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The Kibble-Zurek scaling reveals the universal dynamics when a system is linearly ramped across a symmetry-breaking phase transition. However, in reality, inevitable finite-size effects or symmetrybreaking perturbations can often smear out…

The Kibble-Zurek (KZ) hypothesis identifies the relevant time scales in out-of-equilibrium dynamics of critical systems employing concepts valid at equilibrium: It predicts the scaling of the defect formation immediately after quenches…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-08 Pietro Silvi , Giovanna Morigi , Tommaso Calarco , Simone Montangero

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

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

When a classical system is driven through a continuous phase transition, its nonequilibrium response is universal and exhibits Kibble-Zurek scaling. We explore this dynamical scaling in the novel context of a three-dimensional topological…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-06-29 James Hamp , Anushya Chandran , Roderich Moessner , Claudio Castelnovo

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

Kibble-Zurek scaling is the scaling of the density of the topological defects formed via the Kibble-Zurek mechanism with respect to the rate at which a system is cooled across a continuous phase transition. Recently, the density of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-03-26 Fan Zhong

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 investigate an extension of the quantum Ising model in one spatial dimension including long-range $1 / r^{\alpha}$ interactions in its statics and dynamics with possible applications from heteronuclear polar molecules in optical lattices…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-09-15 Daniel Jaschke , Kenji Maeda , Joseph D. Whalen , Michael L. Wall , Lincoln D. Carr

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

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

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

Yang-Lee edge singularities (YLES) are the edges of the partition function zeros of an interacting spin model in the space of complex control parameters. They play an important role in understanding non-Hermitian phase transitions in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-29 Ruizhe Shen , Tianqi Chen , Mohammad Mujahid Aliyu , Fang Qin , Yin Zhong , Huanqian Loh , Ching Hua Lee

A description of the Kibble-Zurek mechanism with linear response theory has been done previously, but ad hoc hypotheses were used, like the use of the rate-dependent impulse window via the Zurek equation in the context of no driving in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-09 Pierre Nazé

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

Recently, the study of scaling behavior in Yang-Lee edge singularities (YLES) has attracted sustained attention. However, the scaling mechanism for the overlapping critical region between classical and quantum YLES remains unclear. In this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-06-03 Yue-Mei Sun , Wen-Jing Yu , Xin-Yu Wang , Liang-Jun Zhai

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

We revisit the Kibble-Zurek mechanism by analyzing the dynamics of phase ordering systems during an infinitely slow annealing across a second order phase transition. We elucidate the time and cooling rate dependence of the typical growing…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-05-29 Giulio Biroli , Leticia F. Cugliandolo , Alberto Sicilia

We experimentally probe the distribution of kink pairs resulting from driving a one-dimensional quantum Ising chain through the paramagnet-ferromagnet quantum phase transition, using a single trapped ion as a quantum simulator in momentum…

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