scholarly journals Suppression of spinodal instability by disorder in an athermal system

2021 ◽  
Vol 104 (14) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tapas Bar ◽  
Arup Ghosh ◽  
Anurag Banerjee
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2015 ◽  
Vol 88 ◽  
pp. 00003 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Napolitani ◽  
M. Colonna ◽  
V. de la Mota

2006 ◽  
Vol 296 (1) ◽  
pp. 220-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruhi Verma ◽  
Ashutosh Sharma ◽  
Indrani Banerjee ◽  
Kajari Kargupta

2002 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sz. Borsányi ◽  
A. Patkós ◽  
D. Sexty
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2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maximilian Attems

Abstract A smoking gun signature for a first-order phase transition with negative speed of sound squared $$ {c}_s^2 $$ c s 2 is the occurrence of a spinodal instability. In the gauge/gravity duality it corresponds to a Gregory-Laflamme type instability, which can be numerically simulated as the evolution of unstable planar black branes. Making use of holography its dynamics is studied far from and near a critical point with the following results. Near a critical point the interface between cold and hot stable phases, given by its width and surface tension, is found to feature a wider phase separation and a smaller surface tension. Far away from a critical point the formation time of the spinodal instability is reduced. Across softer and harder phase transitions, it is demonstrated that mergers of equilibrated peaks and unstable plateaux lead to the preferred final single phase separated solution. Finally, a new atypical setup with dissipation of a peak into a plateau is discovered. In order to distinguish the inhomogeneous states I propose a new criterium based on the maximum of the transverse pressure at the interface which encodes phase-mixed peaks versus fully phase separated plateaux.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kimmo Kainulainen ◽  
Olli Koskivaara

Abstract We study the dynamical evolution of coupled one- and two-point functions of a scalar field in the 2PI framework at the Hartree approximation, including backreaction from out-of-equilibrium modes. We renormalize the 2PI equations of motion in an on-shell scheme in terms of physical parameters. We present the Hartree-resummed renormalized effective potential at finite temperature and critically discuss the role of the effective potential in a non-equilibrium system. We follow the decay and thermalization of a scalar field from an initial cold state with all energy stored in the potential, into a fully thermalized system with a finite temperature. We identify the non-perturbative processes of parametric resonance and spinodal instability taking place during the reheating stage. In particular we study the unstable modes in the region where the vacuum 1PI effective action becomes complex and show that such spinodal modes can have a dramatic effect on the evolution of the one-point function. Our methods can be easily adapted to simulate reheating at the end of inflation.


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