Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2003-07-29
Phys.Rev. D69 (2004) 043513
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
7 pages, 4 figures. Minor changes, final version accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.69.043513
We study the formation of domain walls in a phase transition in which an S_5\times Z_2 symmetry is spontaneously broken to S_3\times S_2. In one compact spatial dimension we observe the formation of a stable domain wall lattice. In two spatial dimensions we find that the walls form a network with junctions, there being six walls to every junction. The network of domain walls evolves so that junctions annihilate anti-junctions. The final state of the evolution depends on the relative dimensions of the simulation domain. In particular we never observe the formation of a stable lattice of domain walls for the case of a square domain but we do observe a lattice if one dimension is somewhat smaller than the other. During the evolution, the total wall length in the network decays with time as t^{-0.71}, as opposed to the usual t^{-1} scaling typical of regular Z_2 networks.
Antunes Nuno D.
Pogosian Levon
Vachaspati Tanmay
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