Quantum phase transition in space in a ferromagnetic spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensate
Bogdan Damski, Wojciech H. Zurek
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8 pages & 2 figures, to appear in NJP, lots of tiny improvements, more references, explicit derivation of the divergent healing length, same as before conclusions
A quantum phase transition between the symmetric (polar) phase and the phase with broken symmetry can be induced in a ferromagnetic spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensate in space (rather than in time). We consider such a phase transition and show that the transition region in the vicinity of the critical point exhibits scalings that reflect a compromise between the rate at which the transition is imposed (i.e., the gradient of the control parameter) and the scaling of the divergent healing length in the critical region. Our results suggest a method for the direct measurement of the scaling exponent nu.
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