Holographic boiling and generalized thermodynamic description beyond local equilibrium

Autor: Xin Li, Zhang-Yu Nie, Yu Tian
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol 2020, Iss 9, Pp 1-37 (2020)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1029-8479
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP09(2020)063
Popis: Abstract Tuning a very simple two-component holographic superfluid model, we can have a first order phase transition between two superfluid phases in the probe limit. In- spired by the potential landscape discussion, an intuitive physical picture for systems with first order phase transitions is provided. We stress that holography perfectly offers a generalized thermodynamic description of certain strongly coupled systems even out of local equilibrium, which enables us to carefully study domain wall structures of the system under first order phase transitions, either static or in real time dynamics. We numerically construct the 1D domain wall configuration and compute the surface tension of the domain wall from its generalized grand potential. We also numerically simulate the real time dynamics of a 2D bubble nucleation process (holographic boiling). The surface tension of the 1D domain wall nicely matches the final state of the 2D bubble nucleation process when the bubble radius is large enough.
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