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We study the equilibrium and dynamical properties of a ferromagnetic spinor atomic Bose-Einstein condensate. In the vicinity of the critical point for a continuous quantum phase transition, universal behaviors are observed both in the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-07-25 Ming Xue , Shuai Yin , Li You

We review quantum phase transitions of spin systems in transverse magnetic fields taking the examples of the spin-1/2 Ising and XY models in a transverse field. Beginning with an overview of quantum phase transitions, we introduce a number…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-10 Amit Dutta , Gabriel Aeppli , Bikas K. Chakrabarti , Uma Divakaran , Thomas F. Rosenbaum , Diptiman Sen

We propose an interferometry within the framework of quantum Kibble-Zurek mechanism by exemplifying two prototypical quench protocols, namely the round-trip and quarter-turn ones, on the transverse Ising and quantum $XY$ chains. Each…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 Han-Chuan Kou , Peng Li

We investigate defects in the two-dimensional transverse-field Ising ferromagnet on periodic $L\times L$ lattices after quantum annealing from high to vanishing field. With exact numerical solutions for $L \le 6$, we observe the expected…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-15 Phillip Weinberg , Na Xu , Anders W. Sandvik

We show that the symmetry-breaking gap of the quantum Ising model in the transverse field can be extracted from free evolution of the longitudinal magnetization taking place after a gradual quench of the magnetic field. We perform for this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-02-19 Michał Białończyk , Bogdan Damski

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

Currently, existing quantum annealers have proven themselves as viable technology for the first practical applications in the noisy-intermediate-scale-quantum era. However, to fully exploit their capabilities, a comprehensive…

We study the driven critical dynamics of the quantum link model, whose Hamiltonian describes the one-dimensional $U(1)$ lattice gauge theory. We find that combined topological defects emerge after the quench and they consist of both gauge…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-02-25 Yao-Tai Kang , Chung-Yu Lo , Shuai Yin , Pochung Chen

While a large number of studies have focused on the nonequilibrium dynamics of a system when it is quenched instantaneously from a disordered phase to an ordered phase, such dynamics have been relatively less explored when the quench occurs…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-03-22 Priyanka , Sayani Chatterjee , Kavita Jain

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

When a system is driven across a second-order quantum phase transition, the number of defects which are produced scales with the speed of the variation of the tuning parameter according to a universal law described by the Kibble-Zurek…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-03-29 Gianluca Francica , Luca Dell'Anna

If a system is driven at finite-rate through a phase transition by varying an intensive parameter, the order parameter shatters into finite domains. The Kibble-Zurek mechanism predicts the typical size of these domains, which are governed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-11-20 Sebastian Deffner

The proliferation of topological defects is a common out-of-equilibrium phenomenon when a system is driven into a phase of broken symmetry. The Kibble-Zurek mechanism (KZM) provides a theoretical framework for the critical dynamics and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-07-12 Zhijie Fan , Adolfo del Campo , Gia-Wei Chern

Symmetry breaking phase transitions play an important role in nature. When a system traverses such a transition at a finite rate, its causally disconnected regions choose the new broken symmetry state independently. Where such local choices…

In this work, we explore the driven dynamics of the one-dimensional ($1$D) localization transitions. By linearly changing the strength of disorder potential, we calculate the evolution of the localization length $\xi$ and the inverse…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-03-15 Xuan Bu , Liang-Jun Zhai , Shuai Yin

We present here our study of the adiabatic quantum dynamics of a random Ising chain across its quantum critical point. The model investigated is an Ising chain in a transverse field with disorder present both in the exchange coupling and in…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Tommaso Caneva , Rosario Fazio , Giuseppe E. Santoro

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

When matter undergoes a continuous phase transition on a finite timescale, the Kibble-Zurek mechanism predicts universal scaling behavior with respect to structure formation. The scaling is dependent on the universality class and is…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-02-07 Yiping Chen , Munekazu Horikoshi , Kosuke Yoshioka , Makoto Kuwata-Gonokami

The Kibble-Zurek (KZ) mechanism has been extensively studied in various second-order phase transitions, yet the case of tricriticality-the point where second-order phase transition lines terminate-remains experimentally elusive. Here, we…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-12-02 Hanteng Wang , Xingyu Li , Chengshu Li

Kibble-Zurek scaling is the scaling of the density of the topological defects formed via the Kibble-Zurek mechanism with respect to the rate at which a system is cooled across a continuous phase transition. Recently, the density of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-03-26 Fan Zhong