Dynamics of Cosmological Phase Transitions: What Can We Learn from Condensed Matter Physics?
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✦ hep-ph
gr-qc
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transitioncondensedmatterphasebriefcoarse-grainingcontextscontinuous
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A brief outline is given of the description of phase transition kinetics in condensed matter systems with a continuous symmetry, emphasising the roles of dissipation, coarse-graining and scaling. The possible relevance of these ideas to the early universe is explored in the contexts of the GUT string transition and the electroweak transition.
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