Relaxing near the critical point

Physical Review D

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2001, Pages

  Boyanovsky, D ^a   De Vega, H J ^b   Simionato, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b LPTHE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COSMOS; DYNAMICS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PHASE TRANSITION; QUANTUM MECHANICS; QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0035085214     PISSN: 05562821     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.63.045007     Document Type: Article

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