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Kibble-Zurek mechanism (KZM) uses critical scaling to predict density of topological defects and other excitations created in second order phase transitions. We point out that simply inserting asymptotic critical exponents deduced from the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-09-01 Jacek Dziarmaga , Wojciech H. Zurek

State-of-the-art tensor networks are employed to simulate the Hamiltonian ramp in the analog-digital quantum simulation of the quantum phase transition to the quasi-long-range ordered phase of the two-dimensional square-lattice $XX$ model…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-13 Yintai Zhang , Francis A. Bayocboc , Jacek Dziarmaga

We argue that in a second order quantum phase transition driven by an inhomogeneous quench density of quasiparticle excitations is suppressed when velocity at which a critical point propagates across a system falls below a threshold…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Jacek Dziarmaga , Marek M. Rams

We explore the robustness of universal dynamical scaling behavior in a quantum system near criticality with respect to initialization in a large class of states with finite energy. By focusing on a homogeneous XY quantum spin chain in a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-20 Shusa Deng , Gerardo Ortiz , Lorenza Viola

We uncover an aspect of the Kibble--Zurek phenomenology, according to which the spectrum of critical exponents of a classical or quantum phase transition is revealed, by driving the system slowly in directions parallel to the phase…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-02-14 Steven Mathey , Sebastian Diehl

Geometric quantum speed limits quantify the trade-off between the rate with which quantum states can change and the resources that are expended during the evolution. Counterdiabatic driving is a unique tool from shortcuts to adiabaticity to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-29 Ricardo Puebla , Sebastian Deffner , Steve Campbell

The celebrated Kibble-Zurek mechanism (KZM) describes the scaling of physical quantities when external parameters sweep through a critical point. Boundaries are ubiquitous in real systems, and critical behaviors near the boundary have…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-15 Yu-Rong Shu , Shuai Yin

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 present a formulation for investigating quench dynamics across quantum phase transitions in the presence of decoherence. We formulate decoherent dynamics induced by continuous quantum non-demolition measurements of the instantaneous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-16 Wei-Ting Kuo , Daniel Arovas , Smitha Vishveshwara , Yi-Zhuang You

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 consider the finite-time quench dynamics in the quantum transverse field Ising model which exhibits a second order phase transition from a paramagnetic to a ferromagnetic phase, as the transverse magnetic field is decreased. These…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-08 Lakshita Jindal , Kavita Jain

Understanding the out-of-equilibrium dynamics of a closed quantum system driven across a quantum phase transition is an important problem with widespread implications for quantum state preparation and adiabatic algorithms. While the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-30 Rhine Samajdar , David A. Huse

The Kibble-Zurek mechanism (KZM) predicts that the average number of topological defects generated upon crossing a continuous or quantum phase transition obeys a universal scaling law with the quench time. Fluctuations in the defect number…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-06 Federico Balducci , Mathieu Beau , Jing Yang , Andrea Gambassi , Adolfo del Campo

The crossing of a continuous phase transition gives rise to the formation of topological defects described by the Kibble-Zurek mechanism (KZM) in the limit of slow quenches. The KZM predicts a universal power-law scaling of the defect…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-05-04 Hua-Bi Zeng , Chuan-Yin Xia , Adolfo del Campo

The formation of topological defects in second-order phase transitions can be investigated by solving partial differential equations for the evolution of the order parameter in space and time, such as the Langevin equation. We demonstrate…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-02 Fumika Suzuki , Wojciech H. Zurek

Universal scaling laws govern the density of topological defects generated while crossing an equilibrium continuous phase transition. The Kibble-Zurek mechanism (KZM) predicts the dependence on the quench time for slow quenches. By…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-12-07 Wei-can Yang , Makoto Tsubota , Adolfo del Campo , Hua-Bi Zeng

We report a new intermediate regime in the quench time, $\tau_{q}$, separating the usual validity of the Kibble-Zurek mechanism (KZM) and its breakdown for rapid quenches in open systems under finite quench protocols. It manifests in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-08-22 Roy D. Jara , Jayson G. Cosme

The conventional Kibble-Zurek (KZ) mechanism, describing driven dynamics across critical points based on the adiabatic-impulse scenario (AIS), have attracted broad attentions. However, the driven dynamics in tricritical point with two…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-20 Ting-Long Wang , Yi-Fan Jiang , Shuai Yin

Non-Hermitian physics provides an effective description of open and nonequilibrium systems and hosts many novel and intriguing phenomena such as exceptional points and non-Hermitian skin effect. Despite extensive theoretical and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-04 Menghua Deng , Wei Li , Kangyi Hu , Fuxiang Li

The Kibble-Zurek mechanism (KZM) captures the key physics in the non-equilibrium dynamics of second-order phase transitions, and accurately predict the density of the topological defects formed in this process. However, despite much effort,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-11 Xiao-Ye Xu , Yong-Jian Han , Kai Sun , Jin-Shi Xu , Jian-Shun Tang , Chuan-Feng Li , Guang-Can Guo