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Lookup NU author(s): Dr Thomas BillamORCiD, Dr Kate Brown, Dr Andrew Groszek, Professor Ian MossORCiD
This is the authors' accepted manuscript of an article that has been published in its final definitive form by American Physical Society, 2021.
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We perform an analysis of the supercooled state in an analog of an early universe phase transition based on a one-dimensional, two-component Bose gas with time-dependent interactions. We demonstrate that the system behaves in the same way as a thermal, relativistic Bose gas undergoing a first-order phase transition. We propose a way to prepare the state of the system in the metastable phase as an analog to supercooling in the early universe. We show that parametric resonances in the system can be suppressed by thermal damping if the damping rate is similar to some of the higher rates previously used for modeling nonequilibrium experiments. However, the theoretically predicted damping rate for equilibrium systems within our model is too weak to suppress the resonances.
Author(s): Billam TP, Brown K, Groszek A, Moss IG
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Physical Review A
Year: 2021
Volume: 104
Issue: 5
Online publication date: 09/11/2021
Acceptance date: 21/10/2021
Date deposited: 10/11/2021
ISSN (print): 1050-2947
ISSN (electronic): 1094-1622
Publisher: American Physical Society
URL: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.104.053309
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.104.053309
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