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The Effects of Multiplicative Noise in Relativistic Phase Transitions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-11 v1 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

Effective stochastic equations for the continuous transitions of relativistic quantum fields inevitably contain multiplicative noise. We examine the effect of such noise in a numerical simulation of a temperature quench in a 1+1 dimensional scalar theory. We look at out-of-equilibrium defect formation and compare our results with those of stochastic equations with purely additive noise.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0501168,
  title  = {The Effects of Multiplicative Noise in Relativistic Phase Transitions},
  author = {Nuno D. Antunes and Pedro Gandra and Ray J. Rivers},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0501168},
  year   = {2009}
}

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6 pages, 4 figures, submitted to PRD