Finite-time Scaling with Arbitrary Driving Rates: Bridging the Kibble-Zurek and De Grandi-Gritsev-Polkovnikov Limits (opens in new tab)

The pursuit of a universal description for nonequilibrium critical dynamics in quantum many-body systems stands as a central frontier in modern statistical physics. For driven critical dynamics starting far from the critical point, the well-known Kibble-Zurek (KZ) scaling holds only when the driving rate lies below an upper bound. Here we study driven dynamics restricted to the critical region, and show that robust dynamic scaling behavior exist...