Onset of classical behaviour after a phase transition

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2004-12-14

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0412151v1

Braz.J.Phys. 35 (2005) 397-402

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

Seven pages, no figures. Contributed talk to the Second International Workshop DICE2004, Piombino, Italy. To be published in t

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We analyze the onset of classical behaviour in a scalar field after a continuous phase transition, in which the system-field, the long wavelength order parameter of the model, interacts with an environment of its own short-wavelength modes. We compute the decoherence time for the system-field modes from the master equation and compare it with the other time scales of the model. Within our approximations the decoherence time is in general the smallest dynamical time scale. Demanding diagonalisation of the decoherence functional produces identical results. The inclusion of other environmental fields makes diagonalisation occur even earlier.

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