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Seeding the decay of the false vacuum

Lookup NU author(s): Matteo Canaletti, Professor Ian MossORCiD

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© 2024 authors. Published by the American Physical Society. We present a theory of false vacuum decay induced by spherical nucleation seeds. The type of seed considered has a boundary characterized by surface energy terms. The theory applies to false vacuum decay at zero and finite temperatures. Seeded nucleation may be important for enabling future false vacuum decay experiments on analog systems using Bose Einstein condensates (BEC). We show that our theory of seeded nucleation at finite temperature applied to a potassium BEC in two spatial dimensions agrees with numerical, real-time, simulations.

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Author(s): Canaletti M, Moss IG

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Physical Review D

Year: 2024

Volume: 110

Issue: 10

Online publication date: 21/11/2024

Acceptance date: 23/10/2024

Date deposited: 17/12/2024

ISSN (print): 2470-0010

ISSN (electronic): 2470-0029

Publisher: American Physical Society

URL: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.110.105015

DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.110.105015

Data Access Statement: Data supporting this publication are openly available in http://dx.doi.org/10.25405/data.ncl.26797480

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