# Domain-area distribution anomaly in segregating multicomponent superfluids

## TL;DR

This paper investigates the universal and system-specific features of domain-area distributions during phase separation in binary superfluids, revealing a hierarchical scaling law and anomalies due to quantum-fluid effects through theoretical and numerical analysis.

## Contribution

It introduces a hierarchical scaling theory for domain-area distributions in 2D coarsening dynamics and confirms it with large-scale simulations of binary Bose--Einstein condensates.

## Key findings

- Universal power-law in macroscopic regime matches percolation theory.
- Microscopic regime exponent is sensitive to microscopic dynamics.
- Anomalous exponent behavior due to quantum-fluid vortex effects.

## Abstract

The domain-area distribution in the phase transition dynamics of ${\rm Z}_2$ symmetry breaking is studied theoretically and numerically for segregating binary Bose--Einstein condensates in quasi-two-dimensional systems. Due to the dynamic scaling law of the phase ordering kinetics, the domain-area distribution is described by a universal function of the domain area, rescaled by the mean distance between domain walls. The scaling theory for general coarsening dynamics in two dimensions hypothesizes that the distribution during the coarsening dynamics has a hierarchy with the two scaling regimes, the microscopic and macroscopic regimes with distinct power-law exponents. The power law in the macroscopic regime, where the domain size is larger than the mean distance, is universally represented with the Fisher's exponent of the percolation theory in two dimensions. On the other hand, the power-law exponent in the microscopic regime is sensitive to the microscopic dynamics of the system. This conjecture is confirmed by large-scale numerical simulations of the coupled Gross--Pitaevskii equation for binary condensates. In the numerical experiments of the superfluid system, the exponent in the microscopic regime anomalously reaches to its theoretical upper limit of the general scaling theory. The anomaly comes from the quantum-fluid effect in the presence of circular vortex sheets, described by the hydrodynamic approximation neglecting the fluid compressibility. It is also found that the distribution of superfluid circulation along vortex sheets obeys a dynamic scaling law with different power-law exponents in the two regimes. An analogy to quantum turbulence on the hierarchy of vorticity distribution and the applicability to chiral superfluid $^3$He in a slab are also discussed.