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The Effects of Multiplicative Noise in Relativistic Phase Transitions

Nuno D. Antunes, Pedro Gandra, Ray J. Rivers

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/0501168

Abstract

Effective stochastic equations for the continuous transitions of relativistic quantum fields inevitably contain multiplicative noise. We examine the effect of such noise in a numerical simulation of a temperature quench in a 1+1 dimensional scalar theory. We look at out-of-equilibrium defect formation and compare our results with those of stochastic equations with purely additive noise.

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