This Colloquium gives an overview of recent theoretical and experimental progress in the
area of nonequilibrium dynamics of isolated quantum systems. There is particularly a focus …

We review recent theoretical work on two closely related issues: excitation of an isolated
quantum condensed matter system driven adiabatically across a continuous quantum phase …

The transverse field Ising and XY models (the simplest quantum spin models) provide the
organising principle for the rich variety of interconnected subjects which are covered in this …

The fiber bundle model describes a collection of elastic fibers under load. The fibers fail
successively and, for each failure, the load distribution among the surviving fibers changes …

The dynamics of quantum phase transitions pose one of the most challenging problems in
modern many-body physics. Here, we study a prototypical example in a clean and well …

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

The dynamics of the Luttinger model after a quantum quench is studied. We compute in
detail one-and two-point correlation functions for two types of quenches: from a …

We study the role of long-range interactions (more precisely, the long-range
superconducting gap term) on the nonequilibrium dynamics considering a long-range p …

We study the slow quenching dynamics (characterized by an inverse rate τ− 1) of a one-
dimensional transverse Ising chain with nearest neighbor ferromagentic interactions across …

We study quenching dynamics of a one-dimensional transverse Ising chain with nearest
neighbor antiferromagnetic interactions in the presence of a longitudinal field which renders …