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We investigate finite size scaling aspects of disorder reaction-diffusion processes in one dimension utilizing both numerical and analytical approaches. The former averages the spectrum gap of the associated evolution operators by doubling…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-06-27 M. D. Grynberg , G. L. Rossini , R. B. Stinchcombe

We study the dynamics of thermalization and the approach to equilibrium in the classical phi^4 theory in 1+1 spacetime dimensions. At thermal equilibrium we exploit the equivalence between the classical canonical averages and transfer…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 D. Boyanovsky , C. Destri , H. J. de Vega

Dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs) at critical times appear as non-analyticities during nonequilibrium quantum real-time evolution. Although there is evidence for a close relationship between DQPTs and equilibrium phase…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-10-06 Markus Heyl

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

The theory of continuous phase transitions predicts the universal collective properties of a physical system near a critical point, which for instance manifest in characteristic power-law behaviours of physical observables. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-06-24 Matteo Marcuzzi , Emanuele Levi , Weibin Li , Juan P. Garrahan , Beatriz Olmos , Igor Lesanovsky

We investigate the emergence of universal dynamical scaling in quantum critical spin systems adiabatically driven out of equilibrium, with emphasis on quench dynamics which involves non-isolated critical points (i.e., critical regions) and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Shusa Deng , Gerardo Ortiz , Lorenza Viola

When traversing a symmetry breaking second order phase transition at a finite rate, topological defects form whose number dependence on the quench rate is given by simple power laws. We propose a general approach for the derivation of such…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-03-02 G. Nikoghosyan , R. Nigmatullin , M. B. Plenio

We study the universal far from equilibrium dynamics of magnons in Heisenberg ferromagnets. We show that such systems exhibit universal scaling in momentum and time of the quasiparticle distribution function, with the universal exponents…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-12-08 Saraswat Bhattacharyya , Joaquin F. Rodriguez-Nieva , Eugene Demler

Recent experiments and simulations have shown that unsteady turbulent flows, before reaching a dynamic equilibrium state, display a universal behaviour. We show that the observed universal non-equilibrium scaling can be explained using a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-03-08 Wouter Bos , Robert Rubinstein

We extend the theory of non-thermal fixed points to the case of anomalously slow universal scaling dynamics according to the sine-Gordon model. This entails the derivation of a kinetic equation for the momentum occupancy of the scalar field…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-10-13 Philipp Heinen , Aleksandr N. Mikheev , Thomas Gasenzer

We propose a method to study dynamical response of a quantum system by evolving it with an imaginary-time dependent Hamiltonian. The leading non-adiabatic response of the system driven to a quantum-critical point is universal and…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-28 C. De Grandi , A. Polkovnikov , A. W. Sandvik

The frequency and magnitude of weather extreme events have increased significantly during the past few years in response to anthropogenic climate change. However, global statistical characteristics and underlying physical mechanisms are…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2022-09-07 Qing Yao , Jingfang Fan , Jun Meng , Valerio Lucarini , Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen , Kim Christensen , Xiaosong Chen

The many-body physics at quantum phase transitions shows a subtle interplay between quantum and thermal fluctuations, emerging in the low-temperature limit. In this review, we first give a pedagogical introduction to the equilibrium…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-22 Davide Rossini , Ettore Vicari

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

A numerical method to solve the fractional diffusion equation, which could also be easily extended to many other fractional dynamics equations, is considered. These fractional equations have been proposed in order to describe anomalous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 S. B. Yuste , L. Acedo

There has been substantial progress in recent years in the quantitative understanding of the nonequilibrium time evolution of quantum fields. Important topical applications, in particular in high energy particle physics and cosmology,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-02-04 J. Berges

Understanding thermodynamics far from equilibrium at the quantum scale remains a fundamental challenge, particularly in the presence of quantum coherence. Here we develop a first-principles framework for nonequilibrium quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-11 Md Manirul Ali , Po-Wen Chen

We study the scaling behavior of the relaxation dynamics to thermal equilibrium when a quantum system is near the quantum critical point. In particular, we investigate systems whose relaxation dynamics is described by a Lindblad master…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-05-11 Shuai Yin , Chung-Yu Lo , Pochung Chen

Thermodynamics is commonly presented as a theory of macroscopic systems in stable equilibrium, built upon assumptions of extensivity and scaling with system size. In this paper, we present a universal formulation of the elementary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-26 Gian Paolo Beretta

Transport and the approach to equilibrium in interacting classical and quantum systems is a challenging problem of both theoretical and experimental interest. One useful organizing principle characterizing equilibration is the dissipative…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-08-27 Alexios A. Michailidis , Dmitry A. Abanin , Luca V. Delacrétaz