Abstract
A Monte Carlo study of the Abelian Higgs model demonstrates a first-order phase transition between the Higgs phase and the Coulomb phase for a wide range of gauge and Higgs coupling constants. For small gauge coupling the discontinuity becomes very small, making it difficult to determine the order of the transition.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 2061-2065 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Physical Review D |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue number | 8 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1985 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)