Spinor Bose gases form a family of quantum fluids manifesting both magnetic order and<?
format?> superfluidity. This article reviews experimental and theoretical progress in …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Kibble-Zurek theory models the dynamics of spontaneous symmetry breaking, which plays
an important role in a wide variety of physical contexts, ranging from cosmology to …

We present two approaches to the dynamics of a quench-induced phase transition in the
quantum Ising model. One follows the standard treatment of thermodynamic second order …

The Quantum Ising model is an exactly solvable model of quantum phase transition. This
Letter gives an exact solution when the system is driven through the critical point at a finite …

Phase transitions are ubiquitous in nature, and can be arranged into universality classes
such that systems having unrelated microscopic physics show identical scaling behaviour …

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 …

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 …