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 …

The Kibble–Zurek mechanism describes the evolution of topological defect structures like
domain walls, strings, and monopoles when a system is driven through a second-order …

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 scaling laws govern the density of topological defects generated while crossing an
equilibrium continuous phase transition. The Kibble-Zurek mechanism (KZM) predicts the …

We study the off-equilibrium behavior of systems with short-range interactions, slowly driven
across a thermal first-order transition, where the equilibrium dynamics is exponentially slow …

We consider the dynamical off-equilibrium behavior of the three-dimensional O (N) vector
model in the presence of a slowly varying time-dependent spatially uniform magnetic field H …

When applying two counterpropagating laser beams to a cold cloud of rubidium atoms, we
observe the spontaneous formation of intensity patterns associated with a spatial …

We investigate the critical phenomena emerging from a statistical mechanics model of
musical harmony on a three-dimensional (3D) lattice, and the resulting structure of the …

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 …

We study off-equilibrium behaviors at first-order transitions (FOTs) driven by a time
dependence of the temperature across the transition point T c, such as the linear behavior T …