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Investigating the initial conditions that lead many-body quantum systems to an out-of-equilibrium state is fundamental for understanding their thermalization dynamics. In this work we observe the relaxation for two regimes of excitation…

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Uncovering and understanding universal dynamics in matter far from equilibrium remains a key challenge. In this work, we identify a so far unrecognized form of universal behavior that emerges after a sudden symmetry-breaking quench at…

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The Kibble-Zurek (KZ) mechanism has been applied to a variety of systems ranging from low temperature Bose-Einstein condensations to grand unification scales in particle physics and cosmology and from classical phase transitions to quantum…

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The quantum ferromagnetic transition at zero temperature in disordered itinerant electron systems is considered. Nonmagnetic quenched disorder leads to diffusive electron dynamics that induces an effective long-range interaction between the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-28 T. R. Kirkpatrick , D. Belitz

When a quantum phase transition is crossed within a finite time, critical slowing down disrupts adiabatic dynamics, resulting in the formation of topological defects. The average density of these defects scales with the quench rate,…

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We investigate quantum quenches starting from a critical point and experimentally probe the associated defect statistics using a trapped-ion quantum simulator of the transverse-field Ising model. The cumulants of the defect number…

We study the out-of-equilibrium Kibble-Zurek (KZ) dynamics in quantum Ising chains in a transverse field, driven by a time-dependent longitudinal field $h(t)=t/t_s$ ($t_s$ is the time scale of the protocol), across their first-order quantum…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-10 Andrea Pelissetto , Davide Rossini , Ettore Vicari

We study the quantum quench of the Yukawa Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model and one of its lattice extensions with $q$ fermions and one boson. Several equilibrium properties are computed for general $q$ with different parameter scaling within the…

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Despite very promising results, capturing the dynamics of complex quantum systems with neural-network ans\"atze has been plagued by several problems, one of which being stochastic noise that makes the dynamics unstable and highly dependent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-24 Kaelan Donatella , Zakari Denis , Alexandre Le Boité , Cristiano Ciuti

We experimentally probe the distribution of kink pairs resulting from driving a one-dimensional quantum Ising chain through the paramagnet-ferromagnet quantum phase transition, using a single trapped ion as a quantum simulator in momentum…

We investigate the evolution of entanglement spectra under a global quantum quench from a short-range correlated state to the quantum critical point. Motivated by the conformal mapping, we find that the dynamical entanglement spectra…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-11-11 Qicheng Tang , W. Zhu

We study finite-time driving across second-order dissipative quantum phase transitions described by Lindblad dynamics. We show that the nonadiabatic entropy production, which quantifies deviations from the instantaneous nonequilibrium…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-05 Laetitia P. Bettmann , Artur M. Lacerda , Mark T. Mitchison , John Goold

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

We evaluate out of time ordered correlators in certain low dimensional quantum systems at zero temperature, subjected to homogenous quantum quenches. We find that when the Lyapunov exponent exists, it can be identified with the quenched…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-23 Adith Sai Aramthottil , Diptarka Das , Suchetan Das , Bidyut Dey

Quantum systems in extreme conditions can exhibit universal behavior far from equilibrium associated to nonthermal fixed points with a wide range of topical applications from early-universe inflaton dynamics and heavy-ion collisions to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-27 Jürgen Berges , Benjamin Wallisch

We study the nonequilibrium dynamics of a quasiperiodic quantum Ising chain after a sudden change in the strength of the transverse field at zero temperature. In particular we consider the dynamics of the entanglement entropy and the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-06-18 Ferenc Igloi , Gergo Roosz , Yu-Cheng Lin

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

Out-of-equilibrium phenomena is a subject of considerable interest in many fields of physics. Ultracold quantum gases, which are extremely clean, well-isolated and highly controllable systems, offer ideal platforms to investigate this…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-02-01 J. Beugnon , N. Navon

We study the out-of-equilibrium dynamics of one-dimensional quantum Ising-like systems, arising from sudden quenches of the Hamiltonian parameter $g$ driving quantum transitions between disordered and ordered phases. In particular, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-05-16 Davide Rossini , Ettore Vicari