Real-time finite-temperature evolution equation for the Higgs field in an expanding universe
- 15 October 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 36 (8) , 2598-2601
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.36.2598
Abstract
We display the renormalized one-loop evolution equation for the expectation value ≡〈φ of the field operator φ in a λ theory in spatially flat Robertson-Walker space-times, subject to the initial condition that the system was in thermal equilibrium at a temperature T at some initial time.
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