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Traversing a continuous phase transition at a finite rate leads to the breakdown of adiabatic dynamics and the formation of topological defects, as predicted by the celebrated Kibble-Zurek mechanism (KZM). We investigate universal…

The Kibble-Zurek mechanism provides a description of the topological structure occurring in the symmetry breaking phase transitions, which may manifest as the cosmological strings in the early universe or vortex lines in the superfulid. A…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-12 Cheng Zhou , Li Wang , Tao Tu , Hai-Ou Li , Guang-Can Guo , Hong-Wen Jiang , Guo-Ping Guo

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

Near a critical point, the equilibrium relaxation time of a system diverges and any change of control/thermodynamic parameters leads to non-equilibrium behavior. The Kibble-Zurek problem is to determine the dynamical evolution of the system…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-09-20 Anushya Chandran , Amir Erez , Steven S. Gubser , S. L. Sondhi

The superfluid phase transition dynamics and associated spontaneous vortex formation with the crossing of the critical temperature in a disk geometry is studied in the framework of the $AdS/CFT$ correspondence by solving the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-06-17 Chuan-Yin Xia , Hua-Bi Zeng , András Grabarits , Adolfo del Campo

We examine the formation and critical dynamics of topological defects via Kibble-Zurek mechanism in a (2+1)-dimensional quantum critical point, which is conjectured to dual to a Lifshitz geometry. Quantized magnetic fluxoids are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-24 Zhi-Hong Li , Chuan-Yin Xia , Hua-Bi Zeng , Hai-Qing Zhang

We study the driven dynamics across the critical points of the Yang-Lee edge singularities (YLESes) in a finite-size quantum Ising chain with an imaginary symmetry-breaking field. In contrast to the conventional classical or quantum phase…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-02-14 Shuai Yin , Guang-Yao Huang , Chung-Yu Lo , Pochung Chen

Using holography, we study the universal scaling laws governing the coarsening dynamics of strongly coupled domain walls. Specifically, we studied the universal dependence of the length of the domain wall interfaces on the quench rate. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-01-29 Tian-Chi Ma , Han-Qing Shi , Hai-Qing Zhang , Adolfo del Campo

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…

According to the Kibble-Zurek mechanism (KZM), the density of topological defects created during a second-order phase transition is determined by the correlation length at the freeze-out time. This suggests that the final configuration of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-29 Fumika Suzuki , Ying Wai Li , Wojciech H. Zurek

The Kibble-Zurek mechanism predicts the formation of topological defects and other excitations that quantify how much a quantum system driven across a quantum critical point fails to be adiabatic. We point out that, thanks to the divergent…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-10-02 Marek M. Rams , Jacek Dziarmaga , Wojciech H. Zurek

The Kibble-Zurek mechanism (KZM) predicts the density of topological defects produced in the dynamical processes of phase transitions in systems ranging from cosmology to condensed matter and quantum materials. The similarity between KZM…

We investigate the dissipative quench dynamics in a family of two-band fermionic systems by linearly ramping the staggered on-site energy. In the Lindblad formalism, we present an analytical solution in the presence of uniform loss or loss…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-07 Han-Chuan Kou , Zhi-Han Zhang , Peng Li

We study the dynamics of systems quenched through topological quantum phase transitions and investigate the behavior of the bulk and edge excitations with various quench rates. Specifically, we consider the Haldane model and checkerboard…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-07-04 Shiuan-Fan Liou , Kun Yang

We study the dynamic after a smooth quench across a continuous transition from the disordered phase to the ordered phase. Based on scaling ideas, linear response and the spectrum of unstable modes, we develop a theoretical framework, valid…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-24 Paul M. Chesler , Antonio M. Garcia-Garcia , Hong Liu

We study the out-of-equilibrium Kibble-Zurek (KZ) dynamics in quantum Ising chains in a transverse field, driven by a time-dependent longitudinal field $h(t)=t/t_s$ ($t_s$ is the time scale of the protocol), across their first-order quantum…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-10 Andrea Pelissetto , Davide Rossini , Ettore Vicari

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 investigate the statistics of the work performed during a quench across a quantum phase transition using the adiabatic perturbation theory. It is shown that all the cumulants of work exhibit universal scaling behavior analogous to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-06 Zhaoyu Fei , Nahuel Freitas , Vasco Cavina , H. T. Quan , Massimiliano Esposito

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

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