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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…

Measurement-induced phase transitions (MIPT), characterizing abrupt changes in entanglement properties in quantum many-body systems subjected to unitary evolution with interspersed projective measurements, have garnered increasing interest.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-12 Wantao Wang , Shuo Liu , Jiaqiang Li , Shi-Xin Zhang , Shuai Yin

We propose a theory to explain the experimental observed deviation from the Kibble-Zurek mechanism (KZM) scaling in rapidly quenched critical phase transition dynamics. There is a critical quench rate $\tau_{Q}^{c1}$ above it the KZM…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-10-18 Chuan-Yin Xia , Hua-Bi Zeng

The superfluid phase transition dynamics and associated spontaneous vortex formation with the crossing of the critical temperature in a disk geometry is studied in the framework of the $AdS/CFT$ correspondence by solving the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-06-17 Chuan-Yin Xia , Hua-Bi Zeng , András Grabarits , Adolfo del Campo

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

When a system is swept through a quantum critical point, the quantum Kibble-Zurek mechanism makes universal predictions for quantities such as the number and energy of excitations produced. This mechanism is now being used to obtain…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-09 Nicholas E. Sherman , Alexander Avdoshkin , Joel E. Moore

We study the critical dynamics of a scalar field theory with $Z_2$ symmetry in the dynamic universality class of Model A in two and three spatial dimensions with classical-statistical lattice simulations. In particular, we measure the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-18 Leon J. Sieke , Mattis Harhoff , Sören Schlichting , Lorenz von Smekal

The crossing of a continuous phase transition gives rise to the formation of topological defects described by the Kibble-Zurek mechanism (KZM) in the limit of slow quenches. The KZM predicts a universal power-law scaling of the defect…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-05-04 Hua-Bi Zeng , Chuan-Yin Xia , Adolfo del Campo

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

The study of dynamics in closed quantum systems has recently been revitalized by the emergence of experimental systems that are well-isolated from their environment. In this paper, we consider the closed-system dynamics of an archetypal…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-03-04 Michael Kolodrubetz , Emanuel Katz , Anatoli Polkovnikov

We give an overview of the scaling of density of quasi-particles and excess energy (heat) for nearly adiabatic dynamics near quantum critical points (QCPs). In particular we discuss both sudden quenches of small amplitude and slow sweeps…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-05-19 Vladimir Gritsev , Anatoli Polkovnikov

The Kibble-Zurek mechanism (KZM) predicts the density of topological defects produced in the dynamical processes of phase transitions in systems ranging from cosmology to condensed matter and quantum materials. The similarity between KZM…

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

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 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

Slow variations (quenches) of the magnetic field across the paramagnetic-ferromagnetic phase transition of spin systems produce heat. In systems with short-range interactions the heat exhibits universal power-law scaling as a function of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-12-19 Nicolo Defenu , Tilman Enss , Michael Kastner , Giovanna Morigi

The Kibble-Zurek mechanism (KZM) predicts that when a system is driven through a continuous phase transition, the density of topological defects scales universally with the quench rate. Recent theoretical work [H.-B. Zeng \textit{et al.},…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-10 Xinxin Rao , Yang Liu , Mingshen Li , Teng Liu , Huabi Zeng , Le Luo

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

Exploiting the universality between the QCD critical point and the three dimensional Ising model, closed form expressions derived (arXiv:1506.00645 ) for non-equilibrium critical cumulants on the crossover side of the critical point reveal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-30 Swagato Mukherjee , Raju Venugopalan , Yi Yin

In a scenario of spontaneous symmetry breaking in finite time, topological defects are generated at a density that scale with the driving time according to the Kibble-Zurek mechanism (KZM). Signatures of universality beyond the KZM have…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-10-12 Fernando J. Gómez-Ruiz , David Subires , Adolfo del Campo