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Noble Gluscevich

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Excitation of Collective Modes in a Chiral Superfluid by Thermal Quench

Based on time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau field theory we show that rapid cooling through the second-order phase transition into superfluid $^3$He-A excites collective modes of newly formed chiral domains, in addition to topological defects that are formed via the Kibble-Zurek mechanism. Simulations of temperature quenches in the presence of Gaussian space-time white noise generate a highly excited inhomogeneous condensate. Large-scale simulations exhibit a complex network of domain walls and vortices. We report results for the excitation of bosonic collective modes by thermal noise as well as nonequilibrium temperature quenches, followed by coarsening dynamics tracked in terms of the Fourier components of the order parameter amplitudes. For thermal states, the spectrum of bosonic excitations is defined by a power spectral density (PSD) for each mode, which is sensitive to the Langevin damping. For weak damping the PSD onsets sharply at the frequency corresponding to the mass of the bosonic mode, then decays as $1/ω$. We also track the dynamics of the order parameter following a temperature quench. We report results for the scaling exponents of Kibble-Zurek freeze-out time and correlation length as a function of quench rate for several damping rates. The dynamical exponent $z$ is shown to transition smoothly from $z=1$ to $z=2$ as the damping is increased, while the correlation length exponent, $ν\approx 1/2$, is independent of damping.

cond-mat.supr-con

Kibble-Zurek Dynamics & Statistics of Topological Defects in Chiral Superfluid $^3$He Films

In equilibrium, confined films of superfluid $^3$He-A have the chiral axis, $\hat{\ell}$, locked normal to the surface of the film. There are two degenerate ground states $\hat{\ell}\;||\pm\hat{z}$. However, for a temperature quench, i.e. cool down through the phase transition at a finite rate, causally disconnected regions of order parameter fluctuations develop and evolve into an inhomogeneous ordered phase that hosts both domain walls between time-reversed chiral phases as well as vortices with winding numbers $p\in\mathbb{Z}$. We present simulations based on a time-dependent generalization of Ginzburg-Landau theory for strong-coupling $^3$He that reveal both types of topological defects to be present following the temperature quench. Results for the dynamics of vortices interacting with anti-vortices as well as domain walls are presented. The vortex number density as a function of quench rate agrees well with the scaling predicted by Kibble and Zurek. We also present results for the number distribution and compare with other theoretical models for full counting statistics of the topological defect density. Finally, we present results for an asymmetry in the post-freeze-out populations of inequivalent vortex core structures that are characteristic of a chiral superfluid.

cond-mat.supr-con

Dynamic mass generation on two-dimensional electronic hyperbolic lattices

Free electrons hopping on hyperbolic lattices embedded on a negatively curved space can foster (a) Dirac liquids, (b) Fermi liquids, and (c) flat bands, respectively characterized by a vanishing, constant, and divergent density of states near the half filling. From numerical self-consistent mean-field Hartree analyses, we show that nearest-neighbor Coulomb and on-site Hubbard repulsions respectively give rise to charge-density-wave and antiferromagnetic orders featuring staggered patterns of average electronic density and magnetization in all these systems, when the hyperbolic tessellation is accomplished by periodic arrangements of even $p$-gons. Both quantum orders dynamically open mass gaps near the charge neutrality point via spontaneous symmetry breaking. Only on hyperbolic Dirac materials these orderings take place via quantum phase transitions (QPTs) beyond critical interactions, which however decrease with increasing curvature, showcasing curvature-induced weak-coupling QPTs. We present scaling of these masses with the corresponding interaction strengths.

cond-mat.str-el