Published December 15, 1985
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Journal article
Strings at finite temperature
- 1. Departamento de Fisica, Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro, Cx.P. 38071, CEP 22453, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil
Description
We obtain a semiclassical evaluation of the temperature for which the free energy of the strings of spontaneously broken scalar electrodynamics vanishes. We argue that, above this temperature, these objects should play a significant physical role
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Phys. Rev., D
- Journal Volume
- 32
- Journal Issue
- 12
- Series
- Phys. Rev., D.
- Journal Page Range
- 3256-3260
- ISSN
- 0556-2821
- CODEN
- PRVDA
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 17030436
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; ELECTRODYNAMICS; FREE ENERGY; GAUGE INVARIANCE; LAGRANGIAN FUNCTION; PARTITION FUNCTIONS; RENORMALIZATION; SEMICLASSICAL APPROXIMATION; SPIN; STRING MODELS; SYMMETRY BREAKING; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE
- Descriptors DEC
- ANGULAR MOMENTUM; ENERGY; EXTENDED PARTICLE MODEL; FUNCTIONS; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLE MODELS; PARTICLE PROPERTIES; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES