Temperature-induced interaction: λtheory
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- 15 March 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 33 (6) , 1718-1725
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.33.1718
Abstract
We study the possibility that a field theory is interacting and bounded only above a certain temperature, while not existing below it. Within the Gaussian variational approximation used we find a phase for λ in four dimensions in which this phenomenon occurs.
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