Spinodal instabilities and the dark energy problem

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 84, Issue 26, 2000, Pages 5936-5939

  Cormier, D ^a   Holman, R ^b  

^a TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

COSMOLOGY; DARK ENERGY PROBLEM; PSEUDO-NAMBU-GOLDSTONE BOSONS (PNGB); SPINODAL INSTABILITY;

ASTROPHYSICS;

ARTICLE;

EID: 0343826144     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.5936     Document Type: Article

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