Dynamical evolution of spinodal decomposition in holographic superfluids
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| author | Zhao, Xin Zhao, Zi-Qiang Nie, Zhang-Yu Zeng, Hua-Bi Tian, Yu Baggioli, Matteo |
| author_facet | Zhao, Xin Zhao, Zi-Qiang Nie, Zhang-Yu Zeng, Hua-Bi Tian, Yu Baggioli, Matteo |
| contents | We study the nonlinear dynamical evolution of spinodal decomposition in a first-order superfluid phase transition using a simple holographic model in the probe limit. We first confirm the linear stability analysis based on quasinormal modes and verify the existence of a critical length scale related to a gradient instability -- negative speed of sound squared -- of the superfluid sound mode, which is a consequence of a negative thermodynamic charge susceptibility. We present a comparison between our case and the standard Cahn-Hilliard equation for spinodal instability, in which a critical length scale can be also derived based on a diffusive instability. We then perform several numerical tests which include the nonlinear time evolution directly from an unstable state and fast quenches from a stable to an unstable state in the spinodal region. Our numerical results provide a real time description of spinodal decomposition and phase separation in one and two spatial dimensions. We reveal the existence of four different stages in the dynamical evolution, and characterize their main properties. Finally, we investigate the strength of dynamical heterogeneity using the spatial variance of the local chemical potential and we correlate the latter to other features of the dynamical evolution. |
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| spellingShingle | Dynamical evolution of spinodal decomposition in holographic superfluids Zhao, Xin Zhao, Zi-Qiang Nie, Zhang-Yu Zeng, Hua-Bi Tian, Yu Baggioli, Matteo High Energy Physics - Theory We study the nonlinear dynamical evolution of spinodal decomposition in a first-order superfluid phase transition using a simple holographic model in the probe limit. We first confirm the linear stability analysis based on quasinormal modes and verify the existence of a critical length scale related to a gradient instability -- negative speed of sound squared -- of the superfluid sound mode, which is a consequence of a negative thermodynamic charge susceptibility. We present a comparison between our case and the standard Cahn-Hilliard equation for spinodal instability, in which a critical length scale can be also derived based on a diffusive instability. We then perform several numerical tests which include the nonlinear time evolution directly from an unstable state and fast quenches from a stable to an unstable state in the spinodal region. Our numerical results provide a real time description of spinodal decomposition and phase separation in one and two spatial dimensions. We reveal the existence of four different stages in the dynamical evolution, and characterize their main properties. Finally, we investigate the strength of dynamical heterogeneity using the spatial variance of the local chemical potential and we correlate the latter to other features of the dynamical evolution. |
| title | Dynamical evolution of spinodal decomposition in holographic superfluids |
| topic | High Energy Physics - Theory |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.08277 |