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We explore quantum criticality and Kibble-Zurek scaling (KZS) in the Aubry-Andre-Stark (AAS) model, where the Stark field of strength $\varepsilon$ is added onto the one-dimensional quasiperiodic lattice. We perform scaling analysis and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-05-29 En-Wen Liang , Ling-Zhi Tang , Dan-Wei Zhang

We investigate an extension of the quantum Ising model in one spatial dimension including long-range $1 / r^{\alpha}$ interactions in its statics and dynamics with possible applications from heteronuclear polar molecules in optical lattices…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-09-15 Daniel Jaschke , Kenji Maeda , Joseph D. Whalen , Michael L. Wall , Lincoln D. Carr

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 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

Quantum phase transitions are characterised by the universal scaling laws in the critical region surrounding the transitions. This universality is also manifested in the critical real-time dynamics through the quantum Kibble-Zurek…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Jose Soto Garcia , Natalia Chepiga

In this work, we explore the driven dynamics of the one-dimensional ($1$D) localization transitions. By linearly changing the strength of disorder potential, we calculate the evolution of the localization length $\xi$ and the inverse…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-03-15 Xuan Bu , Liang-Jun Zhai , 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

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

State-of-the-art tensor networks are employed to simulate the Hamiltonian ramp in the analog-digital quantum simulation of the quantum phase transition to the quasi-long-range ordered phase of the two-dimensional square-lattice $XX$ model…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-13 Yintai Zhang , Francis A. Bayocboc , Jacek Dziarmaga

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

We study the quantum Ising model in the transverse inhomogeneous magnetic field. Such a system can be approached numerically through exact diagonalization and analytically through the renormalization group techniques. Basic insights into…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-11-22 Mateusz Łącki , Bogdan Damski

We use tensor network methods - Matrix Product States, Tree Tensor Networks, and Locally Purified Tensor Networks - to simulate the one dimensional Bose-Hubbard model for zero and finite temperatures in experimentally accessible regimes. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-12 Werner Weiss , Matthias Gerster , Daniel Jaschke , Pietro Silvi , Simone Montangero

Nonequilibrium many-body physics is one of the core problems in modern physics, while the dynamical scaling from a gapless phase to the critical point is a most important challenge with very few knowledge so far. In the driven dynamics with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-17 Zhe Wang , Chengxiang Ding , Dongxu Liu , Fuxiang Li , Zheng Yan , Shuai Yin

The Aubry-Andr\'e 1D lattice model describes a particle hopping in a pseudo-random potential. Depending on its strength $\lambda$, all eigenstates are either localized ($\lambda>1$) or delocalized ($\lambda<1$). Near the transition, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-03-22 Aritra Sinha , Marek M. Rams , Jacek Dziarmaga

If a system is driven at finite-rate through a phase transition by varying an intensive parameter, the order parameter shatters into finite domains. The Kibble-Zurek mechanism predicts the typical size of these domains, which are governed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-11-20 Sebastian Deffner

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

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

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 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

We study the driven dynamics across the critical points of the Yang-Lee edge singularities (YLESes) in a finite-size quantum Ising chain with an imaginary symmetry-breaking field. In contrast to the conventional classical or quantum phase…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-02-14 Shuai Yin , Guang-Yao Huang , Chung-Yu Lo , Pochung Chen
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