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Kibble-Zurek mechanism is widely known to appear in the transverse-field quantum Ising chain in the thermodynamic limit at zero temperature, having notorious characteristics, like the divergence of its relaxation time. In this work, I…

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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

In a finite-time continuous phase transition, topological defects emerge as the system undergoes spontaneous symmetry breaking. The Kibble-Zurek mechanism predicts how the defect density scales with the quench rate. During such processes,…

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 constitutes one of the most fascinating and universal phenomena in the physics of critical systems. It describes the formation of domains and the spontaneous nucleation of topological defects when a system is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-13 A. Zamora , G. Dagvadorj , P. Comaron , I. Carusotto , N. P. Proukakis , M. H. Szymanska

Deconfined quantum criticality (DQC) arises from fractionalization of quasi-particles and leads to fascinating behaviors beyond the Landau-Ginzburg-Wilson description of phase transitions. Here, we study the critical dynamics when driving a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-04-15 Yu-Rong Shu , Shao-Kai Jian , Anders W. Sandvik , Shuai Yin

An analytically solvable model for quasi-static transformations across quantum critical points featuring Bosonic quasi-particle excitations is presented. The model proves that adiabaticity breakdown is a general feature of universal slow…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 Nicolò Defenu

We study non-interacting systems with a power-law quasiparticle dispersion $\xi_{\bf k}\propto k^\alpha$ and a random short-range-correlated potential. We show that, unlike the case of lower dimensions, for $d>2\alpha$ there exists a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 S. V. Syzranov , V. Gurarie , L. Radzihovsky

The Kibble-Zurek mechanism (KZM) captures the key physics in the non-equilibrium dynamics of second-order phase transitions, and accurately predict the density of the topological defects formed in this process. However, despite much effort,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-11 Xiao-Ye Xu , Yong-Jian Han , Kai Sun , Jin-Shi Xu , Jian-Shun Tang , Chuan-Feng Li , Guang-Can Guo

We extend the theory of symmetry breaking dynamics in non-equilibrium second order phase transitions known as the Kibble-Zurek mechanism (KZM) to transitions where the change of phase occurs not in time, but in space. This can be due to a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-07-28 Wojciech H. Zurek , Uwe Dorner

Using holography, we study the universal scaling laws governing the coarsening dynamics of strongly coupled domain walls. Specifically, we studied the universal dependence of the length of the domain wall interfaces on the quench rate. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-01-29 Tian-Chi Ma , Han-Qing Shi , Hai-Qing Zhang , Adolfo del Campo

We investigate the nonequilibrium dynamics of the one-dimension Aubry-Andr\'{e}-Harper model with $p$-wave superconductivity by changing the potential strength with slow and sudden quench. Firstly, we study the slow quench dynamics from…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-03-17 Xianqi Tong , Yeming Meng , Xunda Jiang , Chaohong Lee , Gentil Dias de Moraes Neto , Gao Xianlong

A quantum phase transition from the miscible to the immiscible phase of a quasi-one-dimensional binary Bose-Einstein condensate is driven by ramping down the coupling amplitude of its two hyperfine states. It results in a random pattern of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-02-02 Francis A. Bayocboc , Jacek Dziarmaga , Wojciech H. Zurek

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 theoretically explore a dynamical generalization of the Aubry-Andr\'e model in two dimensions formed by superimposing two square-lattice potentials. Motivated by the rich physics emerging at different twist angles between the two…

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We investigate the transition from PT-symmetry to PT-symmetry breaking and vice versa in the non-Hermitian Landau-Zener (LZ) models. The energy is generally complex, so the relaxation rate of the system is set by the absolute value of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-12 Xianqi Tong , Gao Xianlong , Su-peng Kou

In this paper, we theoretically investigate the many-body localization properties of one-dimensional Ising spin-1 chains by using the methods of exact matrix diagonalization. We compare it with the MBL properties of the Ising spin-1/2…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-05-06 Taotao Hu , Yining Zhang , Hang Ren , Yiwen Gao , Xiaodan Li , Jiameng Hong , Yuting Li

There has been a revival of interest in localization phenomena in quasiperiodic systems with a view to examining how they differ fundamentally from such phenomena in random systems. Mo- tivated by this, we study transport in the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-06-20 Jagannath Sutradhar , Subroto Mukerjee , Rahul Pandit , Sumilan Banerjee

We demonstrate that the Kibble-Zurek mechanism (KZM) holds for open systems transitioning from a disordered phase to a discrete time crystal (DTC). Specifically, we observe the main signatures of the KZM when the system is quenched into a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-28 Roy D. Jara , Jayson G. Cosme

We propose an one-dimensional generalized Aubry-Andr{\'e}-Harper (AAH) model with off-diagonal hopping and staggered on-site potential. We find that the localization transitions could be multiple reentrant with the increasing of staggered…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-06-05 Rui Qi , Junpeng Cao , Xiang-Ping Jiang