Document Type

Article

Publication Date

4-29-1996

Publication Title

Physical Review Letters

Department

Department of Physics and Astronomy

Abstract

Lattice-based string formation algorithms can, at least in principle, be reduced to the study of the statistics of the corresponding aperiodic random walk. Since in three or more dimensions such walks are transient, this approach necessarily generates a population of open strings. To investigate whether open strings are an artifact of the lattice we develop an alternative lattice-free simulation of string formation. Replacing the lattice with a graph generated by a minimal dynamical model of a first-order phase transition we obtain results consistent with the hypothesis that the energy density in string is due to a scale-invariant Brownian distribution of closed loops alone.

DOI

10.1103/PhysRevLett.76.3255

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