Exact metastability in a class of driven-dissipative quantum many-body systems
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Quantum Physics arXiv:2606.07736 (quant-ph) [Submitted on 5 Jun 2026] Title:Exact metastability in a class of driven-dissipative quantum many-body systems Authors:David D. Noachtar, Aashish A. Clerk View a PDF of the paper titled Exact metastability in a class of driven-dissipative quantum many-body systems, by David D. Noachtar and Aashish A. Clerk View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:Metastability in many-body quantum systems and its associated exponentially-long timescales have been the subject of considerable recent interest. Here, we focus on a class of driven-dissipative many-body open quantum systems described by a Lindbladian having hidden time-reversal symmetry (a form of quantum detailed balance). Examples include boundary-driven interacting spin chains, bosonic lattice models and driven-dissipative collective spin models. We suggest that for such systems, slow timescales in the vicinity of a dissipative first-order phase transition can be analytically predicted using a special purification of the non-equilibrium steady state. We show the accuracy of our conjecture through detailed studies of a dissipative transverse-field Ising model with collective and local decay, and a driven-dissipative nonlinear cavity model. Our results allow quantitative insights into metastability and slow dynamics for a range of systems, including cases where semiclassical or path-integral instanton approaches are intractable. Comments: Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech) Cite as: arXiv:2606.07736 [quant-ph] (or arXiv:2606.07736v1 [quant-ph] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2606.07736 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) Submission history From: David D. Noachtar [view email] [v1] Fri, 5 Jun 2026 18:00:01 UTC (4,202 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View a PDF of the paper titled Exact metastability in a class of driven-dissipative quantum many-body systems, by David D. Noachtar and Aashish A. ClerkView PDFHTML (experimental)TeX Source view license Current browse context: quant-ph new | recent | 2026-06 Change to browse by: cond-mat cond-mat.stat-mech References & Citations INSPIRE HEP NASA ADSGoogle Scholar Semantic Scholar export BibTeX citation Loading... BibTeX formatted citation × loading... Data provided by: Bookmark Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer (What is the Explorer?) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers (What is Connected Papers?) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps (What is Litmaps?) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations (What are Smart Citations?) Code, Data, Media Code, Data and Media Associated with this Article alphaXiv Toggle alphaXiv (What is alphaXiv?) Links to Code Toggle CatalyzeX Code Finder for Papers (What is CatalyzeX?) DagsHub Toggle DagsHub (What is DagsHub?) GotitPub Toggle Gotit.pub (What is GotitPub?) Huggingface Toggle Hugging Face (What is Huggingface?) ScienceCast Toggle ScienceCast (What is ScienceCast?) Demos Demos Replicate Toggle Replicate (What is Replicate?) Spaces Toggle Hugging Face Spaces (What is Spaces?) Spaces Toggle TXYZ.AI (What is TXYZ.AI?) Related Papers Recommenders and Search Tools Link to Influence Flower Influence Flower (What are Influence Flowers?) Core recommender toggle CORE Recommender (What is CORE?) Author Venue Institution Topic About arXivLabs arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them. Have an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv's community? Learn more about arXivLabs. Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax (What is MathJax?)