https://OkongOyangO.github.io/OkongOyangO.JournalClub/tags/nonequilibrium-dynamics/Recent content in Nonequilibrium Dynamics on Condensed Matter🍩 + AI🤖 Journal Club🎓Hugoenyzj5306@psu.edu (Yiyang Jiang)yzj5306@psu.edu (Yiyang Jiang)Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:00:00 -0400https://OkongOyangO.github.io/OkongOyangO.JournalClub/posts/2026-07-droplet-dynamics-dynamical-phase-transition/Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:00:00 -0400yzj5306@psu.edu (Yiyang Jiang)https://OkongOyangO.github.io/OkongOyangO.JournalClub/posts/2026-07-droplet-dynamics-dynamical-phase-transition/<table> <thead> <tr> <th></th> <th></th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td><strong>Presenter</strong></td> <td>Xiao Wang (Prof. Eun-Ah Kim&rsquo;s group, Cornell University)</td> </tr> <tr> <td><strong>Date</strong></td> <td>July 15, 2026 · 2:00–3:00 PM</td> </tr> <tr> <td><strong>Location</strong></td> <td>Davey 339</td> </tr> <tr> <td><strong>Topic</strong></td> <td>Dynamical phase transition in droplet dynamics</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p>Xiao Wang (Cornell, Eun-Ah Kim group) introduces <em>droplet dynamics</em> — a compact spatial block of local excitations or defect insertions embedded in a much larger quantum background — and shows how it realizes a universal class of unconventional dynamical transitions, identified as dynamical Gross–Witten–Wadia transitions, in both the XX/free-fermion and transverse-field Ising chains.</p>