Universality of phase transition dynamics: Topological defects from symmetry breaking

A Del Campo, WH Zurek - International Journal of Modern Physics …, 2014 - World Scientific
In the course of a nonequilibrium 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 …

Understanding many-body physics in one dimension from the Lieb–Liniger model

YZ Jiang, YY Chen, XW Guan - Chinese Physics B, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
This article presents an elementary introduction on various aspects of the prototypical
integrable model the Lieb–Liniger Bose gas ranging from the cooperative to the collective …

Spontaneous creation of Kibble–Zurek solitons in a Bose–Einstein condensate

G Lamporesi, S Donadello, S Serafini, F Dalfovo… - Nature Physics, 2013 - nature.com
When a system crosses a second-order phase transition on a finite timescale, spontaneous
symmetry breaking can cause the development of domains with independent order …

Quantum phase transition dynamics in the two-dimensional transverse-field Ising model

M Schmitt, MM Rams, J Dziarmaga, M Heyl… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
The quantum Kibble-Zurek mechanism (QKZM) predicts universal dynamical behavior near
the quantum phase transitions (QPTs). It is now well understood for the one-dimensional …

Causality and non-equilibrium second-order phase transitions in inhomogeneous systems

A Del Campo, TWB Kibble… - Journal of Physics …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
When a second-order phase transition is crossed at a finite rate, the evolution of the system
stops being adiabatic as a result of the critical slowing down in the neighborhood of the …

Winding up superfluid in a torus via Bose Einstein condensation

A Das, J Sabbatini, WH Zurek - Scientific reports, 2012 - nature.com
Phase transitions are usually treated as equilibrium phenomena, which yields telltale
universality classes with scaling behavior of relaxation time and healing length. However, in …

Kibble-Zurek mechanism with a single particle: Dynamics of the localization-delocalization transition in the Aubry-André model

A Sinha, MM Rams, J Dziarmaga - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
The Aubry-André one-dimensional lattice model describes a particle hop** in a
pseudorandom potential. Depending on its strength λ, all eigenstates are either localized (λ> …

Observation of atom number fluctuations in a Bose-Einstein condensate

MA Kristensen, MB Christensen, M Gajdacz, M Iglicki… - Physical review …, 2019 - APS
Fluctuations are a key property of both classical and quantum systems. While the
fluctuations are well understood for many quantum systems at zero temperature, the case of …

Tensor network simulation of the quantum Kibble-Zurek quench from the Mott to the superfluid phase in the two-dimensional Bose-Hubbard model

J Dziarmaga, JM Mazur - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
Quantum simulations of the Bose-Hubbard model (BHM) at commensurate filling can follow
spreading of correlations after a sudden quench for times long enough to estimate their …

Space and time renormalization in phase transition dynamics

A Francuz, J Dziarmaga, B Gardas, WH Zurek - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
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 …