Fate of the classical false vacuum

Details Fate of the classical false vacuum Fate of the classical false vacuum

2000-04-10

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0004059v2

Phys.Rev. D62 (2000) 085013

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

RevTeX 16 pages, 10 Postscript figures, version accepted in Phys. Rev. D

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.62.085013

Thermalisation of configurations with initial white noise power spectrum is studied in numerical simulations of a classical one-component $\Phi^4$ theory in 2+1 dimensions, coupled to a small amplitude homogenous external field. The study is performed for energy densities corresponding to the broken symmetry phase of the system in equilibrium. The effective equation of the order parameter motion is reconstructed from its trajectory which starts from an initial value near the metastable point and ends in the stable ground state. This phenomenological theory quantitatively accounts for the decay of the false vacuum. The large amplitude transition of the order parameter between the two minima displays characteristics reflecting dynamical aspects of the Maxwell construction.

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