2 papers
cond-mat.stat-mech2026
Kibble--Zurek Mechanism and Defect Freezing in Imbalanced-Pairing Kitaev Models
R. Jafari, Alireza Akbari, Shukhrat Mardonov +1
We investigate driven dynamics across critical and exceptional points in the one- and two-dimensional imbalanced-pairing Kitaev models using both the wave-function normalization ap…
quant-ph2026
Dissipation-Induced Deviations from Kibble-Zurek Scaling in Non-Hermitian Quantum Annealing
H. Najafzadeh, S. Sadeghizade, R. Jafari +1
We revisit the quantum annealing problem in the non-Hermitian transverse-field Ising model. We determine, both analytically and numerically, the intrinsic transition probabilities…