Kibble-Zurek mechanism in colloidal monolayers

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 22, 2015, Pages 6925-6930

  Deutschländer, Sven ^a   Dillmann, Patrick ^a   Maret, Georg ^a   Keim, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Colloids; Kibble Zurek mechanism; Kthny theory; Nonequilibrium dynamics; Spontaneous symmetry breaking

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLLOID; COOLING; DYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PHASE TRANSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTUM MECHANICS; VELOCITY; VIDEO MICROSCOPY;

EID: 84930958399     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1500763112     Document Type: Article

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