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Quantum models of spacetime have been conjectured to hypothetically allow for the formation of Planck scale wormholes. Building on the proposal of Morris, Thorne, and Yurtsever that such microscopic spacetime structures might be enlarged to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-28 Philipp Dorau , Albert Much

In the thin wall approximation, we study a class of asymptotically AdS black holes which contain a spherically symmetric vacuum bubble with a different (positive or negative) cosmological constant. Collapsing, expanding, and static bubble…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-05 Roberto Auzzi , Stefano Baiguera , Lihan Guo , Giuseppe Nardelli , Nicolò Zenoni

In quantum field theory, the decay of an extended metastable state into the real ground state is known as ``false vacuum decay'' and it takes place via the nucleation of spatially localized bubbles. Despite the large theoretical effort to…

In the context of the open inflationary universe, we calculate the amplitude of quantum fluctuations which deform the bubble shape. These give rise to scalar field fluctuations in the open Friedman-Robertson-Walker universe which is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Jaume Garriga

In the path integral approach to false vacuum decay with the effect of gravity, there is an unsolved problem, called the negative mode problem. We show that the appearance of a supercritical supercurvature mode in the one-bubble open…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-09 Takahiro Tanaka , Misao Sasaki

We consider novel wormhole solutions supported by a matter content that minimally violates the null energy condition. More specifically, we consider an equation of state in which the sum of the energy density and radial pressure is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-10 Mariam Bouhmadi-Lopez , Francisco S. N. Lobo , Prado Martin-Moruno

In this work the model is constructed to describe the black hole enclosed in the dust cosmological background in case of zero spatial curvature. This model is based on our exact solution of the class of LTB inhomogeneous solutions. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-29 Pavlina Jaluvkova , Elena Kopteva , Zdenek Stuchlik

Considering the popularity of two-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations, a 2D model of plasma wakefield in the strongly nonlinear (bubble) regime in transversely non-uniform plasma is developed. A differential equation for the boundary…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-11-15 A. A. Golovanov , I. Yu. Kostyukov

We simulate the behaviour of a Higgs-like field in the vicinity of a Schwarzschild black hole using a highly accurate numerical framework. We consider both the limit of the zero-temperature Higgs potential, and a toy model for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-02-13 Dina Traykova , Jonathan Braden , Hiranya V. Peiris

We reveal the existence of a new form of spontaneously scalarized black-hole configurations. In particular, it is proved that Reissner-Nordstr\"om black holes in the highly charged regime $Q/M>(Q/M)_{\text{crit}}=\sqrt{21}/5$ can support…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-02-23 Shahar Hod

We derive the coupled dynamics between the bubble wall and the plasma from first principles using nonequilibrium quantum field theory. The commonly used equation of motion of the bubble wall in the kinetic approach is shown to be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-14 Wen-Yuan Ai , Matthias Carosi , Bjorn Garbrecht , Carlos Tamarit , Miguel Vanvlasselaer

We study the evolution of light spectator fields in an asymmetric polynomial potential. During inflation, stochastic fluctuations displace the spectator field from the global minimum of its potential, populating the false vacuum state and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-03 David Navidad Maeso , Luca Marzola , Martti Raidal , Ville Vaskonen , Hardi Veermäe

Following the work of H. Ellis, we study warp drives in the gravitational field of a Schwarzschild black hole. We find that as long as the warp drive crosses the black hole horizon at a subluminal speed, the horizon would be effectively…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-20 Remo Garattini , Kirill Zatrimaylov

We consider reflection-asymmetric thin-shell wormholes within Palatini $f(\mathcal{R})$ gravity using a matching procedure of two patches of electrovacuum space-times at a hypersurface (the shell) via suitable junction conditions. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-05 Merce Guerrero , Gonzalo J. Olmo , Diego Rubiera-Garcia

In this paper, we introduce higher dimensional thin-shell wormholes in pure Gauss-Bonnet gravity. The focus is on thin-shell wormholes constructed by $N\geq5$-dimensional spherically symmetric vacuum solutions. The results suggest that,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-25 S. Danial Forghani , S. Habib Mazharimousavi

We establish the dynamical instability of a static, spherically symmetric, and infinitesimally thin shell in general relativity. The shell is made up of a perfect fluid with a barotropic equation of state, and it produces a Schwarzschild…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-08 Tristan Pitre , Berend Schneider , Eric Poisson

Recently, there are comparable revised interests in bubble nucleation seeded by black holes. However, it is debated in the literature that whether one shall interpret a static bounce solution in the Euclidean Schwarzschild spacetime (with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-17 Wen-Yuan Ai

Building upon the recent findings regarding inverse phase transitions in the early universe, we present the first natural realisation of this phenomenon within a supersymmetry-breaking sector. We demonstrate that inverse hydrodynamics,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-31 Giulio Barni , Simone Blasi , Miguel Vanvlasselaer

The theory of false vacuum decay in a thermal system may have a cross-over from predominantly thermal transitions to quantum transitions as the temperature is decreased. New numerical methods and results are presented here that can be used…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-01 Mario Gutierrez Abed , Ian G. Moss

We investigate the gravitational behavior of spherical domain walls (bubbles) arising during the phase transitions in the early Universe. In the thin-wall approximation we show the existence of the new solution of Einstein equations with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Andro Barnaveli , Merab Gogberashvili