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arXiv:2510.13970 · Physical Review Letters

Temporal Entanglement Transitions in the Periodically Driven Ising Chain

Karun Gadge, Abhinav Prem, Rishabh Jha

Published Feb 23, 2026• 0 citations
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Abstract

Periodically driven quantum systems can host nonequilibrium phenomena without static analogs, including in their entanglement dynamics. Here, we discover temporal entanglement transitions (TETs) in a Floquet spin chain, which correspond to a quantum phase transition in the spectrum of the entanglement Hamiltonian and are signaled by dynamical spontaneous symmetry breaking. We identify the symmetry principles underlying these transitions: they appear when the driven Hamiltonian preserves global symmetry (here, Z_{2}), the initial state respects this symmetry, and the reduced density matrix carries weight in both subsystem-parity sectors, with TETs occurring precisely when the sector weights become equal (given the previous two conditions are also satisfied). Intriguingly, we find these transitions across a broad range of driving frequencies (from adiabatic to high-frequency regime) and independent of drive details, where they manifest as periodic, sharp entanglement spectrum reorganizations marked by the Schmidt-gap closure, a vanishing entanglement echo, and symmetry-quantum-number flips, while remaining invisible to conventional local observables. At high frequencies, the entanglement Hamiltonian acquires an intrinsic timescale decoupled from the drive period, rendering the transitions genuine steady-state features. Finite-size scaling reveals universal critical behavior with correlation-length exponent ν=1, matching equilibrium Ising universality despite its emergence from purely dynamical mechanisms decoupled from static criticality. Our Letter establishes TETs as novel features in Floquet quantum matter.

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10.1103/cxq7-q9pd

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