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
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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
Date issued
2017-09
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/118178
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Theoretical Physics; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science
Journal
Nuclear Physics A
Publisher
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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0375-9474
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