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Thermal Fluctuations at Second Order Phase Transitions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-22 v1

Abstract

We construct a new coarse-grained effective potential which enables us to estimate the probabilities of thermal fluctuations above an arbitrary threshold at different length scales.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9307253,
  title  = {Thermal Fluctuations at Second Order Phase Transitions},
  author = {Mark Hindmarsh and R. J. Rivers},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9307253},
  year   = {2009}
}

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(LaTeX, 25pp plus 2 figs, available from [email protected]) DAMTP-93-28, Imperial/TP/92-93/40