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 …

Kibble-Zurek mechanism for nonequilibrium phase transitions in driven systems with quenched disorder

CJO Reichhardt, A del Campo… - Communications Physics, 2022 - nature.com
We show that the Kibble-Zurek mechanism applies to nonequilibrium phase transitions
found in driven assemblies of superconducting vortices and colloids moving over quenched …

Universal defect density scaling in an oscillating dynamic phase transition

WC Yang, M Tsubota, A del Campo, HB Zeng - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
Universal scaling laws govern the density of topological defects generated while crossing an
equilibrium continuous phase transition. The Kibble-Zurek mechanism (KZM) predicts the …

Kibble-Zurek mechanism beyond adiabaticity: Finite-time scaling with critical initial slip

Y Huang, S Yin, Q Hu, F Zhong - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
The Kibble-Zurek mechanism demands an initial adiabatic stage before an impulse stage to
have a frozen correlation length that generates topological defects in a cooling phase …

Frozen dynamics and synchronization through a secondary symmetry-breaking bifurcation

MA Miranda, J Burguete, H Mancini… - Physical Review E …, 2013 - APS
We show evidence of the frozen dynamics (Kibble-Zurek mechanism) at the transition one-
dimensional (1D) front of an extended 1D array of convective oscillators that undergo a …

Is there Kibble-Zurek scaling of topological defects in first-order phase transitions?

F Zhong - arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.01064, 2025 - arxiv.org
Kibble-Zurek scaling is the scaling of the density of the topological defects formed via the
Kibble-Zurek mechanism with respect to the rate at which a system is cooled across a …

The Kibble–Zurek mechanism in a subcritical bifurcation

MA Miranda, D Laroze… - Journal of Physics …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a study of the freezing dynamics of topological defects in a subcritical system by
testing the Kibble–Zurek (KZ) mechanism while crossing a tri-stable region in a one …

Localized structures in convective experiments

J Burguete, H Mancini - The European Physical Journal Special Topics, 2014 - Springer
In this work we review localized structures appearing in thermo-convective experiments
performed in extended (large “aspect ratio”) fluid layers. After a brief general review (not …

[PDF][PDF] Localized structures in convective experiments

FJ Burguete-Mas, HL Mancini-Maza - 2014 - dadun.unav.edu
In this work we review localized structures appearing in thermo-convective experiments
performed in extended (large “aspect ratio”) fluid layers. After a brief general review (not …

Frozen dynamics and synchronization through a secondary symmetry-breaking bifurcation

FJ Burguete-Mas, W Gonzalez-Viñas, MA Miranda… - 2013 - dadun.unav.edu
We show evidence of the frozen dynamics (Kibble-Zurek mechanism) at the transition one-
dimensional (1D) front of an extended 1D array of convective oscillators that undergo a …