1994/10/01 by João A. N. Filipe, Joao A. N. Filipe, A. J. Bray +1
Physics and Astronomy · #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Scientific Research and Discoveries #Theoretical and Computational Physics #astro-ph #cond-mat #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physreve.50.2523
published as Phys.Rev. E50 (1994) 2523-2537 · 26 pages(LaTeX), 7 figures(1 PS file)
openalex publication_date 1994/10/01 · arxiv created 1996/05/17 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The ordering dynamics of the Higgs field is studied, using techniques inspired by the study of phase ordering in condensed matter physics, as a step to understanding the evolution of cosmic structure through the formation of topological defects in the early universe. The common feature of these different physical processes is scaling. A fully analytical approximate scheme---the linear-Gaussian approach---is proposed to evaluate one-point, two-point, etc., scaling functions for the ordering dynamics of the O(n)-symmetric Higgs-field models.