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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

The Kibble-Zurek mechanism is applied to the spontaneous formation of vortices in a harmonically trapped thermal gas following a temperature quench through the critical value for Bose-Einstein condensation. While in the homogeneous scenario…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-05-21 A. del Campo , A. Retzker , M. B. Plenio

Quasi-static transformations, or slow quenches, of many-body quantum systems across quantum critical points create topological defects. The Kibble-Zurek mechanism regulates the appearance of defects in a local quantum system through a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-16 Stefano Gherardini , Lorenzo Buffoni , Nicolò Defenu

The Kibble-Zurek (KZ) mechanism has been applied to a variety of systems ranging from low temperature Bose-Einstein condensations to grand unification scales in particle physics and cosmology and from classical phase transitions to quantum…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-02-15 Yingyi Huang , Shuai Yin , Baoquan Feng , Fan Zhong

We study the formation of topological textures in a nonequilibrium phase transition of an overdamped classical O(3) model in 2+1 dimensions. The phase transition is triggered through an external, time-dependent effective mass, parameterized…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 G. J. Stephens

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

We study the slow quench dynamics of a one-dimensional nonequilibrium lattice gas model which exhibits a phase transition in the stationary state between a fluid phase with homogeneously distributed particles and a jammed phase with a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-09-11 Priyanka , Kavita Jain

In the nonadiabatic dynamics across a quantum phase transition, the Kibble-Zurek mechanism predicts that the formation of topological defects is suppressed as a universal power law with the quench time. In inhomogeneous systems, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-05 F. J. Gómez-Ruiz , A. del Campo

When a quantum phase transition is crossed in finite time, critical slowing down leads to the breakdown of adiabatic dynamics and the formation of topological defects. The average density of defects scales with the quench rate following a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-26 Adolfo del Campo

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 employ quench dynamics as an effective tool to probe different universality classes of topological phase transitions. Specifically, we study a model encompassing both Dirac-like and nodal loop criticalities. Examining the Kibble-Zurek…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-12-06 Karin Sim , R. Chitra , Paolo Molignini

The Kibble-Zurek mechanism demands an initial adiabatic stage before an impulse stage to have a frozen correlation length that generates topological defects in a cooling phase transition. Here we study such a driven critical dynamics but…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-01-19 Yingyi Huang , Shuai Yin , Qijun Hu , Fan Zhong

In the field of non-equilibrium phase transitions, the Kibble-Zurek mechanism (KZM) is undoubtedly an important discovery, pointing out that some universal scaling rules are applied to a wide range of physical systems from quantum to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-16 Wen Wei , Shanhua Zhu , Yi Xie , Baoquan Ou , Wei Wu , Pingxing Chen

The conventional Kibble-Zurek mechanism and the finite-time scaling provide universal descriptions of the driven critical dynamics from gapped initial states based on the adiabatic-impulse scenario. Here we investigate the driven critical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-22 Zhi Zeng , Yin-Kai Yu , Zhi-Xuan Li , Zi-Xiang Li , Shuai Yin

We analyze mechanisms for universal out-of-equilibrium dynamics near criticality by exploring the effect of randomized quantum resetting (QR) under a finite-time quench across a quantum phase transition. Using the transverse-field Ising…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-03 R. Jafari , Henrik Johannesson , Sebastian Eggert

The conventional Kibble-Zurek mechanism (KZM) describes the driven critical dynamics in the Landau-Ginzburg-Wilson (LGW) spontaneous symmetry-breaking phase transitions. However, whether the KZM is still applicable in the deconfined quantum…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-05-21 Rui-Zhen Huang , Shuai Yin

When a system is swept through a quantum critical point, the quantum Kibble-Zurek mechanism makes universal predictions for quantities such as the number and energy of excitations produced. This mechanism is now being used to obtain…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-09 Nicholas E. Sherman , Alexander Avdoshkin , Joel E. Moore

We introduce a simple criterion for lattice models to predict quantitatively the crossover between the classical and the quantum scaling of the Kibble-Zurek mechanism, as the one observed in a quantum $\phi^4$-model on a 1D lattice [Phys.…

We present an exact solution for a quantum spin chain driven through its critical points. Our approach is based on a many-body generalization of the Landau-Zener transition theory, applied to fermionized spin Hamiltonian. The resulting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-12 R. W. Cherng , L. S. Levitov

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…