Probing quantum statistical mechanics with Bose gases: Non-trivial order parameter topology from a Bose-Einstein quench

J. R. Anglin, W. H. Zurek

This is a less technical presentation of the ideas in quant-ph/9804035 [Phys Rev Lett 83 (1999), 1707-1710]. A second order phase transition induced by a rapid quench can lock out…