CQD Special Seminar

17. February 2020 11:15

Seminar room 2.404, Kirchhoff-Institut für Physik, INF 227

Activating new universality with the Kibble-Zurek mechanism

Dr. Steven Mathey
Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Cologne

The Kibble-Zurek mechanism takes place when a system is slowly driven through a second order phase transition. This produces a diabatic freeze out of critical fluctuations and cuts off the divergence of the correlation length. Recasting this problem in a systematic RG formulation, we show that the slow drive can be used to activate not only the leading critical exponents of the underlying equilibrium problem, but the full critical exponent spectrum. We thus uncover an aspect of the Kibble-Zurek phenomenology, where the underlying equilibrium critical physics provides multiple universal scaling regimes.

CQD Colloquium

12. November 2025 16:30 Uhr

INF 226, K1-3 (Goldbox)

tba

Dr Rob Smith, University of Oxford

PreTalk: Andreea Oros, KIP, Heidelberg University

CQD Special Seminar

4. November 2025 14:15 Uhr

Kirchhoff-Institut für Physik, INF 227, Seminar Box 2

Josephson supercurrents and vortex dynamics in binary Bose-Einstein condensates

Dr. Alice Bellettini, Department of Applied Science and Technology, Politecnico di Torino, Italy

Quantum bosonic gases, due to their manipulability, provide the perfect platform for observing macroscopic quantum many-body phenomena. These can be for example quantum vortices (“topological defects”), being the hallmark of superfluidity, or Josephson supercurrents. Such collective effects have been recently employed in the context of quantum simulation and atomtronics. Here, I will present my research on the properties of massive quantum vortices in different configurations, and on vortex-supported supercurrents.

I will go through the inertial effects governing the massive vortex dynamics, to then focus on dipole scattering processes and on Josephson supercurrents as well as self-trapping effects in two- and many-vortex systems. Finally, I will conclude with an overview of the open questions on the topic.

contact

Prof. Dr. M. Weidemüller
Physikalisches Institut
Im Neuenheimer Feld 226
69120 Heidelberg

06221-54 19470

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