The Production of Strings and Monopoles at Phase Transitions
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We shall show that the density of defects produced at a secondorder phase transition is determined by the correlation length of the fields. This is true both for defects appearing in the Ginzburg regime and for defects produced at a quench, when the Ginzburg regime is irrelevant.
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تاریخ انتشار 1994