It has been argued by Zurek and Kibble that the likelihood of producing defects in a continuous phase transition depends in a characteristic way on the quench rate. In this paper we discuss our experiment for measuring the Zurek-Kibble scaling exponent $\sigma $ for the production of fluxons in annular symmetric Josephson Tunnel Junctions. The predicted exponent is $% \sigma =0.25$, and we find $\sigma =0.27\pm 0.05$. Further, there is agreement with the ZK prediction for the overall normalisation.
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Monaco, R., & Rivers, R. J. (2003). Scaling Laws for Fluxon Formation in Annular Josephson Tunnel Junctions. In Patterns of Symmetry Breaking (pp. 197–207). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1029-0_7
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