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The Kibble-Zurek mechanism predicts the formation of topological defects and other excitations that quantify how much a quantum system driven across a quantum critical point fails to be adiabatic. We point out that, thanks to the divergent…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-10-02 Marek M. Rams , Jacek Dziarmaga , Wojciech H. Zurek

Within the framework of the Kibble-Zurek Mechanism, we investigate the universal behavior of the non-equilibrium critical fluctuations, using the Langevin dynamics of model A. With properly located typical time, length and angle scales,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-11-28 Shanjin Wu , Huichao Song

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…

Work in isolated quantum systems is a random variable and its probability distribution function obeys the celebrated fluctuation theorems of Crooks and Jarzynski. In this study, we provide a simple way to describe the work probability…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-04 Eric G. Arrais , Diego A. Wisniacki , Augusto J. Roncaglia , Fabricio Toscano

The Kibble-Zurek mechanism (KZM) predicts that when a system is driven through a continuous phase transition, the density of topological defects scales universally with the quench rate. Recent theoretical work [H.-B. Zeng \textit{et al.},…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-10 Xinxin Rao , Yang Liu , Mingshen Li , Teng Liu , Huabi Zeng , Le Luo

Keldysh field theory, based on adiabatic assumptions, serves as an widely used framework for addressing nonequilibrium many-body systems. Nonetheless, the validity of such adiabatic assumptions when addressing interacting Gibbs states…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-04 Yi Zuo , Qinghong Yang , Bang-Gui Liu , Dong E Liu

We study the behavior of the defect and heat densities under sudden quenching near the quantum critical points in the two-dimensional Kitaev honeycomb model both in the thermodynamic and non-thermodynamic limits. We consider quenches…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-11-29 Aavishkar A. Patel , Amit Dutta

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 emerging field of quantum thermodynamics is contributing important results and insights into archetypal many-body problems, including quantum phase transitions. Still, the question whether out-of-equilibrium quantities, such as…

We analyze the quantum phase transitions taking place in a one-dimensional transverse field Ising model with long-range couplings that decay algebraically with distance. We are interested in the Kibble-Zurek universal scaling laws emerging…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-25 Ricardo Puebla , Oliver Marty , Martin B. Plenio

We study the scaling behavior of the fidelity ($F$) in the thermodynamic limit using the examples of a system of Dirac fermions in one dimension and the Kitaev model on a honeycomb lattice. We show that the thermodynamic fidelity inside the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-01-04 Victor Mukherjee , Amit Dutta , Diptiman Sen

We study the quantum dynamics of many-body systems, in the presence of dissipation due to the interaction with the environment, under Kibble-Zurek (KZ) protocols in which one Hamiltonian parameter is slowly, and linearly in time, driven…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-05-27 Davide Rossini , Ettore Vicari

Quantum simulations of many-body systems are among the most promising applications of quantum computers. In particular, models based on strongly-correlated fermions are central to our understanding of quantum chemistry and materials…

The Kibble-Zurek scaling reveals the universal dynamics when a system is linearly ramped across a symmetry-breaking phase transition. However, in reality, inevitable finite-size effects or symmetrybreaking perturbations can often smear out…

We present a theory of quantum work statistics in generic chaotic, disordered Fermi liquid systems within a driven random matrix formalism. By extending P. W. Anderson's orthogonality determinant formula to compute quantum work…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-16 András Grabarits , Márton Kormos , Izabella Lovas , Gergely Zaránd

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

Measuring universal data in the strongly correlated regime of quantum critical points remains a fundamental objective for quantum simulators. In foundational work, Calabrese and Cardy demonstrated how this data governs the dynamics of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-30 Julia Wei , Méabh Allen , Jack Kemp , Chenbing Wang , Zixia Wei , Joel E. Moore , Norman Y. Yao

We study the out-of-equilibrium dynamics of $p$-wave superconducting quantum wires with long-range interactions, when the chemical potential is linearly ramped across the topological phase transition. We show that the heat produced after…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-27 Nicolò Defenu , Giovanna Morigi , Luca Dell'Anna , Tilman Enss

Topological defects shape the material and transport properties of physical systems. Examples range from vortex lines in quantum superfluids, defect-mediated buckling of graphene, and grain boundaries in ferromagnets and colloidal crystals,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-03-23 Norbert Stoop , Jörn Dunkel

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