From: Cheryl Endicott <cheryle@bu.edu>
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 11:01:09 -0400
To: ccs-l@bu.edu, scfug-l@bu.edu, announce@bu-ast.bu.edu, all@buphy.bu.edu
Subject: Joint CCS > Condensed Matter Seminar - TODAY - PRB595 - Marcelo Gleiser - Dartmouth
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Joint CCS and Condensed Matter Seminar
Friday - April 27, 2007
12:00 noon
Physics Research Building - Room 595
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Professor Marcelo Gleiser - Department of Physics & Astronomy - Dartmouth
"Oscillons: Properties and Applications of the Lumps that Wouldn't Die"
I will present some properties of oscillons, time-dependent localized
configurations that are
surprisingly long-lived, examining their existence in an arbitrary
number of spatial dimensions
and in several models, including the Abelian Higgs model. I will then
show how the presence
of oscillons after a rapid quench can dramatically speed-up the
nucleation rate in first order
phase transitions in 2 and 3 spatial dimensions, turning the usual
exponential suppression of
homogeneous nucleation into a power law.
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