Kibble-Zurek mechanism in a polariton supersolid
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
2025-12-22 v1 Quantum Gases
Abstract
We study the formation of topological defects via the Kibble-Zurek mechanism in a polariton supersolid in a liquid crystal microcavity with tunable Rashba-Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling. We predict analytically two different scalings in the slow- and fast-quench regimes, and confirm these predictions numerically. We also present experimental results for the slow-quench regime, demonstrating an original Kibble-Zurek scaling exponent
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@article{arxiv.2512.17362,
title = {Kibble-Zurek mechanism in a polariton supersolid},
author = {Dmitry Solnyshkov and Rafal Mirek and Darius Urbonas and Etsuki Kobiyama and Pietro Tassan and Ioannis Georgakilas and Rainer F. Mahrt and Michael Forster and Ullrich Scherf and Marcin Muszynski and Wiktor Piecek and Piotr Kapuściński and Jacek Szczytko and Thilo Stoferle and Guillaume Malpuech},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.17362},
year = {2025}
}