Abstract
The Kibble–Zurek (KZ) mechanism, the paradigmatic theory addressing nonequilibrium dynamics involving continuous phase transitions, has played a key role throughout this thesis.
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- Nonequilibrium Dynamics
- Quantum Rabi Model
- Parity Subspace
- Quantum Many-body Systems
- Classical Phase Transitions
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Recall that the upper critical dimension is defined as the spatial dimension of a system after which the mean field description becomes exact. For the nearest-neighbors Ising model \(d_U=4\).
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Puebla, R. (2018). Quantum Kibble–Zurek Mechanism. In: Equilibrium and Nonequilibrium Aspects of Phase Transitions in Quantum Physics. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00653-2_6
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