Localization Transition for Interacting Quantum Particles in Colored-Noise Disorder

This paper investigates the localization transition of interacting particles in one-dimensional correlated disorder with vanishing backward scattering, using renormalization group methods and numerical simulations to demonstrate that the transition point shifts to the non-interacting limit and that the localization length scaling deviates from conventional behavior.

Giacomo Morpurgo, Laurent Sanchez-Palencia, Thierry Giamarchi2026-03-06🔬 physics

Thermodynamic Phase Transitions in Finite Su-Schrieffer-Heeger Chains: Metastability and Heat Capacity Anomalies

This study investigates the thermodynamic properties of finite Su-Schrieffer-Heeger chains, revealing a distinct metastable phase marked by heat capacity anomalies that emerges from hopping asymmetry and finite-size effects, thereby uncovering a rich bulk phase structure separate from topological boundary-driven transitions.

Carlos Magno da Conceição, Julio César Pérez-Pedraza, Alfredo Raya + 1 more2026-03-06🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Floquet dynamical chiral spin liquid at finite frequency

This paper demonstrates that a Dynamical Chiral Spin Liquid (DCSL) with Z2 topological order can be stabilized at finite driving frequencies on a square lattice, where the high-frequency Magnus expansion fails, by showing that the system remains in a stationary regime characterized by specific Floquet quasi-energy features and a tensor network representation with Z2 gauge symmetry, until a critical frequency is reached where heating and chaotic behavior ensue.

Didier Poilblanc, Matthieu Mambrini, Nathan Goldman2026-03-06⚛️ quant-ph

An Approach to Probing Particles and Quasi-particles in the Condensed Bose-Hubbard Model

This paper investigates how the parameters of phase contrast imaging in cold atom systems influence both the observation and the backaction on a Bose-Einstein condensate array, revealing regimes where the measurement selectively probes bare particles or quasiparticles while offering control over measurement-induced quasiparticle creation and diffusion.

Huy Nguyen, Yu-Xin Wang, Jacob M. Taylor2026-03-06⚛️ quant-ph

Driven-Dissipative Landau Polaritons: Two Highly Nonlinearly-Coupled Quantum Harmonic Oscillators

This paper demonstrates that a driven-dissipative system coupling the Landau levels of a charge-neutral particle in a synthetic gauge potential to a quantized optical cavity can be effectively modeled as two highly nonlinearly coupled quantum harmonic oscillators, giving rise to hybrid "Landau polaritons" with unique entanglement, squeezing, and diverse nonequilibrium dynamics.

Farokh Mivehvar2026-03-06⚛️ quant-ph

Universality in driven open quantum matter

This review surveys universality in driven open quantum matter, employing a Lindblad-Keldysh field theory framework to discuss principles distinguishing equilibrium from nonequilibrium stationary states and categorizing universal phenomena into paradigmatic nonequilibrium realizations, novel nonequilibrium universality, and genuinely quantum nonequilibrium effects.

Lukas M. Sieberer, Michael Buchhold, Jamir Marino, Sebastian Diehl2026-03-06⚛️ quant-ph

Dynamical quantum phase transitions through the lens of mode dynamics

This paper establishes that dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs) in generic quadratic fermionic systems are fundamentally characterized by the restoration of spin-flip symmetry in specific zero-energy dynamical critical modes, providing a unified framework that explains the necessary but insufficient conditions for DQPTs and their relationship to ground-state quantum phase transitions.

Akash Mitra, Shashi C. L. Srivastava2026-03-06⚛️ quant-ph

Chiral and pair superfluidity in triangular ladder produced by state-dependent Kronig-Penney lattice

This paper proposes a spin-dependent Kronig-Penney lattice realization of a triangular ladder for ultracold atoms that, through controllable pair hopping and geometric frustration, gives rise to robust pair superfluid and chiral superfluid phases as confirmed by density matrix renormalization group calculations and XXZ spin model mapping.

Domantas Burba, Giedrius Žlabys, Dzmitry Viarbitski, Thomas Busch, Gediminas Juzeli\=unas2026-03-06⚛️ quant-ph

Markovian quantum master equations are exponentially accurate in the weak coupling regime

The paper demonstrates that for open quantum systems coupled to Gaussian environments, the evolution can be described by a Markovian quantum master equation with an error that decreases exponentially with the inverse system-bath coupling strength, achieved through a generalized Born-Markov approximation that can be iterated to arbitrarily high orders.

Johannes Agerskov, Frederik Nathan2026-03-06⚛️ quant-ph

Impurity Self-Trapping in Lattice Bose systems

Using sign-problem-free quantum Monte Carlo simulations, this study maps the global phase diagram of a mobile impurity in a two-dimensional Bose-Hubbard model to reveal two distinct self-trapping mechanisms: an interaction-driven crossover in the superfluid phase characterized by impurity winding number collapse, and a compressibility-controlled localization in the Mott insulator phase driven by bath stiffness loss and defect quantization.

Chao Zhang2026-03-05🔬 physics

Efficient shortcuts-to-adiabaticity for loading an ultracold Fermi gas into higher orbital bands of one-dimensional optical lattice

This paper proposes and theoretically validates an efficient experimental scheme using multiparameter global optimization and lattice phase adjustment to load ultracold Fermi gases with broad momentum distributions into higher orbital bands of one-dimensional optical lattices, while identifying multiple quasi-momentum state occupancy as the primary factor limiting loading efficiency.

Hang Yu, Haoyi Zhang, Bolong Jiao + 4 more2026-03-05🔬 physics

Dynamical Behaviour of Density Correlations Across the Chaotic Phase for Interacting Bosons

This study reveals that while the onset of chaos in the one-dimensional Bose-Hubbard model induces a sub-ballistic regime in the correlation transport distance due to long-time tails and front amplitude decay, the correlation front itself maintains ballistic propagation across all interaction strengths, offering a more nuanced understanding of correlation dynamics beyond simple light-cone models.

Óscar Dueñas, Alberto Rodríguez2026-03-05⚛️ quant-ph