2005/04/30 by Nuno D. Antunes, Pedro Gandra, R. J. Rivers +1
Physics and Astronomy · #Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence #Quantum many-body systems #Theoretical and Computational Physics #cond-mat.stat-mech #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.73.125003
published as Phys.Rev. D73 (2006) 125003 · 6 pages, 3 figs, final extended version published in PRD
openalex publication_date 2006/06/05 · arxiv created 2006/07/17 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
There is increasing evidence that causality provides useful bounds in determining the domain structure after a continuous transition. In devising their scaling laws for domain size after such a transition, Zurek and Kibble presented arguments in which causality is important both before and after the time at which the transition begins to be implemented. Using numerical simulations of kinks in 1+1 dimensions, we explain how the domain structure is determined exclusively by what happens after the transition, even though the correlation length freezes in before the transition.