Vortex-antivortex pair production in a first order phase transition

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 2035-2043

  Digal, Sanatan ^a   Sengupta, Supratim ^a   Srivastava, Ajit M ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (India)

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EID: 0009530149     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.56.2035     Document Type: Article

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