Symmetry Breaking with a Slant: Topological Defects after an Inhomogeneous Quench
Journal Article
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· Physical Review Letters
- Institute of Physics, Jagiellonian University, Reymonta 4, 30-059 Krakow (Poland)
- Department Astronomy Astrophysics and CGPG, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802 (United States)
- Theoretical Astrophysics T-6, MS-B288, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545 (United States)
We show that in second-order phase transformations that are induced by an inhomogeneous quench the density of topological defects is drastically suppressed as the velocity with which the quench propagates falls below a threshold velocity. This threshold is approximately given by the ratio of the healing length to relaxation time at freeze-out, which is the instant when the critical slowing down results in a transition from the adiabatic to the impulse behavior of the order parameter. {copyright} {ital 1999} {ital The American Physical Society}
- Research Organization:
- Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-36
- OSTI ID:
- 345443
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review Letters, Vol. 82, Issue 24; Other Information: PBD: Jun 1999
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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