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When a system is driven across a quantum critical point at a constant rate its evolution must become non-adiabatic as the relaxation time $\tau$ diverges at the critical point. According to the Kibble-Zurek mechanism (KZM), the emerging…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-02-22 Anna Francuz , Jacek Dziarmaga , Bartlomiej Gardas , Wojciech H. Zurek

We present a formulation for investigating quench dynamics across quantum phase transitions in the presence of decoherence. We formulate decoherent dynamics induced by continuous quantum non-demolition measurements of the instantaneous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-16 Wei-Ting Kuo , Daniel Arovas , Smitha Vishveshwara , Yi-Zhuang You

Critical points with emergent symmetry exhibit intriguing scaling properties induced by two divergent length scales, attracting extensive investigations recently. We study the driven critical dynamics in a three-dimensional $q$-state clock…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-13 Yu-Rong Shu , Li-Ying Yang , Shuai Yin

A quantum many-body system whose dynamics includes local measurements at a nonzero rate can be in distinct dynamical phases, with differing entanglement properties. We introduce theoretical approaches to measurement-induced phase…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-04-07 Adam Nahum , Sthitadhi Roy , Brian Skinner , Jonathan Ruhman

Unitary circuits subject to repeated projective measurements can undergo an entanglement phase transition (EPT) as a function of the measurement rate. This transition is generally understood in terms of a competition between the scrambling…

The Kibble-Zurek (KZ) hypothesis identifies the relevant time scales in out-of-equilibrium dynamics of critical systems employing concepts valid at equilibrium: It predicts the scaling of the defect formation immediately after quenches…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-08 Pietro Silvi , Giovanna Morigi , Tommaso Calarco , Simone Montangero

This is a conference proceeding in the framework of workshop "OpenQMBP2023" at Institute Pascal (Orsay, France) and associated to the lecture given by Prof. Ehud Altman. We provide a comprehensive analysis of recent results in the context…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-09-16 Alexios Christopoulos , Alessandro Santini , Guido Giachetti

We investigate the dynamics of two-dimensional quantum spin systems under the combined effect of random unitary gates and local projective measurements. When considering steady states, a measurement-induced transition occurs between two…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-16 Xhek Turkeshi , Rosario Fazio , Marcello Dalmonte

Quantum critical behavior of many-body phase transitions is one of the most fascinating yet challenging questions in quantum physics. Here, we improved the band-mapping method to investigate the quantum phase transition from superfluid to…

State-of-the-art tensor networks are employed to simulate the Hamiltonian ramp in the analog-digital quantum simulation of the quantum phase transition to the quasi-long-range ordered phase of the two-dimensional square-lattice $XX$ model…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-13 Yintai Zhang , Francis A. Bayocboc , Jacek Dziarmaga

Adaptive quantum circuits-where a quantum many-body state is controlled using measurements and conditional unitary operations-are a powerful paradigm for state preparation and quantum error correction tasks. They can support two types of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-30 Thomas Iadecola , Justin H. Wilson , J. H. Pixley

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

Kibble-Zurek mechanism relates the domain of non-equilibrium dynamics with the critical properties at equilibrium. It establishes a power law connection between non-equilibrium defects quenched through a continuous phase transition and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-23 Amit Jamadagni , Javad Kazemi , Arpan Bhattacharyya

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

The Kibble-Zurek mechanism describes the saturation of critical scaling upon dynamically approaching a phase transition. This is a consequence of the breaking of adiabaticity due to the scale set by the slow drive. By driving the gap…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-01 Björn Ladewig , Steven Mathey , Sebastian Diehl

The interplay of unitary evolution and projective measurements is a modern interest in the study of many-body entanglement. On the one hand, the competition between these two processes leads to the recently discovered measurement-induced…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-05 Cole Kelson-Packer , Akimasa Miyake

The evolution of a quantum system subject to measurements can be described by stochastic quantum trajectories of pure states. Instead, the ensemble average over trajectories is a mixed state evolving via a master equation. Both descriptions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-22 Christian Carisch , Alessandro Romito , Oded Zilberberg

We define dynamical universality classes for many-body systems whose unitary evolution is punctuated by projective measurements. In cases where such measurements occur randomly at a finite rate $p$ for each degree of freedom, we show that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-07-29 Brian Skinner , Jonathan Ruhman , Adam Nahum

We explore quantum criticality and Kibble-Zurek scaling (KZS) in the Aubry-Andre-Stark (AAS) model, where the Stark field of strength $\varepsilon$ is added onto the one-dimensional quasiperiodic lattice. We perform scaling analysis and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-05-29 En-Wen Liang , Ling-Zhi Tang , Dan-Wei Zhang

We study a one-dimensional lattice model with site-dependent nearest-neighbor hopping amplitudes that follow a power-law profile. The hopping variation is controlled by a grading exponent, $|alpha|$, which serves as the tuning parameter of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-04-20 Argha Debnath , Ayan Sahoo , Debraj Rakshit