The Production of Strings and Monopoles at Phase Transitions
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
We shall show that the density of defects produced at a second-order phase transition is determined by the correlation length of the fields. This is true both for defects appearing in the Ginzburg regime and for defects produced at a quench, when the Ginzburg regime is irrelevant. (Invited lectures given by R.J.R. to the Nato Advanced Study Institute and Euroconference on Formation and Interaction of Topological Defects, Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge (UK), September, 1994.)
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9412059,
title = {The Production of Strings and Monopoles at Phase Transitions},
author = {R. J. Rivers and T. S. Evans},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9412059},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
44 pages, LaTeX (figures included as LaTeX), available through anonymous ftp from ftp://euclid.tp.ph.ic.ac.uk/papers/94-5_06.tex or at http://euclid.tp.ph.ic.ac.uk/Papers/index.html