Thermal Fluctuations at Second Order Phase Transitions

Abstract

We construct a new coarse-grained effective potential which enables us to estimate the probabilities of thermal fluctuations above an arbitrary threshold at different length scales.

(LaTeX, 25pp plus 2 figs, available from [email protected]) DAMTP-93-28, Imperial/TP/92-93/40

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