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cond-mat.supr-con2002★ 55 cited
Spontaneous Fluxon Formation in Annular Josephson Tunnel Junctions
Roberto Monaco, Jesper Mygind, Ray J. Rivers
It has been argued by Zurek and Kibble that the likelihood of producing defects in a continuous phase transition depends in a characteristic way on the quench rate. In this paper w…
hep-ph2002★ 1 cited
Classical Behaviour After a Phase Transition: II. The Formation of Classical Defects
R. J. Rivers, F. C. Lombardo, F. D. Mazzitelli
Classical defects (monopoles, vortices, etc.) are a characteristic consequence of many phase transitions of quantum fields. Most likely these include transitions in the early unive…