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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

We describe a scheme for finding quantum critical points based on studies of a non-equilibrium susceptibility during finite-rate quenches taking the system from one phase to another. We assume that two such quenches are performed in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-12 Michał Białończyk , Bogdan Damski

We employ quench dynamics as an effective tool to probe different universality classes of topological phase transitions. Specifically, we study a model encompassing both Dirac-like and nodal loop criticalities. Examining the Kibble-Zurek…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-12-06 Karin Sim , R. Chitra , Paolo Molignini

Symmetry-breaking quantum phase transitions lead to the production of topological defects or domain walls in a wide range of physical systems. In second-order transitions, these exhibit universal scaling laws described by the Kibble-Zurek…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-04-15 Matthew T. Wheeler , Hayder Salman , Magnus O. Borgh

It is well known that the dynamics of a quantum system is always non-adiabatic in passage through a quantum critical point and the defect density in the final state following a quench shows a power-law scaling with the rate of quenching.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 Debanjan Chowdhury , Uma Divakaran , Amit Dutta

We consider the time-dependent transverse field Ising chain with time-periodic perturbations. Without perturbations, this model is one of the famous models that obeys the scaling in the adiabatic limit predicted by the quantum Kibble-Zurek…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-09 Takayuki Suzuki , Kaito Iwamura

Deconfined quantum criticality (DQC) arises from fractionalization of quasi-particles and leads to fascinating behaviors beyond the Landau-Ginzburg-Wilson description of phase transitions. Here, we study the critical dynamics when driving a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-04-15 Yu-Rong Shu , Shao-Kai Jian , Anders W. Sandvik , Shuai Yin

A quantum phase transition may occur in the ground state of a system at zero temperature when a controlling field or interaction is varied. The resulting quantum fluctuations which trigger the transition produce scaling behavior of various…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-05-14 Abolfazl Bayat , Henrik Johannesson , Sougato Bose , Pasquale Sodano

The emerging field of quantum thermodynamics is contributing important results and insights into archetypal many-body problems, including quantum phase transitions. Still, the question whether out-of-equilibrium quantities, such as…

We investigate quantum quenches starting from a critical point and experimentally probe the associated defect statistics using a trapped-ion quantum simulator of the transverse-field Ising model. The cumulants of the defect number…

The Kibble-Zurek mechanism (KZM) captures the essential physics of nonequilibrium quantum phase transitions with symmetry breaking. KZM predicts a universal scaling power law for the defect density which is fully determined by the system's…

An equally spaced linear chain of ions provides a test-bed for studying the defect formation in a finite size 1D system. In particular, defect formation related to topological phase transition from a linear configuration to a zig-zag one is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-08-26 J. Pedregosa-Gutierrez , M. Mukherjee

We analyse the production of defects during the dynamical crossing of a mean-field phase transition with a real order parameter. When the parameter that brings the system across the critical point changes in time according to a power-law…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-04-02 Matthew J. M. Power , Gabriele De Chiara

We study finite-time driving across second-order dissipative quantum phase transitions described by Lindblad dynamics. We show that the nonadiabatic entropy production, which quantifies deviations from the instantaneous nonequilibrium…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-05 Laetitia P. Bettmann , Artur M. Lacerda , Mark T. Mitchison , John Goold

Global quantum quench with a finite quench rate which crosses critical points is known to lead to universal scaling of correlation functions as functions of the quench rate. In this work, we explore scaling properties of the entanglement…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 Pawel Caputa , Sumit R. Das , Masahiro Nozaki , Akio Tomiya

Quantum phase transitions are characterised by the universal scaling laws in the critical region surrounding the transitions. This universality is also manifested in the critical real-time dynamics through the quantum Kibble-Zurek…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Jose Soto Garcia , Natalia Chepiga

We investigate the quench dynamics of an open quantum system involving a quantum phase transition. In the isolated case, the quench dynamics involving the phase transition exhibits a number of scaling relations with the quench rate as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-15 Ricardo Puebla , Andrea Smirne , Susana F. Huelga , Martin B. Plenio

We consider a one-dimensional classical ferromagnetic Ising model when it is quenched from a low temperature to zero temperature in finite time using Glauber or Kawasaki dynamics. Most of the previous work on finite-time quenches assume…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-01-10 Lakshita Jindal , Kavita Jain

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

At continuous phase transitions, quantum many-body systems exhibit scale-invariance and complex, emergent universal behavior. Most strikingly, at a quantum critical point, correlations decay as a power law, with exponents determined by a…