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We investigate the statistics of the work performed during a quench across a quantum phase transition using the adiabatic perturbation theory. It is shown that all the cumulants of work exhibit universal scaling behavior analogous to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-06 Zhaoyu Fei , Nahuel Freitas , Vasco Cavina , H. T. Quan , Massimiliano Esposito

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

Taking the quantum Kitaev chain as an example, we have studied the universal dynamical behaviors resulting from quantum criticality under the condition of environmental temperature quench. Our findings reveal that when the quantum parameter…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Chengxiang Ding , Long Zhang

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

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

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

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

Many previous studies have demonstrated that work statistics can exhibit certain singular behaviors in the quantum critical regimes of many-body systems at zero or very low temperatures. However, as the temperature increases, it is commonly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-08 Ze-Zhou Zhang , Wei Wu

The Kibble-Zurek mechanism captures universality when a system is driven through a continuous phase transition. Here we study the dynamical aspect of quantum phase transitions in the Ising Field Theory where the critical point can be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-11-04 Kristóf Hódsági , Márton Kormos

While quantum phase transitions share many characteristics with thermodynamic phase transitions, they are also markedly different as they occur at zero temperature. Hence, it is not immediately clear whether tools and frameworks that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-16 Pierre Nazé , Marcus V. S. Bonança , Sebastian Deffner

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

Using the scaling relation of the ground state quantum fidelity, we propose the most generic scaling relations of the irreversible work (the residual energy) of a closed quantum system at absolute zero temperature when one of the parameters…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-09-02 Shraddha Sharma , Amit Dutta

Quantum quenches in continuum field theory across critical points are known to display different scaling behaviours in different regimes of the quench rate. We extend these results to integrable lattice models such as the transverse field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-17 Diptarka Das , Sumit R. Das , Damián A. Galante , Robert C. Myers , Krishnendu Sengupta

We consider the dynamics of an isolated quantum many-body system after a sudden change of one control parameter, focusing on the statistics of the work done. We establish a connection between the generating function of the distribution of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-06-15 Andrea Gambassi , Alessandro Silva

We reveal universal dynamical scaling behavior across adiabatic quantum phase transitions (QPTs) in networks ranging from traditional spatial systems (Ising model) to fully connected ones (Dicke and Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick models). Our…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 O. L. Acevedo , L. Quiroga , F. J. Rodríguez , N. F. Johnson

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

We study the full distribution of quantum work in generic, noninteracting, disordered fermionic nanosystems at finite temperature. We derive an analytical determinant formula for the characteristic function of work statistics for quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-18 András Grabarits , Márton Kormos , Izabella Lovas , Gergely Zaránd

We study the critical dynamics of a scalar field theory with $Z_2$ symmetry in the dynamic universality class of Model A in two and three spatial dimensions with classical-statistical lattice simulations. In particular, we measure the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-18 Leon J. Sieke , Mattis Harhoff , Sören Schlichting , Lorenz von Smekal

The Kibble-Zurek mechanism describes the saturation of critical scaling upon dynamically approaching a phase transition. This is a consequence of the breaking of adiabaticity due to the scale set by the slow drive. By driving the gap…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-01 Björn Ladewig , Steven Mathey , Sebastian Diehl
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