Critical dynamics of a two-dimensional superfluid near a nonthermal fixed point

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Output type: Journal article

Author list: Schole J, Nowak B, Gasenzer T

Publisher: American Physical Society

Publication year: 2012

Journal: Physical Review A (1050-2947)

Volume number: 86

Issue number: 1

ISSN: 1050-2947

eISSN: 1094-1622

Languages: English-Great Britain (EN-GB)

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Open access status: green

Full text URL: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1204.2487

Abstract

Critical dynamics of an ultracold Bose gas far from equilibrium is studied in two spatial dimensions. Superfluid turbulence is created by quenching the equilibrium state close to zero temperature. Instead of immediately rethermalizing, the system approaches a meta-stable transient state, characterized as a nonthermal fixed point. A focus is set on the vortex density and vortex-antivortex correlations which characterize the evolution towards the nonthermal fixed point and the departure to final (quasi-)condensation. Two distinct power-law regimes in the vortex-density decay are found and discussed in terms of a vortex unbinding process and a kinetic description of vortex scattering. A possible relation to decaying turbulence in classical fluids is pointed out. By comparing the results to equilibrium studies of a two-dimensional Bose gas, an intuitive understanding of the location of the nonthermal fixed point in a reduced phase space is developed.

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