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The Kibble-Zurek mechanism demands an initial adiabatic stage before an impulse stage to have a frozen correlation length that generates topological defects in a cooling phase transition. Here we study such a driven critical dynamics but…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-01-19 Yingyi Huang , Shuai Yin , Qijun Hu , Fan Zhong

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 Kibble-Zurek (KZ) mechanism has been extensively studied in various second-order phase transitions, yet the case of tricriticality-the point where second-order phase transition lines terminate-remains experimentally elusive. Here, we…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-12-02 Hanteng Wang , Xingyu Li , Chengshu Li

The conventional Kibble-Zurek (KZ) mechanism, describing driven dynamics across critical points based on the adiabatic-impulse scenario (AIS), have attracted broad attentions. However, the driven dynamics in tricritical point with two…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-20 Ting-Long Wang , Yi-Fan Jiang , Shuai Yin

Near a critical point, the equilibrium relaxation time of a system diverges and any change of control/thermodynamic parameters leads to non-equilibrium behavior. The Kibble-Zurek problem is to determine the dynamical evolution of the system…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-09-20 Anushya Chandran , Amir Erez , Steven S. Gubser , S. L. Sondhi

Geometric quantum speed limits quantify the trade-off between the rate with which quantum states can change and the resources that are expended during the evolution. Counterdiabatic driving is a unique tool from shortcuts to adiabaticity to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-29 Ricardo Puebla , Sebastian Deffner , Steve Campbell

The Kibble-Zurek mechanism captures universality when a system is driven through a continuous phase transition. Here we study the dynamical aspect of quantum phase transitions in the Ising Field Theory where the critical point can be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-11-04 Kristóf Hódsági , Márton Kormos

We study the driven critical dynamics with an equilibrium initial state near a quantum critical point. In contrast to the original Kibble-Zurek mechanism, which describes the driven dynamics starting from an adiabatic stage that is far from…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-29 Shuai Yin , Chung-Yu Lo , Pochung Chen

An analytically solvable model for quasi-static transformations across quantum critical points featuring Bosonic quasi-particle excitations is presented. The model proves that adiabaticity breakdown is a general feature of universal slow…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 Nicolò Defenu

We revisit the Kibble-Zurek mechanism by analyzing the dynamics of phase ordering systems during an infinitely slow annealing across a second order phase transition. We elucidate the time and cooling rate dependence of the typical growing…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-05-29 Giulio Biroli , Leticia F. Cugliandolo , Alberto Sicilia

In the course of a non-equilibrium continuous phase transition, the dynamics ceases to be adiabatic in the vicinity of the critical point as a result of the critical slowing down (the divergence of the relaxation time in the neighborhood of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-06-03 Adolfo del Campo , Wojciech H. Zurek

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

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

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…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-02-15 Yingyi Huang , Shuai Yin , Baoquan Feng , Fan Zhong

When a system is driven across a second-order quantum phase transition, the number of defects which are produced scales with the speed of the variation of the tuning parameter according to a universal law described by the Kibble-Zurek…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-03-29 Gianluca Francica , Luca Dell'Anna

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

The Kibble-Zurek mechanism describes defect production due to non-adiabatic passage through a critical point. Here we study its variant from ramping the environment temperature to a critical point. We find that the defect density scales as…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-07-07 Á. Bácsi , B. Dóra

When a classical system is driven through a continuous phase transition, its nonequilibrium response is universal and exhibits Kibble-Zurek scaling. We explore this dynamical scaling in the novel context of a three-dimensional topological…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-06-29 James Hamp , Anushya Chandran , Roderich Moessner , Claudio Castelnovo

We uncover an aspect of the Kibble--Zurek phenomenology, according to which the spectrum of critical exponents of a classical or quantum phase transition is revealed, by driving the system slowly in directions parallel to the phase…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-02-14 Steven Mathey , Sebastian Diehl

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
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