Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
1999-11-04
Phys.Rev. D61 (2000) 085002
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
12 pages, revtex, 9 figures in eps format
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.61.085002
We study the formation of topological textures in a nonequilibrium phase transition of an overdamped classical O(3) model in 2+1 dimensions. The phase transition is triggered through an external, time-dependent effective mass, parameterized by quench timescale \tau. When measured near the end of the transition the texture separation and the texture width scale respectively as \tau^(0.39 \pm 0.02) and \tau^(0.46 \pm 0.04), significantly larger than \tau^(0.25) predicted from the Kibble-Zurek mechanism. We show that Kibble-Zurek scaling is recovered at very early times but that by the end of the transition the power-laws result instead from a competition between the length scale determined at freeze-out and the ordering dynamics of a textured system. In the context of phase ordering these results suggest that the multiple length scales characteristic of the late-time ordering of a textured system derive from the critical dynamics of a single nonequilibrium correlation length. In the context of defect formation these results imply that significant evolution of the defect network can occur before the end of the phase transition. Therefore a quantitative understanding of the defect network at the end of the phase transition generally requires an understanding of both critical dynamics and the interactions among topological defects.
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