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We investigate the formation of topological defects in the course of a dynamical phase transition with different boundary conditions in a ring from AdS/CFT correspondence. According to the Kibble-Zurek mechanism, quenching the system across…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-25 Zhi-Hong Li , Han-Qing Shi , Hai-Qing Zhang

Formation and evolution of topological defects in course of non-equilibrium symmetry breaking phase transitions is of wide interest in many areas of physics, from cosmology through condensed matter to low temperature physics. Its study in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-17 Hua-Bi Zeng , Chuan-Yin Xia , Hai-Qing Zhang

We studied the dynamics of the order parameter and the winding numbers $W$ formation of a quenched normal-to-superconductor state phase transition in a finite size holographic superconducting ring. There is a critical circumference…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-30 Chuan-Yin Xia , Hua-Bi Zeng

The formation of topological defects during continuous second-order phase transitions is well described by the Kibble-Zurek mechanism (KZM). However, when the spontaneously broken symmetry is only approximate, such transitions become smooth…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-06 Peng Yang , Chuan-Yin Xia , Sebastian Grieninger , Hua-Bi Zeng , Matteo Baggioli

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

Using a simple analytic approach, we study the universal properties of second-order phase transition in holographic superconductor models. We explore a general model in arbitrary dimensions in which the condensation occurs via the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-11-03 Chiang-Mei Chen , Ming-Fan Wu

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

The spontaneous transformations associated with symmetry-breaking phase transitions generate domain structures and defects that may be topological in nature. The formation of these defects can be described according to the Kibble-Zurek…

We introduce a simple generalization of the basic holographic superconductor model in which the spontaneous breaking of a global U(1) symmetry occurs via the Stueckelberg mechanism. This more general setting allows tuning features such as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-05-12 Sebastian Franco , Antonio Garcia-Garcia , Diego Rodriguez-Gomez

Using holography, we study the universal scaling laws governing the coarsening dynamics of strongly coupled domain walls. Specifically, we studied the universal dependence of the length of the domain wall interfaces on the quench rate. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-01-29 Tian-Chi Ma , Han-Qing Shi , Hai-Qing Zhang , Adolfo del Campo

In this study, we have analytically considered a dislocation in three-dimensional Weyl semimetal and its holographic model. A quantum singularity that originated in the dislocation creates a defect in momentum space. This defect causes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-10 Izumi Tanaka

Traversing a continuous phase transition at a finite rate leads to the breakdown of adiabatic dynamics and the formation of topological defects, as predicted by the celebrated Kibble-Zurek mechanism (KZM). We investigate universal…

We explore the phase structure for defect theories in full generality using the gauge/gravity correspondence. On the gravity side, the systems are constructed by introducing M (probe) D(p+4-2k)-branes in a background generated by N…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-03 Paolo Benincasa

Holographic duality is a powerful tool to investigate the far-from equilibrium dynamics of superfluids and other phases of quantum matter. For technical reasons it is usually assumed that, after a quench, the far-from equilibrium fields are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 Antonio M. García-García , Hua Bi Zeng , Hai Qing Zhang

We study the dynamic after a smooth quench across a continuous transition from the disordered phase to the ordered phase. Based on scaling ideas, linear response and the spectrum of unstable modes, we develop a theoretical framework, valid…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-24 Paul M. Chesler , Antonio M. Garcia-Garcia , Hong Liu

In the nonadiabatic dynamics across a quantum phase transition, the Kibble-Zurek mechanism predicts that the formation of topological defects is suppressed as a universal power law with the quench time. In inhomogeneous systems, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-05 F. J. Gómez-Ruiz , A. del Campo

When a quantum phase transition is crossed within a finite time, critical slowing down disrupts adiabatic dynamics, resulting in the formation of topological defects. The average density of these defects scales with the quench rate,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-12 Oriel Kiss , Daniil Teplitskiy , Michele Grossi , Antonio Mandarino

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

In the course of a non-equilibrium continuous phase transition, the dynamics ceases to be adiabatic in the vicinity of the critical point as a result of the critical slowing down (the divergence of the relaxation time in the neighborhood of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-06-03 Adolfo del Campo , Wojciech H. Zurek

The Kibble-Zurek mechanism describes the formation of topological defects during spontaneous symmetry breaking for quite different systems. Shortly after the big bang, the isotropy of the Higgs-field is broken during the expansion and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-09-17 Patrick Dillmann , Georg Maret , Peter Keim
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