2010/04/20 by Awaneesh Singh, Singh, Awaneesh, Sanjay Puri +3
Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Classical mechanics #Condensed matter physics #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Kinetics #Massless particle #Material Dynamics and Properties #Metastability #Nuclear Theory (nucl-th) #Order (exchange) #Particle physics #Phase (matter) #Phase transition #Phenomenological model #Physics #Quantum mechanics #Quark #Scaling #Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech) #Strange matter #Theoretical and Computational Physics #Thermodynamics #cond-mat.stat-mech #hep-ph #nucl-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1004.3368
5 pages, 7 figures
arxiv created 2010/04/20 · openalex publication_date 2010/04/20 · arxiv updated 2010/04/21 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The kinetics of chiral transitions in hot and dense quark matter is studied via a microscopic framework (Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model) and a phenomenological model (Ginzburg-Landau free energy). We focus on the far-from-equilibrium ordering dynamics subsequent to a quench from the massless quark phase to the massive quark phase. The morphology of the ordering system is characterized by the scaling of the order-parameter correlation function. The domain growth process obeys the Allen-Cahn growth law, L(t)∼ t1/2. We also study the growth of bubble of the stable massive phase in a background of the metastable massive phase.