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hep-ph1993
Dynamics of Cosmological Phase Transitions
D. Boyanovsky, H. J. de Vega, R. Holman
The dynamics of typical phase transitions is studied out of equilibrium in weakly coupled inflaton-type scalar field theories in Minkowski space. The shortcomings of the effective…
hep-ph1993
Quantum Statistical Metastability Revisited
D. Boyanovsky, R. Holman, D. -S. Lee +2
We calculate the decay rate for a state prepared in a thermal density matrix centered on a metastable ground state. We find a rate that is intrinsically time {\it dependent}, as op…