Shear viscosity of hot scalar field theory in the real-time formalism

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2003, Pages

  Heinz, Ulrich ^b  

^a CENTRAL CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; THEORY; VISCOSITY;

EID: 0037438176     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.67.025022     Document Type: Article

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