Universality regained: Kibble-Zurek dynamics, off-equilibrium scaling and the search for the QCD critical point
arXiv:1704.05427 · doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2017.06.049
Abstract
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 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.
arXiv comment4 pages, 6 figures, contribution to the proceedings of Quark Matter - XXVI international conference on ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions (Chicago, USA, February 5 to February 11, 2017), a minor typo corrected
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