atoms is governed by blockade or exclusion interactions that hinder the excitation of atoms in the proximity of a previously excited one. This leads to cooperative effects and a relaxation dynamics displaying spa... Read More about Glassy dynamics due to a trajectory phase transition in dissipative Rydberg gases.

Spectral properties of simple classical and quantum reset processes (2018)
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Phases of quantum dimers from ensembles of classical stochastic trajectories (2018)
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We study the connection between the phase behaviour of quantum dimers and the dynamics of classical stochastic dimers. At the so-called Rokhsar–Kivelson (RK) point a quantum dimer Hamiltonian is equivalent to the Markov generator of the dynamics of c... Read More about Phases of quantum dimers from ensembles of classical stochastic trajectories.

Quantum slow relaxation and metastability due to dynamical constraints (2018)
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One of the general mechanisms that give rise to the slow cooperative relaxation characteristic of classical glasses is the presence of kinetic constraints in the dynamics. Here we show that dynamical constraints can similarly lead to slow thermalisat... Read More about Quantum slow relaxation and metastability due to dynamical constraints.

Making rare events typical in Markovian open quantum systems (2018)
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Large dynamical fluctuations—atypical realizations of the dynamics sustained over long periods of time—can play a fundamental role in determining the properties of collective behavior of both classical and quantum nonequilibrium systems. Rare dynamic... Read More about Making rare events typical in Markovian open quantum systems.

Solvation in space-time: pre-transition effects in trajectory space (2018)
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We demonstrate pre-transition effects in space--time in trajectories of systems in which the dynamics displays a first-order phase transition between distinct dynamical phases. These effects are analogous to those observed for thermodynamic first-ord... Read More about Solvation in space-time: pre-transition effects in trajectory space.

Rare behavior of growth processes via umbrella sampling of trajectories (2018)
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We compute probability distributions of trajectory observables for reversible and irreversible growth processes. These results reveal a correspondence between reversible and irreversible processes, at particular points in parameter space, in terms of... Read More about Rare behavior of growth processes via umbrella sampling of trajectories.

Open quantum generalisation of Hopfield neural networks (2018)
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We propose a new framework to understand how quantum effects may impact on the dynamics of neural networks. We implement the dynamics of neural networks in terms of Markovian open quantum systems, which allows us to treat thermal and quantum coherent... Read More about Open quantum generalisation of Hopfield neural networks.