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Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 130402 (2007) [4 pages]

Dynamics of a Quantum Phase Transition in a Ferromagnetic Bose-Einstein Condensate

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Bogdan Damski and Wojciech H. Zurek
Theory Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, MS-B213, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA

Received 9 April 2007; published 25 September 2007

We discuss dynamics of a slow quantum phase transition in a spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensate. We analytically determine the scaling properties of the system magnetization and verify them with numerical simulations in a one dimensional model.

© 2007 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.130402
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.130402
PACS:
05.30.Jp, 03.75.Kk, 03.75.Mn, 32.80.Pj