Non-perturbative computation of the bubble nucleation rate in the cubic anisotropy model

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2001, Pages

  Moore, Guy D ^a,d   Rummukainen, Kari ^b   Tranberg, Anders ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b NORDITA   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cosmological phase transitions; Lattice quantum field theory; Nonperturbative effects; Thermal field theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744749643     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2001/04/017     Document Type: Article

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