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Quantum criticality emerges from the collective behavior of many interacting quantum particles, often at the transition between different phases of matter. It is one of the cornerstones of condensed matter physics, which we access on noisy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-14 Maxime Dupont , Joel E. Moore

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

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…

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

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

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

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

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

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 analyze mechanisms for universal out-of-equilibrium dynamics near criticality by exploring the effect of randomized quantum resetting (QR) under a finite-time quench across a quantum phase transition. Using the transverse-field Ising…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-03 R. Jafari , Henrik Johannesson , Sebastian Eggert

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

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

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

Kibble-Zurek mechanism (KZM) uses critical scaling to predict density of topological defects and other excitations created in second order phase transitions. We point out that simply inserting asymptotic critical exponents deduced from the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-09-01 Jacek Dziarmaga , Wojciech H. Zurek

Despite very promising results, capturing the dynamics of complex quantum systems with neural-network ans\"atze has been plagued by several problems, one of which being stochastic noise that makes the dynamics unstable and highly dependent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-24 Kaelan Donatella , Zakari Denis , Alexandre Le Boité , Cristiano Ciuti

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 how universal properties of quantum quenches across critical points are modified by a weak coupling to thermal dissipation, focusing on the paradigmatic case of the transverse field Ising model. Beyond the standard quench-induced…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-08-05 P. Nalbach , Smitha Vishveshwara , Aashish A. Clerk

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

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

Exponential complexity of many-body wave functions limits accurate numerical simulations of real-time dynamics, especially beyond 1D, where rapid entanglement growth poses severe challenges. Neural Quantum States (NQS) have emerged as a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Vighnesh Dattatraya Naik , Zheng-Hang Sun , Markus Heyl
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