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Density of kinks just after a quench in an underdamped system

Condensed Matter 2009-10-31 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

A quench in an underdamped one dimensional ϕ4\phi^4 model is studied by analytical methods. The density of kinks just after the transition is proportional to the square root of the rate of the quench for slow quenches. If the quench is shorter that the relaxation time, then the density scales like the third root of the rate.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9803185,
  title  = {Density of kinks just after a quench in an underdamped system},
  author = {Jacek Dziarmaga},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9803185},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

3 pages in Revtex; revised after discussion with Wojciech Zurek