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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

In this paper, we systematically study the work statistics for quantum phase transition. For a quantum system approached by an anisotropic conformal field theory near the critical point, the driving protocols is divided into three different…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-05-05 Zhaoyu Fei , C. P. Sun

We investigate the quench dynamics of an open quantum system involving a quantum phase transition. In the isolated case, the quench dynamics involving the phase transition exhibits a number of scaling relations with the quench rate as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-15 Ricardo Puebla , Andrea Smirne , Susana F. Huelga , Martin B. Plenio

Quantum quenches display universal scaling in several regimes. For quenches which start from a gapped phase and cross a critical point, with a rate slow compared to the initial gap, many systems obey Kibble-Zurek scaling. More recently, a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-06-14 Sumit R. Das , Damian A. Galante , Robert C. Myers

Global quantum quench with a finite quench rate which crosses critical points is known to lead to universal scaling of correlation functions as functions of the quench rate. In this work, we explore scaling properties of the entanglement…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 Pawel Caputa , Sumit R. Das , Masahiro Nozaki , Akio Tomiya

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

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

When a quantum phase transition is crossed in finite time, critical slowing down leads to the breakdown of adiabatic dynamics and the formation of topological defects. The average density of defects scales with the quench rate following a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-26 Adolfo del Campo

We study the universality of work statistics of a system quenched through a quantum critical surface. By using the adiabatic perturbation theory, we obtain the general scaling behavior for all cumulants of work. These results extend the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-02-16 Fan Zhang , H. T. Quan

Taking the quantum Kitaev chain as an example, we have studied the universal dynamical behaviors resulting from quantum criticality under the condition of environmental temperature quench. Our findings reveal that when the quantum parameter…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Chengxiang Ding , Long Zhang

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

Universal scaling laws govern the density of topological defects generated while crossing an equilibrium continuous phase transition. The Kibble-Zurek mechanism (KZM) predicts the dependence on the quench time for slow quenches. By…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-12-07 Wei-can Yang , Makoto Tsubota , Adolfo del Campo , Hua-Bi Zeng

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

When an external parameter drives a system across a quantum phase transition at a finite rate, work is performed on the system and entropy is dissipated, due to the creation of excitations via the Kibble-Zurek mechanism. Although both the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-09 Zhanyu Ma , Andrew K. Mitchell , Eran Sela

In the nonadiabatic dynamics across a quantum phase transition, the Kibble-Zurek mechanism predicts that the formation of topological defects is suppressed as a universal power law with the quench time. In inhomogeneous systems, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-05 F. J. Gómez-Ruiz , A. 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

Understanding how noise influences nonequilibrium quantum critical dynamics is essential for both fundamental physics and the development of practical quantum technologies. While the quantum Kibble-Zurek (QKZ) mechanism predicts universal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Brendan Rhyno , Swarnadeep Majumder , Smitha Vishveshwara , Khadijeh Najafi

Quasi-static transformations, or slow quenches, of many-body quantum systems across quantum critical points create topological defects. The Kibble-Zurek mechanism regulates the appearance of defects in a local quantum system through a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-16 Stefano Gherardini , Lorenzo Buffoni , Nicolò Defenu

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

According to the Kibble-Zurek mechanism, there is a universal power-law relationship between the defect density and the quench rate during a slow linear quench through a critical point. It is generally accepted that a fast quench results in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-22 Han-Chuan Kou , Peng Li
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