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arXiv:1810.11424 · Physical Review Letters

Dynamical Phase Transition from Nonequilibrium Dynamics of Dark Solitons

Minyong Guo, Esko Keski-Vakkuri, Hong Liu, Yu Peng Tian, Hongbao Zhang

Published Jan 21, 2020• 27 citations
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Abstract

By holographic duality, we identify a novel dynamical phase transition which results from the temperature dependence of nonequilibrium dynamics of dark solitons in a superfluid. For a nonequilibrium superfluid system with an initial density of dark solitons, there exists a critical temperature T_{d}, above which the system relaxes to equilibrium by producing sound waves, while below which it goes through an intermediate phase with a finite density of vortex-antivortex pairs. In particular, as T_{d} is approached from below, the density of vortex pairs scales as (T_{d}-T)^{γ} with the critical exponent γ=1/2.

DOI
10.1103/physrevlett.124.031601

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