English
Related papers

Related papers: Dynamics of false vacuum bubbles: beyond the thin …

200 papers

Scalar field theory with an asymmetric potential is studied at zero temperature and high-temperature for $\phi^6$ potential. The equations of motion are solved numerically to obtain O(4) spherical symmetric and O(3) cylindrical symmetric…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-13 Hatem Widyan

We study spherically symmetric, self-similar wormhole solutions supported by colliding streams of negative-energy null dust, and their dynamical formation. Under the assumption of self-similarity, the Einstein equations reduce to a system…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-17 Yasutaka Koga , Ryota Maeda , Daiki Saito , Daisuke Yoshida

The collapse of thin dust shells in 2+1 dimensional gravity with and without a cosmological constant in analyzed. A critical value of the shell's mass as a function of its radius and position is derived. For $\Lambda < 0$, a naked…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-12-30 Yoav Peleg , Alan Steif

We study the backreaction of quantum fields induced through the vacuum polarization and the conformal anomaly on the collapse of a thin shell of dust. It is shown that the final fate of the collapse process depends on the physical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-19 Moslem Shafiee , Yousef Bahrampour

This article explores the cosmological scenario in which our Universe contains a hidden thin-shell configuration. We investigate a degenerate modification of the Friedmann-Robertson-Walker metric obtained through a coordinate transformation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-16 Mauricio Cataldo , Antonella Cid , Pedro Labraña

In this work we study the imprints of bubble nucleation on primordial inflationary perturbations. We assume that the bubble is formed via the tunneling of a spectator field from the false vacuum of its potential to its true vacuum. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-12-27 Hassan Firouzjahi , Sadra Jazayeri , Asieh Karami , Tahereh Rostami

Vacuum bubbles may nucleate and expand during the inflationary epoch in the early universe. After inflation ends, the bubbles quickly dissipate their kinetic energy; they come to rest with respect to the Hubble flow and eventually form…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-16 Jaume Garriga , Alexander Vilenkin , Jun Zhang

We study the dynamical evolution of a phase interface or bubble in the context of a \lambda \phi^4 + g \phi^6 scalar quantum field theory. We use a self-consistent mean-field approximation derived from a 2PI effective action to construct an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 Y. Bergner , Luis M. A. Bettencourt

False vacuum decay is a potential mechanism governing the evolution of the early Universe, with profound connections to non-equilibrium quantum physics, including quenched dynamics, the Kibble-Zurek mechanism, and dynamical metastability.…

Based on the recently introduced black-bounce spacetimes, we shall consider the construction of the related spherically symmetric thin-shell traversable wormholes within the context of standard general relativity. All of the really unusual…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-23 Francisco S. N. Lobo , Alex Simpson , Matt Visser

We construct a black hole whose interior is the false vacuum and whose exterior is the true vacuum of a classical field theory. From the outside the metric is the usual Schwarzschild one, but from the inside the space is de Sitter with a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 R. G. Daghigh , J. I. Kapusta , Y. Hosotani

Theories with compact extra dimensions can exhibit a vacuum instability known as a bubble of nothing. These decay modes can be obstructed if the internal manifold is stabilized by fluxes, or if it carries Wilson lines for background gauge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-17 Patrick Draper , Benjamin Lillard , Carissa Skye

In this paper, we explore the nucleation of vacuum bubbles in the Brans-Dicke type theory of gravity. In the Euclidean signature, we evaluate the fields at the vacuum bubbles as solutions of the Euler-Lagrange equations of motion as well as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-08-08 Hongsu Kim , Bum-Hoon Lee , Wonwoo Lee , Young Jae Lee , Dong-han Yeom

We study strongly supercooled cosmological phase transitions. We perform numerical lattice simulations of two-bubble collisions and demonstrate that, depending on the scalar potential, in the collision the field can either bounce to a false…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-13 Marek Lewicki , Ville Vaskonen

We study the evolution of bubble spacetimes in vacuum and electrovac scenarios by numerical means. We find strong evidence against the formation of naked singularities in (i) scenarios with negative masses displaying initially collapsing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Olivier Sarbach , Luis Lehner

The nucleation and evolution of bubbles are investigated in the model of an $O(3)$-symmetric scalar field coupled to gravity in the high temperature limit. It is shown that, in addition to the well-known bubble of which the inside region is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Yoonbai Kim , Kei-ichi Maeda , Nobuyuki Sakai

The galactic supershells are cavities in the interstellar medium. These shells can be explained by introducing the concept of superbubbles, the theoretical result of multiple supernova. The superbubbles can be analytically described if the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Lorenzo Zaninetti

We generalize the fractal bubble model (FB), recently proposed in the literature as an alternative to the standard $\Lambda$CDM cosmology, to include a non-zero cosmological constant. We retain the same volume partition of voids and walls…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-01-30 Stefano Viaggiu

We assess the effects of a collision between two vacuum bubbles in the thin-wall limit. After describing the outcome of a generic collision possessing the expected hyperbolic symmetry, we focus on collisions experienced by a bubble…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Anthony Aguirre , Matthew C Johnson

To clarify observational consequence of bubble nucleations in inflationary era, we analyse dynamics of a spherical domain wall in an expanding universe. We consider a spherical shell of the domain wall with tension $\sigma$ collapsing in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-08-06 Norihiro Tanahashi , Chul-Moon Yoo