Finite Temperature Effective Potential in the Hartree-Fock Approximation

Abstract

In order to investigate the nature of the phase transition, we study the finite temperature effective potential for the $\lambda {\Phi }^4$ theory in the Hartree-Fock approximation, which sums up all the daisy and superdaisy diagrams.

LaTex + epsf, 10 pages, 3 figures included, to appear in the Proceedings of the III Workshop on Thermal Field Theories and Their Applications, Banff, Canada, August 15-27, 1993, MIT-CTP-2255, BU-HEP-93-26