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At finite temperature, the field along a linear stretch of correlation length size is supposed to trace the shortest path in the field space given the two end point values, known as the Geodesic rule. In this study, we compute the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-17 Sanatan Digal , Vinod Mamale

We present new experimental results on the quenching dynamics of an extended thermo-convective system (a network array of approximately 100 convective oscillators) going through a secondary subcritical bifurcation. We characterize a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-03-19 M. A. Miranda , J. Burguete , W. González-Viñas , H. Mancini

Quantum Ising model is an exactly solvable model of quantum phase transition. This paper gives an exact solution when the system is driven through the critical point at finite rate. The evolution goes through a series of Landau-Zener level…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Jacek Dziarmaga

We propose that Kibble-Zurek scaling can be studied in optical lattices by creating geometries that support, Dirac, Semi-Dirac and Quadratic Band Crossings. On a Honeycomb lattice with fermions, as a staggered on-site potential is varied…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-14 Amit Dutta , R. R. P. Singh , Uma Divakaran

We study the crossing of the quantum phase transition in the transverse-field Ising model after modulating the magnetic field at an arbitrary rate, exploring the critical dynamics from the slow to the sudden quench regime. We do so by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-05 András Grabarits , Federico Balducci , Adolfo del Campo

According to the famous Kibble-Zurek mechanism (KZM), the universality of spontaneous defect generation in continuous phase transitions (CPTs) can be understood by the critical slowing down. In most CPTs of atomic Bose-Einstein condensates…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-10-12 Shuyuan Wu , Xizhou Qin , Jun Xu , Chaohong Lee

We study the large deviations statistics of the intensive work done by changing globally a control parameter in a thermally isolated quantum many-body system. We show that, upon approaching a critical point, large deviations well below the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-12-27 Andrea Gambassi , Alessandro Silva

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

Non-Hermitian physics provides an effective description of open and nonequilibrium systems and hosts many novel and intriguing phenomena such as exceptional points and non-Hermitian skin effect. Despite extensive theoretical and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-04 Menghua Deng , Wei Li , Kangyi Hu , Fuxiang Li

We consider the Rabi Hamiltonian which exhibits a quantum phase transition (QPT) despite consisting only of a single-mode cavity field and a two-level atom. We prove QPT by deriving an exact solution in the limit where the atomic transition…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-30 Myung-Joong Hwang , Ricardo Puebla , Martin B. Plenio

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

We introduce a simple criterion for lattice models to predict quantitatively the crossover between the classical and the quantum scaling of the Kibble-Zurek mechanism, as the one observed in a quantum $\phi^4$-model on a 1D lattice [Phys.…

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

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

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

Quantum simulations of the Bose-Hubbard model (BHM) at commensurate filling can follow spreading of correlations after a sudden quench for times long enough to estimate their propagation velocities. In this work we perform tensor network…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-05-03 Jacek Dziarmaga , Jakub M. Mazur

We study the formation of topological textures in a nonequilibrium phase transition of an overdamped classical O(3) model in 2+1 dimensions. The phase transition is triggered through an external, time-dependent effective mass, parameterized…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 G. J. Stephens

We study the quantum Ising model in the transverse inhomogeneous magnetic field. Such a system can be approached numerically through exact diagonalization and analytically through the renormalization group techniques. Basic insights into…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-11-22 Mateusz Łącki , Bogdan Damski

We study the statistical properties of the spread complexity in the Krylov space of quantum systems driven across a quantum phase transition. Using the diabatic Magnus expansion, we map the evolution to an effective one-dimensional hopping…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 András Grabarits , Adolfo del Campo

We study how universal properties of quantum quenches across critical points are modified by a weak coupling to thermal dissipation, focusing on the paradigmatic case of the transverse field Ising model. Beyond the standard quench-induced…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-08-05 P. Nalbach , Smitha Vishveshwara , Aashish A. Clerk