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Prediction of the Curie temperature is of significant importance for the design of ferromagnetic materials. Even though the Curie temperature has been estimated using the Heisenberg model, magnetic exchange coupling parameters widely used…
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We study the symmetry breaking phenomenon in the standard model during the electroweak phase transition in the presence of a constant hypermagnetic field. We compute the finite temperature effective potential up to the contribution of ring…
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