Classical behaviour after a phase transition

DOI10.1016/S0370-2693(01)01358-2zbMath0982.81031arXivhep-ph/0102152MaRDI QIDQ5950421

Fernando C. Lombardo, Ray J. Rivers, Francisco D. Mazzitelli

Publication date: 11 December 2001

Published in: Physics Letters. B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0102152

zbMATH Keywords

interacts with its environmentlong-wavelength modesscalar field theoryshort-wavelength modesspinodal time

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26) Axiomatic quantum field theory; operator algebras (81T05)

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