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Universality and scaling are fundamental concepts in equilibrium continuous phase transitions. Here, we unveil a unique and universal scaling behavior of the critical time in slowly driven dynamical quantum phase transition. Going beyond…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-09-26 Xiang Zhang , Liangdong Hu , Fuxiang Li

Out-of-time-order correlators (OTOCs) have proven to be a useful tool for studying thermalisation in quantum systems. In particular, the exponential growth of OTOCS, or scrambling, is sometimes taken as an indicator of chaos in quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-09 R. A. Kidd , A. Safavi-Naini , J. F. Corney

The out-of-time-order correlators (OTOCs) is used to study the quantum phase transitions (QPTs) between the normal phase and the superradiant phase in the Rabi and few-body Dicke models with large frequency ratio of theatomic level…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-18 Zheng-Hang Sun , Jia-Qi Cai , Qi-Cheng Tang , Yong Hu , Heng Fan

When a system is driven across a quantum critical point at a constant rate its evolution must become non-adiabatic as the relaxation time $\tau$ diverges at the critical point. According to the Kibble-Zurek mechanism (KZM), the emerging…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-02-22 Anna Francuz , Jacek Dziarmaga , Bartlomiej Gardas , Wojciech H. Zurek

We consider magnetic friction between two systems of $q$-state Potts spins which are moving along their boundaries with a relative constant velocity $v$. Due to the interaction between the surface spins there is a permanent energy flow and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-04-15 Ferenc Igloi , Michel Pleimling , Loic Turban

We study the effects of frozen boundaries in a Monte Carlo simulation near a first order phase transition. Recent theoretical analysis of the dynamics of first order phase transitions has enabled to state the scaling laws governing the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Baig , R. Villanova

The dynamics of many-body systems spanning condensed matter, cosmology, and beyond is hypothesized to be universal when the systems cross continuous phase transitions. The universal dynamics is expected to satisfy a scaling symmetry of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-11-15 Logan W. Clark , Lei Feng , Cheng Chin

We investigate both numerically and analytically the dynamics of out-of-time-order correlators (OTOCs) in a non-Hermitian kicked rotor model, addressing the scaling laws of the time dependence of OTOCs at the transition to the spontaneous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-14 Wen-Lei Zhao , Ru-Ru Wang , Han Ke , Jie Liu

Equilibrium and out-of-equilibrium transitions of an off-lattice protein model have been identified and studied. In particular, the out-of-equilibrium dynamics of the protein undergoing mechanical unfolding is investigated, and by using a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-07-14 A. Imparato , S. Luccioli , A. Torcini

The nonequilibrium dynamic phase transition, in the kinetic Ising model in presence of an oscillating magnetic field, has been studied by Monte Carlo simulation. The fluctuation of dynamic order parameter has been studied as a function of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 Muktish Acharyya

In this paper we address the question how the Kibble-Zurek mechanism, which describes the formation of topological defects in quantum systems subjected to a quench across a critical point, is generalized to the same scenario but for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-06 Patrik Hedvall , Jonas Larson

We apply a generalized Kibble-Zurek out-of-equilibrium scaling ansatz to simulated annealing when approaching the spin-glass transition at temperature $T=0$ of the two-dimensional Ising model with random $J= \pm 1$ couplings. Analyzing the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-05-31 Shanon J. Rubin , Na Xu , Anders W. Sandvik

Complex interactions leading to phase transitions continue to hold a due interest in the scientific community. We charactersize a phase transition in a coupled oscillators model where interactions are not local in nature. At a first order…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-08-26 Ayushi suman , Sarika Jalan

The non equilibrium relaxational dynamics of the solid on solid model on a disordered substrate and the Sine Gordon model with random phase shifts is studied numerically. Close to the super-roughening temperature $T_g$ our results for the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 Gregory Schehr , Heiko Rieger

Critical points with emergent symmetry exhibit intriguing scaling properties induced by two divergent length scales, attracting extensive investigations recently. We study the driven critical dynamics in a three-dimensional $q$-state clock…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-13 Yu-Rong Shu , Li-Ying Yang , Shuai Yin

Nonequilibrium many-body physics is one of the core problems in modern physics, while the dynamical scaling from a gapless phase to the critical point is a most important challenge with very few knowledge so far. In the driven dynamics with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-17 Zhe Wang , Chengxiang Ding , Dongxu Liu , Fuxiang Li , Zheng Yan , Shuai Yin

Hysteresis and metastable states are typical features associated with ergodicity breaking in the first-order phase transition. We explore the scaling relations of nonequilibrium thermodynamics in finite-time first-order phase transitions.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-20 Yu-Xin Wu , Jin-Fu Chen , H. T. Quan

The interactions between a group of components are commonly studied in several areas of science (social science, biology, material science, complex dynamical systems, among others) using the methods of thermodynamics and statistical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-07-28 Constanza Farías , Sergio Davis

Phase transitions, as one of the most intriguing phenomena in nature, are divided into first-order phase transitions (FOPTs) and continuous ones in current classification. While the latter shows striking phenomena of scaling and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-21 Yuxiang Zhang , Fan Zhong

We analyze the quantum phase transitions taking place in a one-dimensional transverse field Ising model with long-range couplings that decay algebraically with distance. We are interested in the Kibble-Zurek universal scaling laws emerging…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-25 Ricardo Puebla , Oliver Marty , Martin B. Plenio
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