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When the complete understanding of a complex system is not available, as, e.g., for systems considered in the real-world, we need a top-down approach to complexity. In this approach one may start with the desire to understand general…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-05-22 Joachim Peinke , Mohammad Reza Rahimi Tabar , Matthias Wächter

The formation of topological defects after a symmetry-breaking phase transition is an overarching phenomenon that encodes rich information about the underlying dynamics. Kibble-Zurek mechanism (KZM), which describes these nonequilibrium…

Dynamics of complex systems is often hierarchically organized on different time scales. To understand the physics of such hierarchy, here Brownian motion of a particle moving through a fluctuating medium with slowly varying temperature is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-02-14 Sumiyoshi Abe

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

One of the major theoretical methods in understanding polymer translocation through a nanopore is the Fokker-Planck formalism based on the assumption of quasi-equilibrium of polymer conformations. The criterion for applicability of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-02-14 Harshwardhan H. Katkar , Murugappan Muthukumar

The dynamical phase transition of a system with two coexisting competing order parameters is studied using the time-dependent-Ginzburg-Landau framework. The dynamics are induced by parameters capturing the physics of driving the system with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-19 Yasamin Masoumi Sefidkhani , Alberto de la Torre , Gregory A. Fiete

We study a one-dimensional lattice model with site-dependent nearest-neighbor hopping amplitudes that follow a power-law profile. The hopping variation is controlled by a grading exponent, $|alpha|$, which serves as the tuning parameter of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-04-20 Argha Debnath , Ayan Sahoo , Debraj Rakshit

In this article we try to bridge the gap between the quantum dynamical semigroup and Wigner function approaches to quantum open systems. In particular we study stationary states and the long time asymptotics for the quantum Fokker-Planck…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-10-22 Anton Arnold , Franco Fagnola , Lukas Neumann

We numerically investigate nucleation processes in the transient dynamics of the two-dimensional complex Ginzburg-Landau equation towards its "frozen" state with quasi-stationary spiral structures. We study the transition kinetics from…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-11-27 Weigang Liu , Uwe C. Täuber

We present a Fokker-Planck description of supercooled colloidal systems exhibiting slow relaxation dynamics. By assuming the existence of a local quasi-equilibrium state during the relaxation of the system, we derive a non-Markovian…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-24 J. M. Rubi , I. Santamaria-Holek , A. Perez-Madrid

When a system is driven across a continuous phase transition, the density of topological defects demonstrates a power-law scaling behavior versus the quenching rate, as predicted by Kibble-Zurek mechanism. In this study, we generalized this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-27 Lingzi Huang , Menghua Deng , Chen Sun , Fuxiang Li

We describe a new approach for modeling the transport of high energy particles accelerated during flares from the acceleration region in the solar corona until their eventual thermalization in the flare footpoint. Our technique numerically…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-14 Joel C. Allred , Meriem Alaoui , Adam F. Kowalski , Graham S. Kerr

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

As a simplified description of the non-equilibrium dynamics of buckled dimers on the Si(001) surface, we consider the anisotropic 2D Ising model and study the freezing of spatial correlations during a cooling quench across the critical…

This contribution deals with $\mathrm L^2$ hypocoercivity methods for kinetic Fokker-Planck equations with integrable local equilibria and a \emph{factorisation} property that relates the Fokker-Planck and the transport operators. Rates of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-10 Emeric Bouin , Jean Dolbeault , Luca Ziviani

We consider the overdamped dynamics of a paradigmatic long-range system of particles residing on the sites of a one-dimensional lattice, in the presence of thermal noise. The internal degree of freedom of each particle is a periodic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-12-03 Shamik Gupta , Alessandro Campa , Stefano Ruffo

If a system is driven at finite-rate through a phase transition by varying an intensive parameter, the order parameter shatters into finite domains. The Kibble-Zurek mechanism predicts the typical size of these domains, which are governed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-11-20 Sebastian Deffner

We extend the theory of symmetry breaking dynamics in non-equilibrium second order phase transitions known as the Kibble-Zurek mechanism (KZM) to transitions where the change of phase occurs not in time, but in space. This can be due to a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-07-28 Wojciech H. Zurek , Uwe Dorner

Taking the quantum Kitaev chain as an example, we have studied the universal dynamical behaviors resulting from quantum criticality under the condition of environmental temperature quench. Our findings reveal that when the quantum parameter…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Chengxiang Ding , Long Zhang

The Kolmogorov-Zakharov stationary states for weak wave turbulence involve solving a leading-order kinetic equation. Recent calculations of higher-order corrections to this kinetic equation using the Martin-Siggia-Rose path integral are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-15 Daniel Schubring