Colloquium: Nonequilibrium dynamics of closed interacting quantum systems

A Polkovnikov, K Sengupta, A Silva… - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2011 - APS
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 …

Dynamics of a quantum phase transition and relaxation to a steady state

J Dziarmaga - Advances in Physics, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
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 …

Failure processes in elastic fiber bundles

S Pradhan, A Hansen, BK Chakrabarti - Reviews of modern physics, 2010 - APS
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 …

Emergence of coherence and the dynamics of quantum phase transitions

S Braun, M Friesdorf, SS Hodgman… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
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 …

Kibble-Zurek problem: Universality and the scaling limit

A Chandran, A Erez, SS Gubser, SL Sondhi - Physical Review B—Condensed …, 2012 - APS
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 …

Quantum quench dynamics of the Luttinger model

A Iucci, MA Cazalilla - Physical Review A—Atomic, Molecular, and Optical …, 2009 - APS
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 …

Slow quenches in a quantum Ising chain: Dynamical phase transitions and topology

S Sharma, U Divakaran, A Polkovnikov, A Dutta - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
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 …

Probing the role of long-range interactions in the dynamics of a long-range Kitaev chain

A Dutta, A Dutta - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
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 …

Topology-induced anomalous defect production by crossing a quantum critical point

A Bermudez, D Patane, L Amico, MA Martin-Delgado - Physical review letters, 2009 - APS
We study the influence of topology on the quench dynamics of a system driven across a
quantum critical point. We show how the appearance of certain edge states, which fully …

Topological phases, Majorana modes and quench dynamics in a spin ladder system

W DeGottardi, D Sen, S Vishveshwara - New Journal of Physics, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
We explore the salient features of the'Kitaev ladder', a two-legged ladder version of the spin-
1/2 Kitaev model on a honeycomb lattice, by mapping it to a one-dimensional fermionic p …