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Topological defect formation in a phase transition with tunable order
Fumika Suzuki, Wojciech H. Zurek
The Kibble-Zurek mechanism (KZM) describes the non-equilibrium dynamics and topological defect formation in systems undergoing second-order phase transitions. KZM has found applica…
Amplification, Redundancy, and the Quantum Chernoff Information
Michael Zwolak, C. Jess Riedel, Wojciech H. Zurek
Amplification was regarded, since the early days of quantum theory, as a mysterious ingredient that endows quantum microstates with macroscopic consequences, key to the "collapse o…
The Objective Past of a Quantum Universe: Redundant Records of Consistent Histories
C. Jess Riedel, Wojciech H. Zurek, Michael Zwolak
Motivated by the advances of quantum Darwinism and recognizing the role played by redundancy in identifying the small subset of quantum states with resilience characteristic of obj…
Topological relics of symmetry breaking: Winding numbers and scaling tilts from random vortex-antivortex pairs
Wojciech H. Zurek
I show that random distributions of vortex-antivortex pairs (rather than of individual vortices) lead to scaling of typical winding numbers W trapped inside a loop of circumference…
Causality and non-equilibrium second-order phase transitions in inhomogeneous systems
A. del Campo, T. W. B. Kibble, W. H. Zurek
When a second-order phase transition is crossed at fine rate, the evolution of the system stops being adiabatic as a result of the critical slowing down in the neighborhood of the…
Symmetry Breaking and Topological Defect Formation in Ion Coulomb Crystals
Karsten Pyka, Jonas Keller, Heather L. Partner +9
Symmetry breaking phase transitions play an important role in nature. When a system traverses such a transition at a finite rate, its causally disconnected regions choose the new b…