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Testing nucleation theory in two dimensions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-09 v2 High Energy Physics - Lattice High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We calculate bubble-nucleation rates for (2+1)-dimensional scalar theories at high temperature. Our approach is based on the notion of a real coarse-grained potential. The region of applicability of our method is determined through internal consistency criteria. We compare our results with data from lattice simulations. Good agreement is observed when the renormalized action of the simulated theory is known.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9904246,
  title  = {Testing nucleation theory in two dimensions},
  author = {Alessandro Strumia and Nikolaos Tetradis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9904246},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

12 pages, 2 figures. Final version; minor misprints corrected