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The dynamics of many-body systems spanning condensed matter, cosmology, and beyond is hypothesized to be universal when the systems cross continuous phase transitions. The universal dynamics is expected to satisfy a scaling symmetry of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-11-15 Logan W. Clark , Lei Feng , Cheng Chin

We consider the number distribution of topological defects resulting from the finite-time crossing of a continuous phase transition and identify signatures of universality beyond the mean value, predicted by the Kibble-Zurek mechanism.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-06-24 Fernando J. Gómez-Ruiz , Jack J. Mayo , Adolfo del Campo

Zurek's and Kibble's causal constraints for defect production at continuous transitions are encoded in the field equations that condensed matter systems and quantum fields satisfy. In this article we highlight some of the properties of the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 R. J. Rivers

We consider the scaling behavior of circuit complexity under quantum quench in an a relativistic fermion field theory on a one dimensional spatial lattice. This is done by finding an exactly solvable quench protocol which asymptotes to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-15 Sinong Liu

We study defect generation in a quantum XY-spin chain arising due to the linear drive of the many-body Hamiltonian in the presence of a time-dependent fast Gaussian noise. The main objective of this work is to quantify analytically the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-09-08 Manvendra Singh , Suhas Gangadharaiah

The Kibble-Zurek mechanism (KZM) predicts the spontaneous formation of topological defects in a continuous phase transition driven at a finite rate. We propose the generation of spontaneous quantum turbulence (SQT) via the KZM during…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-12-09 Seong-Ho Shinn , Matteo Massaro , Mithun Thudiyangal , Adolfo del Campo

We investigate the formation of topological defects in the course of a dynamical phase transition with different boundary conditions in a ring from AdS/CFT correspondence. According to the Kibble-Zurek mechanism, quenching the system across…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-25 Zhi-Hong Li , Han-Qing Shi , Hai-Qing Zhang

We employ holographic techniques to explore the effects of momentum dissipation on the formation of topological defects during the critical dynamics of a strongly coupled superconductor after a linear quench of temperature. The gravity dual…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-19 Zhi-Hong Li , Hua-Bi Zeng , Hai-Qing Zhang

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…

We investigate the excitation dynamics at a first-order quantum phase transition (QPT). More specifically, we consider the quench-induced QPT in the quantum search algorithm, which aims at finding out a marked element in an unstructured…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-03-01 Ivan B. Coulamy , Andreia Saguia , Marcelo S. Sarandy

We study the universality of work statistics performed during a quench in gapless quantum systems. We show that the cumulants of work scale separately in the fast and slow quench regimes, following a power law analogous to the universal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-21 Donny Dwiputra , Mir Faizal , Francesco Marino , Freddy P. Zen

According to the famous Kibble-Zurek mechanism (KZM), the universality of spontaneous defect generation in continuous phase transitions (CPTs) can be understood by the critical slowing down. In most CPTs of atomic Bose-Einstein condensates…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-10-12 Shuyuan Wu , Xizhou Qin , Jun Xu , Chaohong Lee

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…

Universal dynamics of spontaneous symmetry breaking is central to understanding the universal behavior of spontaneous defect formation in various system from the early universe, condensed-matter systems to ultracold atomic systems. We…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-04-20 Jun Xu , Shuyuan Wu , Xizhou Qin , Jiahao Huang , Yongguan Ke , Honghua Zhong , Chaohong Lee

Using Monte Carlo simulations, we investigate the dynamical properties of the Baxter-Wu (BW) model under linear quenches. For the linear cooling process, the scaling behavior of the excess defect density in the critical region aligns well…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-01 Chen Tang , Konstantinos Sfairopoulos , Wanzhou Zhang , Chengxiang Ding

A new experiment has been performed to study the formation of topological defects (quantized vortices) during rapid quenches of liquid 4He through the superfluid transition, with particular care taken to minimise vortex creation via…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 M. E. Dodd , P. C. Hendry , N. S. Lawson , P. V. E. McClintock , C. D. H. Williams

The spontaneous transformations associated with symmetry-breaking phase transitions generate domain structures and defects that may be topological in nature. The formation of these defects can be described according to the Kibble-Zurek…

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

The dynamical evolution of an inhomogeneous ultracold atomic gas quenched at different controllable rates through the Bose-Einstein condensation phase transition is studied numerically in the premise of a recent experiment in an anisotropic…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-08-12 I-Kang Liu , Jacek Dziarmaga , Shih-Chuan Gou , Franco Dalfovo , Nick P. Proukakis

We study the dynamics of the relative phase of a bilayer of two-dimensional superfluids after the two superfluids have been decoupled. We find that on short time scales the relative phase shows "light cone" like dynamics and creates a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-05-29 L. Mathey , A. Polkovnikov