Simulation of vortex-antivortex pair production in a phase transition with explicit symmetry breaking

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 58, Issue 10, 1998, Pages

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

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (India)

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EID: 1542735965     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.58.103510     Document Type: Article

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