The relaxation of isolated quantum many-body systems is a major unsolved problem
connecting statistical and quantum physics. Studying such relaxation processes remains a …

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

The many-body physics at quantum phase transitions shows a subtle interplay between
quantum and thermal fluctuations, emerging in the low-temperature limit. In this review, we …

We review the recent progress in the understanding of the relaxation of isolated near-
integrable quantum many-body systems. Focusing on prethermalization and universal …

A shortcut to adiabaticity is a driving protocol that reproduces in a short time the same final
state that would result from an adiabatic, infinitely slow process. A powerful technique to …

Phase transitions are ubiquitous in our three-dimensional world. By contrast, most
conventional transitions do not occur in infinite uniform low-dimensional systems because of …

We create supercurrents in annular two-dimensional Bose gases through a temperature
quench of the normal-to-superfluid phase transition. We detect the magnitude and the …

The dynamics of quantum phase transitions pose one of the most challenging problems in
modern many-body physics. Here, we study a prototypical example in a clean and well …

We study the nonequilibrium time evolution of a variety of one-dimensional (1D) and two-
dimensional (2D) systems (including SSH model, Kitaev-chain, Haldane model, p+ ip …