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cond-mat.stat-mech2026
Rare Events Govern Defect Formation under Weak Symmetry Breaking
Jiang Liu, Peng Yang, Matteo Baggioli
Crossing a continuous phase transition out of equilibrium typically generates topological defects whose density obeys a universal power-law scaling predicted by the Kibble-Zurek me…
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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…