Recent experimental developments in diverse areas—ranging from cold atomic gases to
light-driven semiconductors to microcavity arrays—move systems into the focus which are …

Coupling a quantum many-body system to an external environment dramatically changes its
dynamics and offers novel possibilities not found in closed systems. Of special interest are …

Interacting many-body systems display enhanced sensitivity close to critical transition points
due to diverging quantum fluctuations. This criticality-based enhancement has been …

In this article we provide a review of geometrical methods employed in the analysis of
quantum phase transitions and non-equilibrium dissipative phase transitions. After a …

Multistability is ubiquitous in nature. From a mathematical point of view, multistability is the
coexistence of stable states (attractors) for the same set of system parameters. The …

Terahertz (THz) near-field imaging is a flourishing discipline 1, 2, with applications from
fundamental studies of beam propagation 3 to the characterization of metamaterials 4, 5 and …

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 …

We present a novel generic framework to approximate the nonequilibrium steady states of
dissipative quantum many-body systems. It is based on the variational minimization of a …

The notion of spontaneous symmetry breaking has been well established to characterize
classical and quantum phase transitions of matter, such as condensation, crystallization or …

Many-body systems with both coherent dynamics and dissipation constitute a rich class of
models which are nevertheless much less explored than their dissipationless counterparts …