The quantum Kibble-Zurek mechanism: the role of boundary conditions, endpoints and kink types

arXiv:2412.20186 · quant-ph, cond-mat.str-el · Submitted 2024-12-28 · Read on arXiv

quant-ph, cond-mat.str-el

Submitted: 2024-12-28

Updated: 2026-04-18

Terminology

• Domain Walls — 10× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 8× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Phase Transitions — 8× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Topological Defects — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generalization — 3× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Entanglement — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Entanglement Entropy — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Robustness — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Scaling Laws — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Symmetry Breaking — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Dynamical regimes — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Hilbert Space — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Universality Class — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Quantum and classical coarsening and their interplay with the Kibble-Zurek mechanism
• Kibble Zurek mechanism in rapidly quenched phase transition dynamics

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