Causality and defect formation in the dynamics of an engineered quantum phase transition in a coupled binary Bose-Einstein condensate

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 14, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Sabbatini, Jacopo ^a   Zurek, Wojciech H ^b   Davis, Matthew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADIABATIC TRANSITIONS; ANISOTROPIC SYSTEM; BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATES; CONTINUOUS PHASE TRANSITIONS; CRITICAL EXPONENT; CRITICAL POINTS; DEFECT FORMATION; DENSITY OF DEFECTS; HOMOGENEOUS SYSTEM; HYPERFINE STATE; INHOMOGENEITIES; NON-EQUILIBRIUM DYNAMICS; ONE DIMENSION; PHYSICAL SYSTEMS; QUANTUM PHASE TRANSITIONS; QUENCH RATE; RANDOM PATTERN; SPATIAL DOMAINS; TOPOLOGICAL DEFECT;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTANCE; NUMERICAL METHODS; PHASE SPACE METHODS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

DEFECTS;

EID: 84868019455     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/14/9/095030     Document Type: Article

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