Properties and applications of the Kirkwood–Dirac distribution

DRM Arvidsson-Shukur, WF Braasch Jr… - New Journal of …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
There are several mathematical formulations of quantum mechanics. The Schrödinger
picture expresses quantum states in terms of wavefunctions over, eg position or momentum …

Information scrambling and chaos in open quantum systems

P Zanardi, N Anand - Physical Review A, 2021 - APS
Out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOCs) have been extensively used over the past few
years to study information scrambling and quantum chaos in many-body systems. In this …

Calibration-free vector magnetometry using nitrogen-vacancy center in diamond integrated with optical vortex beam

B Chen, X Hou, F Ge, X Zhang, Y Ji, H Li, P Qian… - Nano Letters, 2020 - ACS Publications
We report a new method to determine the orientation of individual nitrogen-vacancy (NV)
centers in a bulk diamond and use them to realize a calibration-free vector magnetometer …

Scrambling of algebras in open quantum systems

F Andreadakis, N Anand, P Zanardi - Physical Review A, 2023 - APS
Many quantitative approaches to the dynamical scrambling of information in quantum
systems involve the study of out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOCs). In this paper we …

Out-of-time-order correlation as a witness for topological phase transitions

Q Bin, LL Wan, F Nori, Y Wu, XY Lü - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
We propose a physical witness for dynamically detecting topological phase transitions
(TPTs) via an experimentally observable out-of-time-order correlation (OTOC). The …

Many-body dynamical phase transition in a quasiperiodic potential

R Modak, D Rakshit - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
Much has been learned regarding dynamical quantum phase transition (DQPT) due to
sudden quenches across quantum critical points in traditional quantum systems. However …

Dynamical quantum phase transitions in a mesoscopic superconducting system

K Wrześniewski, I Weymann, N Sedlmayr, T Domański - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
We inspect the signatures of dynamical quantum phase transitions driven by quantum
quenches acting on a correlated quantum dot embedded between superconducting and …

Dynamical topological quantum phase transitions in high-order topological systems

HX **ao, W Jiang, P Qian, H Li, Z Li, H Shen, B Chen - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
We investigate the nonequilibrium dynamics of two multiband boundary-obstructed
topological systems (BOTSs) and a higher-order topological superconductor (HOTSC). The …

Scrambling and operator entanglement in local non-Hermitian quantum systems

B Barch, N Anand, J Marshall, E Rieffel, P Zanardi - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
The breakdown of Lieb-Robinson bounds in local, non-Hermitian quantum systems opens
up the possibility for a rich landscape of quantum many-body phenomenology. We elucidate …

Floquet dynamical quantum phase transitions under synchronized periodic driving

R Jafari, A Akbari, U Mishra, H Johannesson - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
We study a generic class of fermionic two-band models under synchronized periodic driving,
ie, with the different terms in a Hamiltonian subject to periodic drives with the same …