Computation of the winding number diffusion rate due to the cosmological sphaleron

Physical Review B-Condensed Matter

Volumn 54, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 5010-5013

  Volkov, Mikhail S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

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