Dynamics of Cosmological Phase Transitions: What Can We Learn from Condensed Matter Physics?
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2007-05-23 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
A brief outline is given of the description of phase transition kinetics in condensed matter systems with a continuous symmetry, emphasising the roles of dissipation, coarse-graining and scaling. The possible relevance of these ideas to the early universe is explored in the contexts of the GUT string transition and the electroweak transition.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9411380,
title = {Dynamics of Cosmological Phase Transitions: What Can We Learn from Condensed Matter Physics?},
author = {Nigel Goldenfeld},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9411380},
year = {2007}
}
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12 pages, Latex, no figures