Dynamical quantum phase transitions in Weyl semimetals

Abstract

The quench dynamics in type-I inversion symmetric Weyl semimetals (WSM) are explored in this work which, due to the form of the Hamiltonian, may be readily extended to two-dimensional Chern insulators. We analyze the role of equilibrium topological properties characterized by the Chern number of the pre-quench ground state in dictating the non-equilibrium dynamics of the system, specifically, the emergence of dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPT). By investigating the ground state fidelity, it is found that a change in the signed Chern number constitutes a sufficient but not necessary condition for the occurrence of DQPTs. Depending on the ratio of the transverse and longitudinal hopping parameters, DQPTs may also be observed for quenches lying entirely within the initial Chern phase. Additionally, we analyze the zeros of the boundary partition function discovering that while the zeros generally form two-dimensional structures resulting in one-dimensional critical times, infinitesimal quenches may lead to one-dimensional zeros with zero-dimensional critical times provided the quench distance scales appropriately with the system size. This is strikingly manifested in the nature of non-analyticies of the dynamical free energy, revealing a logarithmic singularity. In addition, following recent experimental advances in observing the dynamical Fisher zeros of the Loschmidt overlap amplitude through azimuthal Bloch phase vortices by Bloch-state tomography, we rigorously investigate the same in WSMs. Finally, we establish the relationship between the dimension of the critical times and the presence of dynamical vortices, demonstrating that only one-dimensional critical times arising from two-dimensional manifolds of zeros of the boundary partition function lead to dynamical vortices.

arXiv comment15 pages, 9 figures

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