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When an external parameter drives a system across a quantum phase transition at a finite rate, work is performed on the system and entropy is dissipated, due to the creation of excitations via the Kibble-Zurek mechanism. Although both the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-09 Zhanyu Ma , Andrew K. Mitchell , Eran Sela

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

We study the universality of work statistics of a system quenched through a quantum critical surface. By using the adiabatic perturbation theory, we obtain the general scaling behavior for all cumulants of work. These results extend the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-02-16 Fan Zhang , H. T. Quan

When a quantum phase transition is crossed within a finite time, critical slowing down disrupts adiabatic dynamics, resulting in the formation of topological defects. The average density of these defects scales with the quench rate,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-12 Oriel Kiss , Daniil Teplitskiy , Michele Grossi , Antonio Mandarino

In the course of a non-equilibrium continuous phase transition, the dynamics ceases to be adiabatic in the vicinity of the critical point as a result of the critical slowing down (the divergence of the relaxation time in the neighborhood of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-06-03 Adolfo del Campo , Wojciech H. Zurek

The crossing of a continuous phase transition gives rise to the formation of topological defects described by the Kibble-Zurek mechanism (KZM) in the limit of slow quenches. The KZM predicts a universal power-law scaling of the defect…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-05-04 Hua-Bi Zeng , Chuan-Yin Xia , Adolfo del Campo

We investigate the quench dynamics of an open quantum system involving a quantum phase transition. In the isolated case, the quench dynamics involving the phase transition exhibits a number of scaling relations with the quench rate as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-15 Ricardo Puebla , Andrea Smirne , Susana F. Huelga , Martin B. Plenio

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

In this paper, we systematically study the work statistics for quantum phase transition. For a quantum system approached by an anisotropic conformal field theory near the critical point, the driving protocols is divided into three different…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-05-05 Zhaoyu Fei , C. P. Sun

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

When a system is swept through a quantum critical point (QCP), the Kibble-Zurek mechanism predicts that the average number of topological defects follows a universal power-law scaling with the ramp time scale. This scaling behavior is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-19 R. Jafari , Alireza Akbari

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

We present a formulation for investigating quench dynamics across quantum phase transitions in the presence of decoherence. We formulate decoherent dynamics induced by continuous quantum non-demolition measurements of the instantaneous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-16 Wei-Ting Kuo , Daniel Arovas , Smitha Vishveshwara , Yi-Zhuang You

We numerically study the density of topological defects for a two-dimensional assembly of particles driven over quenched disorder as a function of quench rate through the nonequilibrium phase transition from a plastic disordered flowing…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-04-23 C. J. O. Reichhardt , A. del Campo , C. Reichhardt

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…

Universality and scaling are fundamental concepts in equilibrium continuous phase transitions. Here, we unveil a unique and universal scaling behavior of the critical time in slowly driven dynamical quantum phase transition. Going beyond…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-09-26 Xiang Zhang , Liangdong Hu , Fuxiang Li

We give an overview of the scaling of density of quasi-particles and excess energy (heat) for nearly adiabatic dynamics near quantum critical points (QCPs). In particular we discuss both sudden quenches of small amplitude and slow sweeps…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-05-19 Vladimir Gritsev , Anatoli Polkovnikov

The Kibble-Zurek (KZ) hypothesis identifies the relevant time scales in out-of-equilibrium dynamics of critical systems employing concepts valid at equilibrium: It predicts the scaling of the defect formation immediately after quenches…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-08 Pietro Silvi , Giovanna Morigi , Tommaso Calarco , Simone Montangero

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

The Kibble-Zurek mechanism quantifies defect formation during adiabatic passage across a continuous phase transition, providing key insights into universality in quantum many-body systems. We explore counting statistics of defects in…

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