Monte Carlo study of very weakly first-order transitions in the three-dimensional Ashkin-Teller model

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 501, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 803-837

  Arnold, Peter ^a   Zhang, Yan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Ashkin Teller model; Early universe; Electroweak phase transitions; Monte Carlo numerical simulations; Weakly first order phase transitions; expansion

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031583547     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00405-7     Document Type: Article

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