The authors argue their reported DQPTs concern a two-stage operational Loschmidt echo distinct from the Uhlmann-Bures return rate, so the comment's theorem does not apply and no contradiction exists.
Comment on: "Scaling and Universality at Noisy Quench Dynamical Quantum Phase Transitions"
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In Ref. [1], dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs) -- non-analyticities in the Loschmidt return rate at critical times -- are investigated in the presence of noise for a two-band model. The authors report that DQPTs persist even after averaging over the noise and they use their results to derive dynamical phase diagrams. The protocol used approximates the noise-averaged mixed state, obtained using a master equation, by a pure state, characterized by its excitation probability. In this comment we rigorously show that: (1) This approximation is exponentially poor in the thermodynamic limit. (2) When using the correct metric, the Loschmidt echo of two density matrices in any two-dimensional Hilbert space can become zero if and only if {\it both} density matrices are pure, ruling out DQPTs for non-zero noise. (3) An a posteriori reinterpretation of the results as an interferometric protocol is possible but such a protocol is unsuitable to investigate the effects of noise on DQPTs because it is inherently blind to decoherence. We also investigate alternative natural ways to average over noise realizations and show that in all of them DQPTs are smoothed out.
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The authors argue their reported DQPTs concern a two-stage operational Loschmidt echo distinct from the Uhlmann-Bures return rate, so the comment's theorem does not apply and no contradiction exists.