Published November 2012
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Journal Article
Gravitational waves from global second order phase transitions
Abstract
Global second-order phase transitions are expected to produce scale-invariant gravitational wave spectra. In this manuscript we explore the dynamics of a symmetry-breaking phase transition using lattice simulations. We explicitly calculate the stochastic gravitational wave background produced during the transition and subsequent self-ordering phase. We comment on this signal as it compares to the scale-invariant spectrum produced during inflation.
Additional Information
© 2012 Institute of Physics. Received June 14, 2012. Revised September 12, 2012. Accepted October 3, 2012. Published November 5, 2012. We thank Latham Boyle, Andrew Tolley, Harsh Mathur and Katherine Jones-Smith for useful discussions. JTG is supported by the National Science Foundation, PHY-1068080, and a Cottrell College Science Award from the Research Corporation. The work of XS and BV is supported by National Science Foundation grants PHY-0970074, PHY-0955929, and PHY-0758155, and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Research Growth Initiative. Research at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics is supported by the Government of Canada through Industry Canada and by the Province of Ontario through the Ministry of Research & Innovation. JTG would also like to thank the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee for its generous hospitality while some of this research was completed. LRP would like to thank the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics for their hospitality while some of this work was being completed there.Additional details
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- PHY-1068080
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- Cottrell Scholar of Research Corporation
- PHY-0970074
- NSF
- PHY-0955929
- NSF
- PHY-0758155
- NSF
- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
- Industry Canada
- Province of Ontario Ministry of Research & Innovation
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