Classical Behaviour After a Phase Transition: II. The Formation of Classical Defects

2002/02/05 by R. J. Rivers, F. C. Lombardo, F. D. Mazzitelli
Physics and Astronomy · #hep-ph #cond-mat #quant-ph

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published as Int.J.Theor.Phys. 41 (2002) 2145-2160 · 10 pages, no figures, to be published in the Proceedings of the Peyresq VI, Cosmological inflation and primordial fluctuations. Energy desert and submillimeter gravity, Peyresq, June 2001

arxiv created 2002/02/05 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30

Abstract

Classical defects (monopoles, vortices, etc.) are a characteristic consequence of many phase transitions of quantum fields. Most likely these include transitions in the early universe and such defects would be expected to be present in the universe today. We continue our analysis of the onset of classical behaviour after a second-order phase transition in quantum field theory and show how defects appear after such transitions

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