Classical Behaviour After a Phase Transition: II. The Formation of Classical Defects
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2007-05-23 v1 Condensed Matter
Quantum Physics
Abstract
Classical defects (monopoles, vortices, etc.) are a characteristic consequence of many phase transitions of quantum fields. Most likely these include transitions in the early universe and such defects would be expected to be present in the universe today. We continue our analysis of the onset of classical behaviour after a second-order phase transition in quantum field theory and show how defects appear after such transitions
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0202041,
title = {Classical Behaviour After a Phase Transition: II. The Formation of Classical Defects},
author = {R. J. Rivers and F. C. Lombardo and F. D. Mazzitelli},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0202041},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
10 pages, no figures, to be published in the Proceedings of the Peyresq VI, Cosmological inflation and primordial fluctuations. Energy desert and submillimeter gravity, Peyresq, June 2001