Finite-Size Effects on Nucleation in a First-Order Phase Transition

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2003-04-09

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0304094v2

Physica A345 (2004) 121-129

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

6 pages, no figures, 1 reference added

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We discuss finite-size effects on homogeneous nucleation in first-order phase transitions. We study their implications for cosmological phase transitions and to the hadronization of a quark-gluon plasma generated in high-energy heavy ion collisions. Very general arguments allow us to show that the finite size of the early universe has virtually no relevance in the process of nucleation and in the growth of cosmological bubbles during the primordial quark-hadron and the electroweak phase transitions. In the case of high-energy heavy ion collisions, finite-size effects play an important role in the late-stage growth of hadronic bubbles.

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