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We study the non-equilibrium dynamics due to slowly taking a quasiperiodic Hamiltonian across its quantum critical point. The special quasiperiodic Hamiltonian that we study here has two different types of critical lines belonging to two…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-04-23 Revathy B. S. , Uma Divakaran

We study the out-of-equilibrium dynamics of $p$-wave superconducting quantum wires with long-range interactions, when the chemical potential is linearly ramped across the topological phase transition. We show that the heat produced after…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-27 Nicolò Defenu , Giovanna Morigi , Luca Dell'Anna , Tilman Enss

When a system is driven across a second-order quantum phase transition, the number of defects which are produced scales with the speed of the variation of the tuning parameter according to a universal law described by the Kibble-Zurek…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-03-29 Gianluca Francica , Luca Dell'Anna

The Kibble mechanism plays a prominent role in the theory of the early Universe, as an explanation of the possible formation of cosmic strings. Zurek suggested the analogous effect in liquid helium under rapid cooling, and he conjectured -…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-23 José Armando Pérez-Loera , Wolfgang Bietenholz

Kibble-Zurek mechanism is widely known to appear in the transverse-field quantum Ising chain in the thermodynamic limit at zero temperature, having notorious characteristics, like the divergence of its relaxation time. In this work, I…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-03 Pierre Nazé

Within the framework of the Kibble-Zurek Mechanism, we investigate the universal behavior of the non-equilibrium critical fluctuations, using the Langevin dynamics of model A. With properly located typical time, length and angle scales,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-11-28 Shanjin Wu , Huichao Song

We analyze quantum systems under a broad class of protocols in which the temperature and a Hamiltonian control parameter are ramped simultaneously and, in general, in a nonlinear fashion toward a quantum critical point. Using an open-system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Johannes N. Kriel , Emma C. King , Michael Kastner

Kibble-Zurek (KZ) mechanism describes the scaling behavior when driving a system across a continuous symmetry-breaking transition. Previous studies have shown that the KZ-like scaling behavior also lies in the topological transitions in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-10-21 Huan Yuan , Jinyi Zhang , Shuai Chen , Xiaotian Nie

The Kibble-Zurek mechanism (KZM) predicts that when a system is driven through a continuous phase transition, the density of topological defects scales universally with the quench rate. Recent theoretical work [H.-B. Zeng \textit{et al.},…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-10 Xinxin Rao , Yang Liu , Mingshen Li , Teng Liu , Huabi Zeng , Le Luo

We investigate the nonequilibrium dynamics of quantum spin chains during a round-trip protocol that slowly drives the system across a quantum first-order transition. Out-of-equilibrium scaling behaviors \`a la Kibble-Zurek for the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-09-27 Francesco Tarantelli , Stefano Scopa

We study the quantum Ising model in the transverse inhomogeneous magnetic field. Such a system can be approached numerically through exact diagonalization and analytically through the renormalization group techniques. Basic insights into…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-11-22 Mateusz Łącki , Bogdan Damski

Exploiting the universality between the QCD critical point and the three dimensional Ising model, closed form expressions derived (arXiv:1506.00645 ) for non-equilibrium critical cumulants on the crossover side of the critical point reveal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-30 Swagato Mukherjee , Raju Venugopalan , Yi Yin

We numerically study the density of topological defects for a two-dimensional assembly of particles driven over quenched disorder as a function of quench rate through the nonequilibrium phase transition from a plastic disordered flowing…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-04-23 C. J. O. Reichhardt , A. del Campo , C. Reichhardt

Kibble-Zurek mechanism is a theory of defect formation in a non-equilibrium continuous phase transition. So far the theory has been successfully tested by numerical simulations and condensed matter experiments in a number of systems with…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Jacek Dziarmaga

We study a one-dimensional lattice model with site-dependent nearest-neighbor hopping amplitudes that follow a power-law profile. The hopping variation is controlled by a grading exponent, $|alpha|$, which serves as the tuning parameter of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-04-20 Argha Debnath , Ayan Sahoo , Debraj Rakshit

The Kibble-Zurek (KZ) mechanism describes the generations of topological defects when a system undergoes a second-order phase transition via quenches. We study the holographic KZ scaling using holographic superconductors. The scaling can be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-06-07 Makoto Natsuume , Takashi Okamura

We introduce a simple criterion for lattice models to predict quantitatively the crossover between the classical and the quantum scaling of the Kibble-Zurek mechanism, as the one observed in a quantum $\phi^4$-model on a 1D lattice [Phys.…

In the field of non-equilibrium phase transitions, the Kibble-Zurek mechanism (KZM) is undoubtedly an important discovery, pointing out that some universal scaling rules are applied to a wide range of physical systems from quantum to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-16 Wen Wei , Shanhua Zhu , Yi Xie , Baoquan Ou , Wei Wu , Pingxing Chen

The Kibble-Zurek mechanism describes the evolution of topological defect structures like domain walls, strings, and monopoles when a system is driven through a second order phase transition. The model is used on very different scales like…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-10-16 Sven Deutschländer , Patrick Dillmann , Georg Maret , Peter Keim

Simple causal arguments put forward by Kibble and Zurek suggest that the scaling behaviour of condensed matter at continuous transitions is related to the familiar universality classes of the systems at quasi-equilibrium. Although proposed…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-05-13 David J. Weir , Ray J. Rivers