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 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 show that when a quantum many-body system is subjected to coherent periodic driving,
the response may exhibit exotic freezing behavior in high driving frequency (ω) regime. In a …

We consider a quantum quench in a system of free bosons, starting from a thermal initial
state. As in the case where the system is initially in the ground state, any finite subsystem …

When a system is driven across a quantum critical point at a constant rate, its evolution must
become nonadiabatic as the relaxation time τ diverges at the critical point. According to the …

Equilibrium statistical mechanics rests on the assumption of chaotic dynamics of a system
modulo the conservation laws of local observables: extremization of entropy immediately …

We investigate the emergence of universal dynamical scaling in quantum critical spin
systems adiabatically driven out of equilibrium, with emphasis on quench dynamics which …

We show that the correlation functions of a class of periodically driven integrable closed
quantum systems approach their steady-state value as n−(α+ 1)/β, where n is the number of …

Does a closed quantum many-body system that is continually driven with a time-dependent
Hamiltonian finally reach a steady state? This question has only recently been answered for …