Kibble-Zurek Mechanism and Beyond: Lessons from a Holographic Superfluid Disk

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Autores principales: Xia, Chuan-Yin, Zeng, Hua-Bi, Grabarits, András, del Campo, Adolfo
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author Xia, Chuan-Yin
Zeng, Hua-Bi
Grabarits, András
del Campo, Adolfo
author_facet Xia, Chuan-Yin
Zeng, Hua-Bi
Grabarits, András
del Campo, Adolfo
contents The superfluid phase transition dynamics and associated spontaneous vortex formation with the crossing of the critical temperature in a disk geometry is studied in the framework of the $AdS/CFT$ correspondence by solving the Einstein-Abelian-Higgs model in an $AdS_4$ black hole. For a slow quench, the vortex density admits a universal scaling law with the cooling rate as predicted by the Kibble-Zurek mechanism (KZM), while for fast quenches, the density shows a universal scaling behavior as a function of the final temperature, that lies beyond the KZM prediction. The vortex number distribution in both the power-law and saturation regimes can be approximated by a normal distribution. However, the study of the universal scaling of the cumulants reveals non-normal features and indicates that vortex statistics in the newborn superfluid is best described by the Poisson binomial distribution, previously predicted in the KZM regime [Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 240602 (2020)]. This is confirmed by studying the cumulant scalings as a function of the quench time and the quench depth. Our work supports the existence of a universal defect number distribution that accommodates the KZM scaling, its breakdown at fast quenches, and the additional universal scaling laws as a function of the final value of the control parameter.
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spellingShingle Kibble-Zurek Mechanism and Beyond: Lessons from a Holographic Superfluid Disk
Xia, Chuan-Yin
Zeng, Hua-Bi
Grabarits, András
del Campo, Adolfo
Statistical Mechanics
Quantum Gases
High Energy Physics - Theory
Quantum Physics
The superfluid phase transition dynamics and associated spontaneous vortex formation with the crossing of the critical temperature in a disk geometry is studied in the framework of the $AdS/CFT$ correspondence by solving the Einstein-Abelian-Higgs model in an $AdS_4$ black hole. For a slow quench, the vortex density admits a universal scaling law with the cooling rate as predicted by the Kibble-Zurek mechanism (KZM), while for fast quenches, the density shows a universal scaling behavior as a function of the final temperature, that lies beyond the KZM prediction. The vortex number distribution in both the power-law and saturation regimes can be approximated by a normal distribution. However, the study of the universal scaling of the cumulants reveals non-normal features and indicates that vortex statistics in the newborn superfluid is best described by the Poisson binomial distribution, previously predicted in the KZM regime [Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 240602 (2020)]. This is confirmed by studying the cumulant scalings as a function of the quench time and the quench depth. Our work supports the existence of a universal defect number distribution that accommodates the KZM scaling, its breakdown at fast quenches, and the additional universal scaling laws as a function of the final value of the control parameter.
title Kibble-Zurek Mechanism and Beyond: Lessons from a Holographic Superfluid Disk
topic Statistical Mechanics
Quantum Gases
High Energy Physics - Theory
Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.09433