The Kibble-Zurek mechanism describes the defects creation in a system that crosses a second order phase transition.@
In aggreement with such a theory we directly observed the presence of solitons in a sodium BEC.
As expected the number of these defects follows a power-law with the cooling speed.
G. Lamporesi et al., Nature Physics, 9, 656-660 (2013)
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