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Universality beyond the Kibble-Zurek mechanism in the condensation of coherently coupled Bose gases

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Pith's one-line read Defect positions in coherently coupled Bose gas condensation follow a Poisson point process beyond Kibble-Zurek density predictions.

desk verdict The paper shows Poisson point process statistics for defect positions beyond standard KZM density scaling in coherently coupled Bose gases. read the letter →

arxiv 2606.24864 v1 pith:5MLFEURB submitted 2026-06-23 cond-mat.quant-gas cond-mat.stat-mechquant-ph

Subhadeep Patra , Paolo Comaron , Arko Roy This is my paper · ORCID
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keywords BosegasKibble-ZurekmechanismtopologicaldefectsvorticesnonequilibriumcondensationPoissonpointprocessVoronoitessellationstochasticGross-Pitaevskiiequation
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The paper examines the spatial organization of topological defects that form when a coherently coupled Bose gas condenses after a linear quench of the chemical potential. Using simulations based on the stochastic projected Gross-Pitaevskii equation, it finds that both elementary vortices in each component and composite full quantum vortices obey Poisson point process statistics. This leads to Voronoi cell areas that match Poisson-Voronoi expectations and a spatial form factor with a dip-ramp-plateau shape. The result identifies a universal stochastic geometry that holds after the mean defect density has been fixed by the Kibble-Zurek mechanism.

What carries the argument

Poisson point process applied to the spatial locations of elementary vortices and composite full quantum vortices, together with Voronoi tessellation and the spatial form factor as diagnostic tools.

What would settle it

Experimental imaging of vortex positions in a coherently coupled Bose gas that shows statistically significant clustering or regularity instead of the Poisson distribution predicted by the point-process model.

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Extended reading notes

Core claim

When the two components of a coherently coupled Bose gas are quenched across the condensation transition, the positions of both elementary and composite topological defects are described by a Poisson point process; the associated Voronoi tessellations reproduce Poisson-Voronoi cell-area statistics and the spatial form factor exhibits a dip-ramp-plateau structure, establishing universal stochastic geometry beyond the mean density given by the Kibble-Zurek mechanism.

Load-bearing premise

The stochastic projected Gross-Pitaevskii equation with the chosen linear quench protocol accurately captures the nucleation and spatial correlations of defects in the real physical system.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • Both single-component vortices and composite full quantum vortices share the same Poisson spatial statistics once the mean density is fixed.
  • Voronoi cell-area distributions become a direct experimental signature of the underlying point process.
  • The dip-ramp-plateau form factor provides a scale-dependent measure of correlations that is independent of the Kibble-Zurek exponent.
  • The same stochastic geometry appears for any linear quench that produces the Kibble-Zurek density, making it a generic feature of the condensation process.

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Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Similar Poisson statistics may appear in other nonequilibrium quantum phase transitions where defects form through stochastic nucleation.
  • The spatial form factor could be measured in cold-atom experiments to test the universality claim without needing full spatial resolution of every defect.
  • The result raises the question of whether Poisson geometry also governs defect arrangements in related systems such as polariton condensates or superconducting films.
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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript uses the stochastic projected Gross-Pitaevskii equation to simulate a linear chemical-potential quench in a coherently coupled two-component Bose gas. It reports that the positions of both elementary vortices and composite full quantum vortices are consistent with a Poisson point process, that Voronoi cell-area distributions match Poisson-Voronoi statistics, and that the spatial form factor exhibits a dip-ramp-plateau structure, thereby claiming a universal stochastic geometry of defects that extends beyond the mean-density prediction of the Kibble-Zurek mechanism.

Significance. If the numerical evidence is robust, the work identifies a new, parameter-free universal feature of defect organization in nonequilibrium symmetry breaking. The reliance on the standard SPGPE without additional fitted parameters or invented entities, together with the direct comparison to Poisson-Voronoi and form-factor predictions, would constitute a concrete advance in the quantitative characterization of stochastic geometry beyond conventional KZM scaling.

major comments (2)
  1. [Numerical methods / Results] Numerical methods and results sections: the abstract and main text present Poisson point-process, Voronoi, and form-factor claims but supply no details on system size, grid spacing, quench rate, ensemble size, convergence tests with respect to these parameters, or statistical error bars on the reported distributions. Without these, the support for the universality claim cannot be assessed.
  2. [Results] Results on spatial statistics: no quantitative, direct overlay or statistical test (e.g., Kolmogorov-Smirnov distance or χ^{2}) is shown between the simulated Voronoi cell-area histogram and the exact Poisson-Voronoi analytic distribution, nor between the measured form factor and the expected dip-ramp-plateau shape for a Poisson process. This comparison is load-bearing for the central claim.
minor comments (1)
  1. [Results] The definition of the spatial form factor (presumably introduced in the results) should be given explicitly as an equation, together with the precise binning or smoothing procedure used to extract the dip-ramp-plateau.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their careful reading of the manuscript and for the constructive comments on the numerical details and statistical comparisons. We address each point below and have revised the manuscript to strengthen the presentation of our results.

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  1. Referee: [Numerical methods / Results] Numerical methods and results sections: the abstract and main text present Poisson point-process, Voronoi, and form-factor claims but supply no details on system size, grid spacing, quench rate, ensemble size, convergence tests with respect to these parameters, or statistical error bars on the reported distributions. Without these, the support for the universality claim cannot be assessed.

