Universality regained: Kibble-Zurek dynamics, off-equilibrium scaling and the search for the QCD critical point
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Mukherjee, Swagato
Venugopalan, Raju
Yin, Yi
Date Issued
September 2017
Journal
Nuclear Physics A
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Elsevier
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Mukherjee, Swagato, Raju Venugopalan, and Yi Yin. “Universality Regained: Kibble-Zurek Dynamics, Off-Equilibrium Scaling and the Search for the QCD Critical Point.” Nuclear Physics A 967 (November 2017): 820–823 © 2017 The Author(s)
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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 that 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. Keywords:
QCD critical point; critical fluctuations; non-Gaussian cumulants; critical slowing down
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Theoretical Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2017.06.049
