Prethermalization and Persistent Order in the Absence of a Thermal Phase   Transition
  We numerically study the dynamics after a parameter quench in the one-dimensional transverse-field Ising model with long-range interactions ($\propto 1/r^\alpha$ with distance $r$), for finite chains and also directly in the thermodynamic limit. In nonequilibrium, i.e., before the system settles into a thermal state, we find a long-lived regime that is characterized by a prethermal value of the magnetization, which in general differs from its thermal value. We find that the ferromagnetic phase is stabilized dynamically: as a function of the quench parameter, the prethermal magnetization shows a transition between a symmetry-broken and a symmetric phase, even for those values of $\alpha$ for which no finite-temperature transition occurs in equilibrium. The dynamical critical point is shifted with respect to the equilibrium one, and the shift is found to depend on $\alpha$ as well as on the quench parameters. 
Jad C. Halimeh, Valentin Zauner-Stauber, Ian P. McCulloch, In\'es de   Vega, Ulrich Schollw\"ock, and Michael Kastner
cond-mat.quant-gas cond-mat.str-el quant-ph