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Universal Dynamic Scaling of 2D Quantum Ising Transition on the Fuzzy Sphere

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2026-07-20 v1 Statistical Mechanics Quantum Physics

Abstract

We revisit the problem of \textit{real-time} quantum dynamics of the paradigmatic two dimensional transverse-field Ising model using the recently developed fuzzy sphere regularization scheme. By linearly ramping the transverse field from the paramagnetic phase to criticality, we study the finite-time scaling behavior of the squared order parameter mz2\langle m_z^2 \rangle, the excitation energy density QQ, and the two-point correlation function of mzm_z. We establish numerically that, at intermediate quench rate, mz2\langle m_z^2 \rangle follows the conventional Kibble-Zurek prediction set by the critical exponents of the 33D Ising universality class, and the correlation function exhibits the expected exponential decay whose correlation length can be used to estimate the non-universal scaling coefficient in the freeze-out time/length. In contrast, the excitation energy density QQ does not reach the same scaling regime at available system sizes due to large effective finite-size gap from symmetry-enforced level sparsity in the energy spectrum. At slow quench rates the universal quasi-adiabatic scaling for both mz2\langle m_z^2 \rangle and QQ is recovered. Since the fuzzy sphere construction can realize not only the Ising conformal field theory (CFT), but a broad family of (2+1)d(2+1)d CFTs, our results establish a route to the real-time critical dynamics of strongly coupled CFTs that are otherwise computationally challenging to study.

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@article{arxiv.2607.18028,
  title  = {Universal Dynamic Scaling of 2D Quantum Ising Transition on the Fuzzy Sphere},
  author = {Meng Zeng and Shuai Yin and Roderich Moessner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.18028},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

4.5 pages with 4 figures in main text + 1.5 pages of appendix