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Finite-temperature effective potential of a system with spontaneously broken symmetry

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A quantum-mechanical system with spontaneously broken symmetry is considered, the effective potential is determined, and it is shown that with reduction of temperature the system undergoes a phase transition of the first kind.

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  1. E. P. Zemskov
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Yaroslavl State Technical University. Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 6, pp. 111–114, June, 1995.

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Zemskov, E.P. Finite-temperature effective potential of a system with spontaneously broken symmetry. Russ Phys J 38, 638–640 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00559935

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