First-order electroweak phase transitions: a nonperturbative update, videos

This deposit contains videos created from Monte-Carlo and Langevin simulations of the SU(2) Higgs model, related to the paper "First-order electroweak phase transitions: a nonperturbative update". There are two videos, both in MPEG-4 format. Both files show data at the parameter point \(x=0.0152473\), \(y=0.0303620\), \(ag_3^2= 4/7.332605\), \(L=60a\), \(\eta=10\), using the notation of the paper.

The file smoothing.mp4 shows the process of smoothing, or coarse-graining, the Higgs field, according to the method described in the section "Visualising bubble nucleation" of the paper. The particular configuration chosen is from the separatrix between phases, i.e. it is a critical bubble.

The file trajectory.mp4 shows a trajectory of the Langevin time evolution of a configuration starting in the symmetric phase and nucleating into the broken phase. The configurations in this trajectory have been smoothed, or coarse-grained, 10 times.