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Maxwell Construction for Scalar Field Theories with Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking
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Using a non-perturbative approximation for the partition function of a complex scalar model, which features spontaneous symmetry breaking, we explicitly derive the flattening of the effective potential in the region limited by the minima of the bare potential. This flattening occurs in the limit of infinite volume, and is a consequence of the summation over the continuous set of saddle points which dominate the partition function. We also prove the convexity of the effective potential and generalize the Maxwell Construction for scalar theories with O(N) symmetry. Finally, we discuss why the flattening of the effective potential cannot occur in the Abelian Higgs theory.
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