Universality regained: Kibble-Zurek dynamics, off-equilibrium scaling and the search for the QCD critical point

作者：Mukherjee Swagato^*; Venugopalan Raju; Yin Yi

来源：Nuclear Physics A, 2017, 967: 820-823.

DOI：10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2017.06.049

• QCD critical point
• critical fluctuations
• non-Gaussian cumulants
• critical slowing down

We generalize and apply the key elements of the Kibble-Zurek framework of nonequilibrium phase transitions to study the non-equilibrium critical cumulants near the QCD critical point. We demonstrate that the off-equilibrium critical cumulants are expressible as universal scaling functions. We discuss how to use off-equilibrium scaling to provide powerful model-independent guidance in searches for the QCD critical point.

• 出版日期2017-11
• 单位MIT