On the finite temperature λϕ4 model. Is there a first order phase transition in (λϕ4)3?

A.P.C. Malbouisson and N.F. Svaiter

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1996, vol. 233, issue 1, 573-583

Abstract: We investigate the behavior at finite temperature of the massive λϕ4 model in a D-dimensional space time, performing a renormalization up to the order of one loop. In this approximation we show that the thermal mass increases with the temperature, while the thermal coupling constant decreases with the temperature. We establish that in the (λϕ4)3 model there is a temperature β∗−1 above which the coupling constant becomes negative. We argue that the system could develop a first-order-phase transition, where the origin corresponds to a metastable vacuum.

Date: 1996
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DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(96)00222-1

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