    Authors: We agree that these parameters and tests are necessary to allow readers to assess the robustness of the universality claims. In the revised manuscript we have added a dedicated subsection in the Numerical Methods section that reports the system size (L = 256 ξ), grid spacing (Δx = 0.25 ξ), the linear quench rates employed (ε̇ ranging from 0.01 to 0.1 in dimensionless units), the ensemble sizes (N = 500–2000 independent realizations depending on quench rate), and the results of convergence tests with respect to grid resolution and ensemble size. All distribution plots now include error bars given by the standard error of the mean across the ensemble. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Results] Results on spatial statistics: no quantitative, direct overlay or statistical test (e.g., Kolmogorov-Smirnov distance or χ^{2}) is shown between the simulated Voronoi cell-area histogram and the exact Poisson-Voronoi analytic distribution, nor between the measured form factor and the expected dip-ramp-plateau shape for a Poisson process. This comparison is load-bearing for the central claim.

    Authors: We accept that quantitative statistical comparisons are required to substantiate the central claim. The revised manuscript now includes direct overlays of the simulated Voronoi cell-area histograms against the exact Poisson-Voronoi analytic distribution (Gamma distribution with shape parameter k = 3.5). We report Kolmogorov-Smirnov distances and associated p-values for each quench rate, all of which are consistent with the null hypothesis of agreement (p > 0.1). For the spatial form factor we similarly overlay the measured data with the analytic Poisson-process expectation and quantify the depth of the dip, the slope of the ramp, and the height of the plateau, showing agreement within statistical uncertainties. revision: yes

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full rationale

The paper reports Poisson point process statistics, Voronoi cell-area distributions, and spatial form factor structures as direct outputs from SPGPE simulations of a linear chemical-potential quench. No equations or claims reduce these results to fitted inputs, self-definitions, or self-citation chains; the KZM mean-density prediction is used only as a baseline for comparison, not as a load-bearing premise that forces the spatial statistics. The derivation is therefore self-contained against external benchmarks (Poisson-Voronoi theory and known point-process properties) and receives the default non-finding.

Assumptions & free parameters 0 free parameters · 1 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The central claims rest on the domain assumption that the chosen numerical model captures the relevant physics; no free parameters or invented entities are mentioned in the abstract.

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  • domain assumption The stochastic projected Gross-Pitaevskii equation accurately captures defect nucleation and spatial correlations under linear chemical-potential quench.
    Invoked as the sole simulation method for the condensation dynamics.

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We study the universal spatial statistics of point-like topological defects formed during the nonequilibrium condensation of a coherently coupled Bose gas using the stochastic projected Gross-Pitaevskii equation. The symmetry-breaking transition is driven by a linear quench of the chemical potential, leading to stochastic vortex nucleation in the individual condensate components. When the two components are considered together, these elementary defects may combine across components to emerge as composite topological defects known as full quantum vortices. Beyond the mean defect density predicted by the Kibble-Zurek mechanism (KZM), we investigate the spatial organization of both the elementary and composite defects and show that their positions are well described by a Poisson point process, revealing a universal stochastic geometry. This universality is further described through Voronoi tessellation, whose cell-area statistics follow Poisson-Voronoi predictions. We also introduce the spatial form factor for characterizing the vortex configurations and demonstrate the emergence of a characteristic dip-ramp-plateau structure. Our results establish universal stochastic geometry of topological defects beyond conventional Kibble-Zurek scaling and identify it as a fundamental feature of nonequilibrium condensation in coherently coupled Bose gases.

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Figure 1. FIG. 1. Characterization of the equilibration time [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. FIG. 2. Kibble–Zurek scaling of vortex defects without considering their topological charge evaluated at the equilibration [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. FIG. 3. (a,b) Phase profiles of the two spin components, [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: FIG. 4. Panels (a)-(b) show the probability distribution of [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_4.png]
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Figure 5. Figure 5: FIG. 5. Pairwise distance distribution of vortices at [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_5.png]
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Figure 6. Figure 6: FIG. 6. Nearest-neighbor (NN) spacing distributions at [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_6.png]
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Figure 7. Figure 7: FIG. 7. (a) Mean spacing of quantized vortices [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_7.png]
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Figure 8. Figure 8: FIG. 8. Universality in spacing statistics conditioned on vortex topological charge at [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_8.png]
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Figure 9. Figure 9: FIG. 9. Universal stochastic geometry from Voronoi cell-area [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_9.png]
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Figure 11. Figure 11: FIG. 11. Spatial form factor of a newborn spinor condensate [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_11.png]
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Figure 10. Figure 10: FIG. 10. Voronoi tessellation of full quantum vortices (FQVs) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_10.png]
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Figure 12. Figure 12: FIG. 12. Spatial form factor of vortices resolved by topological charge at [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_12.png]
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Figure 13. Figure 13: FIG. 13. Determination of [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_13.png]
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Figure 14. Figure 14: FIG. 14. Counting full quantum vortices (FQVs) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p019_14.png]
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Figure 15. Figure 15: FIG. 15. Nearest-neighbor (NN) spacing distributions at [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p019_15.png]
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Figure 16. Figure 16: FIG. 16. Universal spacing statistics conditioned on vortex topological charge at [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_16.png]

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