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The nonequilibrium dynamics of a periodically driven extended XY model, in the presence of linear time dependent magnetic filed, is investigated using the notion of dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs). Along the similar lines to the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-05-27 Sara Zamani , J. Naji , R. Jafari , A. Langari

We investigate the statistics of the work performed during a quench across a quantum phase transition using the adiabatic perturbation theory. It is shown that all the cumulants of work exhibit universal scaling behavior analogous to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-06 Zhaoyu Fei , Nahuel Freitas , Vasco Cavina , H. T. Quan , Massimiliano Esposito

The formation of topological defects during continuous second-order phase transitions is well described by the Kibble-Zurek mechanism (KZM). However, when the spontaneously broken symmetry is only approximate, such transitions become smooth…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-06 Peng Yang , Chuan-Yin Xia , Sebastian Grieninger , Hua-Bi Zeng , Matteo Baggioli

Recently, the driven dynamics of localization phase transitions have garnered growing interest. However, studies so far have mainly considered initial localized states, whose driven dynamics follow the Kibble-Zurek mechanism (KZM). In this…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-09-09 Xin-Yu Wang , Wen-Jing Yu , Yue-Mei Sun , Liang-Jun Zhai

When a system is swept through a quantum critical point (QCP), the Kibble-Zurek mechanism predicts that the average number of topological defects follows a universal power-law scaling with the ramp time scale. This scaling behavior is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-19 R. Jafari , Alireza Akbari

We investigate the nonequilibrium dynamics of quantum spin chains during a round-trip protocol that slowly drives the system across a quantum first-order transition. Out-of-equilibrium scaling behaviors \`a la Kibble-Zurek for the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-09-27 Francesco Tarantelli , Stefano Scopa

We analyze quantum systems under a broad class of protocols in which the temperature and a Hamiltonian control parameter are ramped simultaneously and, in general, in a nonlinear fashion toward a quantum critical point. Using an open-system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Johannes N. Kriel , Emma C. King , Michael Kastner

We consider a one-dimensional classical ferromagnetic Ising model when it is quenched from a low temperature to zero temperature in finite time using Glauber or Kawasaki dynamics. Most of the previous work on finite-time quenches assume…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-01-10 Lakshita Jindal , Kavita Jain

When matter undergoes a continuous phase transition on a finite timescale, the Kibble-Zurek mechanism predicts universal scaling behavior with respect to structure formation. The scaling is dependent on the universality class and is…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-02-07 Yiping Chen , Munekazu Horikoshi , Kosuke Yoshioka , Makoto Kuwata-Gonokami

We address the out-of-equilibrium dynamics of many-body systems subject to slow time-dependent round-trip protocols across quantum and classical (thermal) phase transitions. We consider protocols where one relevant parameter w is slowly…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-06-29 Francesco Tarantelli , Ettore Vicari

Topological defects shape the material and transport properties of physical systems. Examples range from vortex lines in quantum superfluids, defect-mediated buckling of graphene, and grain boundaries in ferromagnets and colloidal crystals,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-03-23 Norbert Stoop , Jörn Dunkel

A description of the Kibble-Zurek mechanism with linear response theory has been done previously, but ad hoc hypotheses were used, like the use of the rate-dependent impulse window via the Zurek equation in the context of no driving in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-09 Pierre Nazé

Kibble-Zurek theory (KZ) stands out as the most robust theory of defect generation in the dynamics of phase transitions. KZ utilizes the structure of equilibrium states away from the transition point to estimate the excitations due to the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-07-28 Krishanu Roychowdhury , Roderich Moessner , Arnab Das

We study the nonequilibrium driven dynamics at topologically nontrivial quantum critical points (QCPs), and find that topological edge modes at criticality give rise to anomalous dynamical scaling behavior. By analyzing the driven dynamics…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-21 Menghua Deng , Sheng Yang , Chen Sun , Fuxiang Li , Xue-Jia Yu

The Kibble-Zurek mechanism (KZM) captures the essential physics of nonequilibrium quantum phase transitions with symmetry breaking. KZM predicts a universal scaling power law for the defect density which is fully determined by the system's…

In this paper we study the driven critical dynamics in the three-state quantum chiral clock model. This is motivated by a recent experiment, which verified the Kibble-Zurek mechanism and the finite-time scaling in a reconfigurable…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-05-22 Rui-Zhen Huang , Shuai Yin

Kibble-Zurek mechanism is widely known to appear in the transverse-field quantum Ising chain in the thermodynamic limit at zero temperature, having notorious characteristics, like the divergence of its relaxation time. In this work, I…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-03 Pierre Nazé

We study the nonadiabatic dynamics of a two-dimensional higher-order topological insulator when the system is slowly quenched across the boundary-obstructed phase transition, which is characterized by edge band gap closing. We find that the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-07-29 Menghua Deng , Zhoujian Sun , Fuxiang Li

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,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-12 Oriel Kiss , Daniil Teplitskiy , Michele Grossi , Antonio Mandarino

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