Breaking of a metastable string at finite temperature

A. Monin; M. B. Voloshin

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.78.125029

Breaking of a metastable string at finite temperature

A. Monin, M. B. Voloshin

Physics and Astronomy (Twin Cities)

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We consider the phase transition of a string with tension ε1 to a string with a smaller tension ε2 at finite temperature. For sufficiently small temperatures the transition proceeds through thermally catalyzed quantum tunneling, and we calculate in arbitrary number of dimensions the thermal catalysis factor. At ε2=0 the found formula for the decay rate also describes a breakup of a metastable string into two pieces.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	125029
Journal	Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
Volume	78
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.78.125029
State	Published - Dec 2 2008

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