title: Quench in the 1D Bose-Hubbard model: topological defects and excitations from the Kosterlitz-Thouless phase transition dynamics.
abstract: Kibble-Zurek mechanism (KZM) uses critical scaling to predict density of topological defects and other excitations created in second order phase transitions. We point out that simply inserting asymptotic critical exponents deduced from the immediate vicinity of the critical point to obtain predictions can lead to results that are inconsistent with a more careful KZM analysis based on causality - on the comparison of the relaxation time of the order parameter with the "time distance" from the critical point. As a result, scaling of quench-generated excitations with quench rates can exhibit behavior that is locally (i.e., in the neighborhood of any given quench rate) well approximated by the power law, but with exponents that depend on that rate, and that are quite different from the naive prediction based on the critical exponents relevant for asymptotically long quench times. Kosterlitz-Thouless scaling (that governs e.g. Mott insulator to superfluid transition in the Bose-Hubbard model in one dimension) is investigated as an example of this phenomenon.
authors.affiliation: Instytut Fizyki Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, ul. Reymonta 4, PL-30059 Kraków, Poland.
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authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Dziarmaga
authors.affiliation: Theoretical Division, LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA.
authors.forename: Wojciech H
authors.initials: WH
authors.lastname: Zurek
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