title: Testing the Kibble-Zurek mechanism in Rayleigh-Bénard convection.
abstract: We report experimental evidence of the fact that, in an emerging Rayleigh-Bénard structure, the density of defects which appear scales as a power law in the rate of change of the control parameter. The scaling exponents agree with those calculated from the Kibble-Zurek mechanism. This is the first evidence to our knowledge that this mechanism works in a hydrodynamical system.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics and Applied Mathematics, Universidad de Navarra, Irunlarrea s/n, E-31080 Pamplona, Spain.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Casado
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: González-Viñas
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Mancini