Nucleation of Kinks in 1 + 1 Dimensions
- 31 October 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 73 (18) , 2394-2397
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.73.2394
Abstract
The nucleation rate of kink-antikink pairs in a sine-Gordon theory at finite temperature is calculated analytically and compared with the results of recent numerical simulations by other authors. The application to the theory of the Bordoni peak is discussed in some detail.Keywords
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