Classical Behaviour After a Phase Transition: I. Classical Order Parameters
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2007-05-23 v1 Condensed Matter
Quantum Physics
Abstract
We analyze the onset of classical field configurations after a phase transition. Firstly, we motivate the problem by means of a toy model in quantum mechanics. Subsequently, we consider a scalar field theory in which the system-field interacts with its environment, represented both by further scalar fields and by its own short-wavelength modes. We show that, for very rapid quenches, the order parameter can be treated classically by the time that it has achieved its ground state values (spinodal time).
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0202042,
title = {Classical Behaviour After a Phase Transition: I. Classical Order Parameters},
author = {F. C. Lombardo and R. J. Rivers and F. D. Mazzitelli},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0202042},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
12 pages, 8 figures, to be published in the Proceedings of the Peyresq VI, Cosmological inflation and primordial fluctuations. Energy desert and submillimeter gravity, Peyresq, June 2001