Classical behaviour after a phase transition

DOI10.1016/S0370-2693(01)01358-2MaRDI QIDQ5950421zbMATH OpenFDO

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

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

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

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).

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