Kinetics of Phase Transitions in Quark Matter

Abstract

We study the kinetics of chiral transitions in quark matter using a phenomenological framework (Ginzburg-Landau model). We focus on the effect of inertial terms on the coarsening dynamics subsequent to a quench from the massless quark phase to the massive quark phase. The domain growth process shows a crossover from a fast inertial regime [with $L(t)\sim t(\ln t{)}^{1/2}$] to a diffusive Cahn-Allen regime [with $L(t)\sim t^{1/2}$].

17 pages with 4 figures. Published in Euro Physics Letters (EPL). arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1209.6137, arXiv:1101.0500

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