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Classical behaviour after a phase transition

Year: 2001

Type: article

Abstract: We analyze the onset of classical behaviour after a second-order phase transition by considering a scalar field theory in which the system-field interacts with its environment, represented both by further fields and by its own short-wavelength modes. Within our approximations we see that the long-wavelength modes have become classical by the time that the transition has been first implemented (the spinodal time).

Source: Physics Letters B

DOI: 10.1016/s0370-2693(01)01358-2

Authors: F.C. Lombardo, F.D. Mazzitelli, R.J. Rivers

Institutions: Imperial College London, Universidad de Buenos Aires

Language: English

Topic: Theoretical and Computational Physics

Subfield: Condensed Matter Physics

Field: Physics and Astronomy

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

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