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We study the driven critical dynamics with an equilibrium initial state near a quantum critical point. In contrast to the original Kibble-Zurek mechanism, which describes the driven dynamics starting from an adiabatic stage that is far from…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-29 Shuai Yin , Chung-Yu Lo , Pochung Chen

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

Quantum physics can be extended into the complex domain by considering non-Hermitian Hamiltonians that are $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric. These exhibit exceptional points (EPs) where the eigenspectrum changes from purely real to purely imaginary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-23 Jia-Jia Wang , Yu-Hong He , Chang-Geng Liao , Rong-Xin Chen , Jacob A. Dunningham

The emergence of various types of degeneracies plays a crucial role in optimizing and engineering different physical phenomena in non-Hermitian physics. In our work, we focus on the derogatory Exceptional Points (EPs), which are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-22 Grigory A. Starkov , Sharareh Sayyad

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

Exceptional points in non-Hermitian quantum systems give rise to novel genuine quantum phenomena. Recent explorations of exceptional-point-induced quantum phase transitions have extended from discrete-variable to continuous-variable-encoded…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 Pei-Rong Han , Tian-Le Yang , Wen Ning , Hao-Long Zhang , Huifang Kang , Huiye Qiu , Zhen-Biao Yang

We theoretically investigate the emergence of non-hermitian physics at the heterojunction of a type-II Dirac semi-metal (DSM) and a dirty superconductor (DSC). The non-hermiticity is introduced in the DSM through the self-energy term…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-07 Sayan Jana , Debashree Chowdhury , Arijit Saha

Band degeneracies, ranging from Hermitian Dirac points to non-Hermitian exceptional points (EPs), play a central role in topological phase transitions. Beyond the topology of individual degeneracies, their mutual interactions yield richer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-07 Weijia Wang , Qicheng Zhang , Kun Zhang , Shuaishuai Tong , Chunyin Qiu

Open systems with gain and loss, described by non-trace-preserving, non-Hermitian Hamiltonians, have been a subject of intense research recently. The effect of exceptional-point degeneracies on the dynamics of classical systems has been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-01 M. Naghiloo , M. Abbasi , Yogesh N. Joglekar , K. W. Murch

In this paper we study the driven critical dynamics in the three-state quantum chiral clock model. This is motivated by a recent experiment, which verified the Kibble-Zurek mechanism and the finite-time scaling in a reconfigurable…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-05-22 Rui-Zhen Huang , Shuai Yin

Studies have shown that quantum states reside in a Hilbert space bundle. When a quantum system depends on continuous external parameters, these parameters define additional dimensions in the base space of the bundle. While much of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-10 Chia-Yi Ju , Szu-Ming Chen

The experimental realization of the quantum Kibble-Zurek mechanism in arrays of trapped Rydberg atoms has brought the problem of commensurate-incommensurate transition back into the focus of active research. Relying on equilibrium…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-10-04 Jose Soto Garcia , Natalia Chepiga

In non-Hermitian physics, high-order exceptional points(HOEPs) with eigenvalues and eigenvectors coalesce are known for their enhanced sensitivity to perturbations. Typically, they exhibit eigenvalue splitting that scales as…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-16 Teng Yin , Hao Zhang

We study the role played by extensive degeneracy in shaping the nature of the quantum dynamics of a one-dimensional spin model for both ramp and periodic drive protocols. The model displays an extensive degenerate manifold of states for a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-07 Krishanu Ghosh , Diptiman Sen , K. Sengupta

When a quantum system exhibiting a second order phase transition is quenched across the critical point in large but finite time, the dynamics are not adiabatic in the critical region and the Kibble-Zurek (KZ) mechanism provides a framework…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-07 Lakshita Jindal , Kavita Jain

We study the appearance of Exceptional Points in a hybrid system composed of a superconducting flux-qubit and an ensemble of nitrogen-vacancy colour centres in diamond. We discuss the possibility of controlling the generation of Exceptional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Romina Ramirez , Marta Reboiro , Diego Tielas

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

We investigate the impact on basic quantum transport properties of disorder-induced exceptional points (EPs) that emerge in a disorder-averaged Green's function description of two-dimensional (2D) Dirac semimetals with spin- or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-27 Benjamin Michen , Jan Carl Budich

A non-Hermitian system at an exceptional point (EP), a specific critical point (CP) associated with the parity-time symmetric phase transition, exhibits a sublinear response to perturbation and promise unprecedented sensitivity beyond the…

The control of condensed matter systems out of equilibrium by laser pulses allows us to investigate the system trajectories through symmetry-breaking phase transitions. Thus the evolution of both collective modes and single particle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Dragan Mihailovic , Tomaz Mertelj , Viktor V Kabanov , Serguei Brazovskii
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