Critical and near-critical relaxation of holographic superfluids

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Main Authors: Flory, Mario, Grieninger, Sebastian, Morales-Tejera, Sergio
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author Flory, Mario
Grieninger, Sebastian
Morales-Tejera, Sergio
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Grieninger, Sebastian
Morales-Tejera, Sergio
contents We investigate the relaxation of holographic superfluids after quenches, when the end state is either tuned to be exactly at the critical point, or very close to it. By solving the bulk equations of motion numerically, we demonstrate that in the former case the system exhibits a power law falloff as well as an emergent discrete scale invariance. The later case is in the regime dominated by critical slowing down, and we show that there is an intermediate time-range before the onset of late time exponential falloff, where the system behaves similarly to the critical point with its power law falloff. We further postulate a phenomenological Gross-Pitaevskii-like equation that is able to make quantitative predictions for the behavior of the holographic superfluid after near-critical quenches. Intriguingly, all parameters of our phenomenological equation which describes the non-linear time evolution may be fixed with information from the static equilibrium solutions and linear response theory.
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spellingShingle Critical and near-critical relaxation of holographic superfluids
Flory, Mario
Grieninger, Sebastian
Morales-Tejera, Sergio
High Energy Physics - Theory
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
We investigate the relaxation of holographic superfluids after quenches, when the end state is either tuned to be exactly at the critical point, or very close to it. By solving the bulk equations of motion numerically, we demonstrate that in the former case the system exhibits a power law falloff as well as an emergent discrete scale invariance. The later case is in the regime dominated by critical slowing down, and we show that there is an intermediate time-range before the onset of late time exponential falloff, where the system behaves similarly to the critical point with its power law falloff. We further postulate a phenomenological Gross-Pitaevskii-like equation that is able to make quantitative predictions for the behavior of the holographic superfluid after near-critical quenches. Intriguingly, all parameters of our phenomenological equation which describes the non-linear time evolution may be fixed with information from the static equilibrium solutions and linear response theory.
title Critical and near-critical relaxation of holographic superfluids
topic High Energy Physics - Theory
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.09251