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Universal spin-squeezing dynamical phase transitions across lattice geometries, dimensions, and microscopic couplings

Arman Duha and Thomas Bilitewski

Phys. Rev. A - Accepted 9 September, 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/py4q-klzp

Abstract

Recent work has identified a dynamical squeezing phase transition in power-law interacting bilayer XXZ spin models, separating a fully collective phase with Heisenberg-limited squeezing from a partially collective phase with universal critical scaling. Here we test and establish the universality of this transition along two qualitatively different microscopic axes: lattice geometry, by studying square, triangular, and honeycomb 2D bilayers as well as 1D ladders, and a symmetry-preserving rescaling λ of the interlayer couplings relative to the intralayer ones. Combining a Bogoliubov instability analysis with discrete truncated Wigner simulations, we find that the transition persists across all four lattice geometries and over a wide range of λ with critical exponents consistent within error, providing strong evidence for a genuine non-equilibrium universality class. The Bogoliubov theory recovers the previously identified scaling aZ*L in the long-range interacting regime α<d+2, and yields an analytical scaling aZ*L2/(αd) for the critical aspect ratio with system size for α>d+2, with α the power-law exponent in dimension d. This uncovers a previously unrecognized sub-linear regime for short-range interactions. By tuning λ we vary the interlayer coupling strength at fixed layer spacing, demonstrating that the dynamical transition can be driven purely through interaction engineering without modifying the underlying geometry. These findings provide a versatile route toward controlling entanglement generation in Rydberg-array, polar molecule, and trapped-ion platforms with applications in quantum sensing and simulation.

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