Universality regained: Kibble-Zurek dynamics, off-equilibrium scaling and the search for the QCD critical point

Mukherjee, Swagato; Venugopalan, Raju; Yin, Yi

doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2017.06.049

Title: Universality regained: Kibble-Zurek dynamics, off-equilibrium scaling and the search for the QCD critical point

Abstract

We generalize and apply the key elements of the Kibble-Zurek framework of non-equilibrium phase transitions to study the non-equilibrium critical cumulants near the QCD critical point. We demonstrate that the off-equilibrium critical cumulants are expressible as universal scaling functions. Moreover, we discuss how to use off-equilibrium scaling to provide powerful model-independent guidance in searches for the QCD critical point.

Authors:

Mukherjee, Swagato ^[1]; Venugopalan, Raju ^[1]; Yin, Yi ^[2]

Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)

Publication Date:: Wed Nov 01 00:00:00 EDT 2017

Research Org.:: Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States); Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)

OSTI Identifier:: 1501429

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0011090

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: Nuclear Physics. A

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 967; Journal Issue: C; Journal ID: ISSN 0375-9474

Publisher:: Elsevier

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS; QCD critical point; critical fluctuations; non-Gaussian cumulants; critical slowing down

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                    Mukherjee, Swagato, Venugopalan, Raju, and Yin, Yi. Universality regained: Kibble-Zurek dynamics, off-equilibrium scaling and the search for the QCD critical point.  United States: N. p., 2017. 
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                    Mukherjee, Swagato, Venugopalan, Raju, & Yin, Yi. Universality regained: Kibble-Zurek dynamics, off-equilibrium scaling and the search for the QCD critical point.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2017.06.049

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"Universality regained: Kibble-Zurek dynamics, off-equilibrium scaling and the search for the QCD critical point".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2017.06.049.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1501429.

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@article{osti_1501429,

  title        = {Universality regained: Kibble-Zurek dynamics, off-equilibrium scaling and the search for the QCD critical point},

  author       = {Mukherjee, Swagato and Venugopalan, Raju and Yin, Yi},

  abstractNote = {We generalize and apply the key elements of the Kibble-Zurek framework of non-equilibrium phase transitions to study the non-equilibrium critical cumulants near the QCD critical point. We demonstrate that the off-equilibrium critical cumulants are expressible as universal scaling functions. Moreover, we discuss how to use off-equilibrium scaling to provide powerful model-independent guidance in searches for the QCD critical point.},

  doi          = {10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2017.06.049},

  journal      = {Nuclear Physics. A},

  number       = C,

  volume       = 967,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Wed Nov 01 00:00:00 EDT 2017},

  month        = {Wed Nov 01 00:00:00 EDT 2017}

}

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