Classical behaviour after a phase transition
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-11-07 v3 Condensed Matter
High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
We analyze the onset of classical behaviour after a second-order phase transition by considering a scalar field theory in which the system-field interacts with its environment, represented both by further fields and by its own short-wavelength modes. Within our approximations we see that the long-wavelength modes have become classical by the time that the transition has been first implemented (the spinodal time).
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0102152,
title = {Classical behaviour after a phase transition},
author = {F. C. Lombardo and F. D. Mazzitelli and R. J. Rivers},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0102152},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
12 pages, final version to appear in Phys. Lett. B