Non-thermal fixed points and solitons in a one-dimensional Bose gas

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Output type: Journal article

Author list: Schmidt M, Erne S, Nowak B, Sexty D, Gasenzer T

Publisher: IOP Publishing

Publication year: 2012

Journal: New Journal of Physics (1367-2630)

Volume number: 14

ISSN: 1367-2630

eISSN: 1367-2630

Languages: English-Great Britain (EN-GB)

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Open access status: gold

Full text URL: https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/14/7/075005

Abstract

Single-particle momentum spectra for a dynamically evolving one-dimensional Bose gas are analysed in the semi-classical wave limit. Representing one of the simplest correlation functions, these provide information on a possible universal scaling behaviour. Motivated by the previously discovered connection between (quasi-) topological field configurations, strong wave turbulence and non-thermal fixed points of quantum field dynamics, soliton formation is studied with respect to the appearance of transient power-law spectra. A random-soliton model is developed for describing the spectra analytically, and the analogies and differences between the emerging power laws and those found in a field theory approach to strong wave turbulence are discussed. The results open a new perspective on solitary wave dynamics from the point of view of critical phenomena far from thermal equilibrium and the possibility of studying this dynamics by experiment without the need for detecting solitons in situ.

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