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Rare Events Govern Defect Formation under Weak Symmetry Breaking
Jiang Liu, Peng Yang, Matteo Baggioli
The paper explains how rare fluctuations, analyzed via large‑deviation theory, control the formation of topological defects when a continuous phase transition occurs under weak exp…
Three-stage melting of a macroscopic continuous spacetime crystal
Guoqing Liu, Jimin Bai, Matteo Baggioli +1
A spacetime crystal is a phase of matter that spontaneously develops periodic order in both space and time. Spacetime crystals have been experimentally observed in microscopic quan…
Nonequilibrium steady states in driven holographic Weyl semi-metals
Matteo Baggioli, Sebastian Grieninger, James Stokes
Three-dimensional Weyl materials provide a controlled setting for exploring Floquet dynamics in open quantum systems, including nonequilibrium steady states (NESS). Motivated by th…
Topological Defect Formation Beyond the Kibble-Zurek Mechanism in Crossover Transitions with Approximate Symmetries
Peng Yang, Chuan-Yin Xia, Sebastian Grieninger +2
The formation of topological defects during continuous second-order phase transitions is well described by the Kibble-Zurek mechanism (KZM). However, when the spontaneously broken…
Dissipation induced elastic-mode instability with topological excitation in holographic non-equilibrium steady cnoidal wave supersolid
Peng Yang, Yu Tian, Matteo Baggioli
The possible existence of an exotic phase of matter rigid like a solid but able to sustain persistent and dissipation-less flow like a superfluid, a "supersolid", has been the subj…