Density of kinks after a quench: When symmetry breaks, how big are the pieces?

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 78, Issue 13, 1997, Pages 2519-2522

  Laguna, Pablo ^a,b   Zurek, Wojciech Hubert ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0001127864     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.78.2519     Document Type: Article

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