Universal Statistics of Vortices in a Newborn Holographic Superconductor: Beyond the Kibble-Zurek Mechanism
In: J. High Energy Phys. 06, 061 (2021); (2021)
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Traversing a continuous phase transition at a finite rate leads to the breakdown of adiabatic dynamics and the formation of topological defects, as predicted by the celebrated Kibble-Zurek mechanism (KZM). We investigate universal signatures beyond the KZM, by characterizing the distribution of vortices generated in a thermal quench leading to the formation of a holographic superconductor. The full counting statistics of vortices is described by a binomial distribution, in which the mean value is dictated by the KZM and higher-order cumulants share the universal power-law scaling with the quench time. Extreme events associated with large fluctuations no longer exhibit a power-law behavior with the quench time and are characterized by a universal form of the Weibull distribution for different quench rates.
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Universal Statistics of Vortices in a Newborn Holographic Superconductor: Beyond the Kibble-Zurek Mechanism
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | del Campo, Adolfo ; Gómez-Ruiz, Fernando Javier ; Li, Zhi-Hong ; Xia, Chuan-Yin ; Zeng, Hua-Bi ; Zhang, Hai-Qing |
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Quelle: | J. High Energy Phys. 06, 061 (2021); (2021) |
Veröffentlichung: | 2021 |
Medientyp: | report |
DOI: | 10.1007/JHEP06(2021)061 |
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