Fluctuations at Phase Transitions
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
We use the closed time-path formalism to calculate fluctuations at phase transitions, both in and out of equilibrium. Specifically, we consider the creation of vortices by fluctuations, of relevance to the early universe and to superfluidity. (Invited talk to Nato Advanced Research Workshop on Electroweak Physics and the Early Universe, Sintra (Portugal), March 1994)
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9406297,
title = {Fluctuations at Phase Transitions},
author = {R. J. Rivers},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9406297},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
17 pages, LaTeX, Imperial/TP/93-94/39