Simulating seeded vacuum decay in a cold atom system
High Energy Physics - Theory
2019-10-02 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Quantum Gases
Abstract
We propose to test the concept of seeded vacuum decay in cosmology using an analogue gravity Bose-Einstein condensate system. The role of the nucleation seed is played by a vortex within the condensate. We present two complementary theoretical analyses that demonstrate seeded decay is the dominant decay mechanism of the false vacuum. First, we adapt the standard instanton methods to the Gross-Pitaevskii equation. Second, we use the truncated Wigner method to study vacuum decay.
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@article{arxiv.1811.09169,
title = {Simulating seeded vacuum decay in a cold atom system},
author = {Thomas P. Billam and Ruth Gregory and Florent Michel and Ian G. Moss},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.09169},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
5 Pages, 4 figures, new intro in v2