Vol. 53, No. 6
December 1999
pp. 1081–1085

A new mechanism of formation of topological defects

SUPRATIM SENGUPTA

Institute of Physics, Sachivalaya Marg, Bhubaneswar 751 005, India

Abstract.

In this talk we discuss a new mechanism of formation of topological defects due to enhanced magnitude oscillations of a complex scalar order-parameter (OP) field during bubble collisions in a first order phase transition.

Keywords Phase transitions; topological defects.

Pacs 02.40.-k

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