Universality regained: Kibble-Zurek dynamics, off-equilibrium scaling and the search for the QCD critical point
We generalize and apply the key elements of the Kibble-Zurek framework of nonequilibrium phase transitions to study the non-equilibrium critical cumulants near the QCD critical point. We demonstrate that the off-equilibrium critical cumulants are expressible as universal scaling functions. We discus...
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| author | Mukherjee, Swagato Venugopalan, Raju Yin, Yi |
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| description | We generalize and apply the key elements of the Kibble-Zurek framework of nonequilibrium phase transitions to study the non-equilibrium critical cumulants near the QCD critical point. We demonstrate that the off-equilibrium critical cumulants are expressible as universal scaling functions. We discuss how to use off-equilibrium scaling to provide powerful model-independent guidance in searches for the QCD critical point. Keywords:
QCD critical point; critical fluctuations; non-Gaussian cumulants; critical slowing down |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1181782022-10-01T01:13:35Z Universality regained: Kibble-Zurek dynamics, off-equilibrium scaling and the search for the QCD critical point Mukherjee, Swagato Venugopalan, Raju Yin, Yi Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Theoretical Physics Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science Yin, Yi We generalize and apply the key elements of the Kibble-Zurek framework of nonequilibrium phase transitions to study the non-equilibrium critical cumulants near the QCD critical point. We demonstrate that the off-equilibrium critical cumulants are expressible as universal scaling functions. We discuss how to use off-equilibrium scaling to provide powerful model-independent guidance in searches for the QCD critical point. Keywords: QCD critical point; critical fluctuations; non-Gaussian cumulants; critical slowing down United States. Department of Energy (Grant DESC0011090) 2018-09-26T17:25:27Z 2018-09-26T17:25:27Z 2017-09 2018-09-20T12:56:17Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 0375-9474 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/118178 Mukherjee, Swagato, Raju Venugopalan, and Yi Yin. “Universality Regained: Kibble-Zurek Dynamics, Off-Equilibrium Scaling and the Search for the QCD Critical Point.” Nuclear Physics A 967 (November 2017): 820–823 © 2017 The Author(s) http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2017.06.049 Nuclear Physics A Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ application/pdf Elsevier Elsevier |
| spellingShingle | Mukherjee, Swagato Venugopalan, Raju Yin, Yi Universality regained: Kibble-Zurek dynamics, off-equilibrium scaling and the search for the QCD critical point |
| title | Universality regained: Kibble-Zurek dynamics, off-equilibrium scaling and the search for the QCD critical point |
| title_full | Universality regained: Kibble-Zurek dynamics, off-equilibrium scaling and the search for the QCD critical point |
| title_fullStr | Universality regained: Kibble-Zurek dynamics, off-equilibrium scaling and the search for the QCD critical point |
| title_full_unstemmed | Universality regained: Kibble-Zurek dynamics, off-equilibrium scaling and the search for the QCD critical point |
| title_short | Universality regained: Kibble-Zurek dynamics, off-equilibrium scaling and the search for the QCD critical point |
| title_sort | universality regained kibble zurek dynamics off equilibrium scaling and the search for the qcd critical point |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/118178 |
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