Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-11-1998
Publication Title
Physics Letters, B
Department
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Abstract
We investigate the matching between (1+1)-dimensional nonlinear field theories coupled to an external stochastic environment and their lattice simulations. In particular, we focus on how to obtain numerical results which are lattice-spacing independent, and on how to extract the correct effective potential which emerges from the simulations. As an application, we study the thermal production of kink-antikink pairs, obtaining a number density of pairs which is lattice-spacing independent and the
DOI
10.1016/S0370-2693(97)01595-5
Dartmouth Digital Commons Citation
Gleiser, Marcelo and Muller, Hans-Reinhard, "How To Count Kinks. From the Continuum to the Lattice And Back" (1998). Dartmouth Scholarship. 2031.
https://digitalcommons.dartmouth.edu/facoa/2031