Simulating cosmological supercooling with a cold atom system [CL]

http://arxiv.org/abs/2006.09820


We perform an analysis of the supercooled state in an analogue to an early universe phase transition based on a one dimensional, two-component Bose gas. We demonstrate that the thermal fluctuations in the relative phase between the components are characteristic of a relativistic thermal system. Furthermore, we demonstrate the equivalence of two different approaches to the decay of the metastable state: specifically a non-perturbative thermal instanton calculation and a stochastic Gross–Pitaevskii simulation.

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T. Billam, K. Brown and I. Moss
Thu, 18 Jun 20
42/84

Comments: 6 pages, 4 figures