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PHYSICAL REVIEW A
Volume 80, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.80.041601
Keywords
metastable states; superfluidity; vortices; Wigner distribution
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- US-AFOSR YIP
- Sloan Foundation
- NSF [DMR-0907039, PHY-0822671]
- NRC/NIST
- Boston University
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We study the dynamics of the relative phase of a bilayer of two-dimensional superfluids after the two superfluids have been decoupled, using truncated Wigner approximation. On short time scales the relative phase shows light-cone-like thermalization and creates a metastable superfluid state, which can be supercritical. On longer time scales this state relaxes to a disordered state due to dynamical vortex unbinding. This scenario of dynamically suppressed vortex proliferation constitutes a reverse-Kibble-Zurek effect. We observe dynamics of creation of vortex-antivortex pairs and their consequent motion. Our predictions can be directly measured in interference experiments [Z. Hadzibabic , Nature (London) 441, 1118 (2006)].
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