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hep-ph1995
Defect Production in Slow First Order Phase Transitions
Julian Borrill, T. W. B. Kibble, Tanmay Vachaspati +1
We study the formation of vortices in a U(1) gauge theory following a first-order transition proceeding by bubble nucleation, in particular the effect of a low velocity of expansio…
hep-ph1992
Decay of Metastable Topological Defects
John Preskill, Alexander Vilenkin
We systematically analyze the decay of metastable topological defects that arise from the spontaneous breakdown of gauge or global symmetries. Quantum-mechanical tunneling rates ar…