Simple approach to finite-temperature symmetry restoration
- 15 February 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 29 (4), 739-742
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.29.739
Abstract
We describe a simple, intuitive picture of how thermal fluctuations in the fields of a system with spontaneously broken symmetry lead to symmetry-restoring phase transitions at finite temperature.Keywords
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