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Testing the Zurek-Kibble Causality Bounds with Annular Josephson Tunnel Junctions

Roberto Monaco, Ray Rivers, Eleftheria Kavoussanaki

cond-matarXiv:cond-mat/0105187

Abstract

Zurek has provided simple causal bounds for the onset of phase transitions in condensed matter, that mirror those proposed by Kibble for relativistic quantum field theory. In this paper we show how earlier experiments with annular Josephson tunnel Junctions are consistent with this scenario, and suggest how further experiments might confirm it.

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