%0 Journal Article %T Hot Nuclear Matter : A Variational Approach %A H. Mishra %A S. P. Misra %A P. K. Panda %A B. K. Parida %J Physics %D 1992 %I arXiv %R 10.1142/S0218301392000229 %X We develop a nonperturbative technique in field theory to study properties of infinite nuclear matter at zero temperature as well as at finite temperatures. Here we dress the nuclear matter with off-mass shell pions. The techniques of thermofield dynamics are used for finite temperature calculations. Equation of state is derived from the dynamics of the interacting system in a self consistent manner. The transition temperature for nuclear matter appears to be around 15 MeV. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/nucl-th/9211009v1