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Spontaneous formation of bags with negative surface energy

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We demonstrate within the Ginzburg-Landau model of a confining medium that the surface energy associated with the interface between the normal and the confining phases can be negative, and briefly discuss some consequences of this fact.

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  1. Jiří Hošek

    Present address: Institute of Nuclear Physics, Czechosl. Acad. Sci., 250 68, Řež, Czechoslovakia

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Dedicated to the memory of M. Gmitro.

This work was done at the Niels Bohr Institute Copenhagen, and put into its final form at the Institute of Theoretical Physics, of University of Regensburg. I thank both institutes for their generous hospitality and Professors Poul Olesen and Wolfram Weise for discussions.

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Hošek, J. Spontaneous formation of bags with negative surface energy. Czech J Phys 41, 1037–1041 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01598978

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