Critical temperature for first-order phase transitions in confined systems

C. A. Linhares, A. P. C. Malbouisson, Y. W. Milla +1

We consider the Euclidean $D$-dimensional $-\lambda |\varphi {|}^4+\eta |\varphi {|}^6$ ($\lambda ,\eta >0$) model with $d$ ($d\le D$) compactified dimensions. Introducing temperature by means of the Ginzburg--Landau p…