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Flow Oriented Perturbation Theory (FOPT) is a novel approach to Feynman diagrams based on the coordinate (position) space description of Quantum Field Theories (QFT). FOPT offers interesting features regarding the computation of higher-loop…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-19 Alexandre Salas-Bernárdez , Michael Borinsky , Zeno Capatti , Eric Laenen

We describe a new mechanism of dark matter production in the early Universe, based on the dynamics of a first order phase transition. We assume that dark matter particles acquire mass during the phase transition, making it energetically…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-14 Michael J. Baker , Joachim Kopp , Andrew J. Long

We simulate the production of vortices in a first order phase transition at finite temperature. The transition is carried out by randomly nucleating critical bubbles and the effects of thermal fluctuations (which could be relevant for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-01 Sumantra Chakravarty , Ajit Mohan Srivastava

We present a novel \textit{gauge-invariant and minimal} formation mechanism of primordial black holes (PBHs) in first-order phase transition (FOPT) and domain walls (DW) separately. This is based on the first-order tensor perturbations,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-20 Utkarsh Kumar , Anish Ghoshal

Motivated by cosmological first-order phase transitions we examine the nucleation and evolution of vacuum bubbles in non-vacuum environments. Non-standard backgrounds can be relevant in the context of rapid tunneling processes on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-15 Aleksandar Rakic , Dennis Simon , Julian Adamek , Jens C. Niemeyer

We point out, according to the principle of entropy growth, that the volume occupied by the system in the momentum space should expand during the first-order phase transition. Such an expansion is visualized by the simulation using the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-09-01 Feng Li

In cosmological first-order phase transitions, the progress of true-vacuum bubbles is expected to be significantly retarded by the interaction between the bubble wall and the hot plasma. We examine the evolution and collision of slow-moving…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Anne-Christine Davis , Matthew Lilley

In the present thesis, the author reviews the physics of cosmological first-order phase transitions that may have occured shortly after the Big Bang. Such transitions proceed via the nucleation and expansion of true vacuum bubbles and give…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-16 Moritz Breitbach

The cosmological remnants of a first-order phase transition generally depend on the perturbations that the walls of expanding bubbles originate in the plasma. Several of the formation mechanisms occur when bubbles collide and lose their…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-17 Leonardo Leitao , Ariel Megevand

The effects of stochastic apppearence of embryos of a new phase are analyzed analytically. A new approach by the similarity of nucleation conditions is proposed. Corrections for a number of droplets are estimated. A comparison with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Victor Kurasov

We propose a mechanism that forms primordial black holes (PBHs) via a first-order electroweak phase transition (FOEWPT). The FOEWPT is realized by extending the Standard Model with a real singlet scalar, while the PBH formation is achieved…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-13 Peisi Huang , Ke-Pan Xie

First-order phase transitions occur through the nucleation of critical bubbles of the stable phase within the metastable phase. Using holography, we present a fully microscopic description of these bubbles in a strongly coupled,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-02 Carlos Hoyos , David Mateos , Wilke van der Schee , Javier G. Subils

We study the first-passage-time (FPT) properties of an active Brownian particle under stochastic resetting to its initial configuration, comprising its position and orientation, to reach an absorbing wall in two dimensions. Coupling a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-04-04 Yanis Baouche , Christina Kurzthaler

An approach was developed to describe the first passage time (FPT) in multistep stochastic processes with discrete states governed by a master equation (ME). The approach is an extension of the totally absorbing boundary approach given for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-01-15 Babak Shotorban

We consider first order cosmological phase transitions (PT) happening at late times, below Standard Model (SM) temperatures $T_{\rm PT} \lesssim$ GeV. The inherently stochastic nature of bubble nucleation and the finite number of bubbles…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-29 Gilly Elor , Ryusuke Jinno , Soubhik Kumar , Robert McGehee , Yuhsin Tsai

The microscopic model in which nodes interacting with each other are statistical systems is introduced. The nodes conditions are connected with a string of distinct microscopic configurations and depend on external parameters (pressure and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Stepanov

When the density of a nuclear system is decreased, homogeneous states undergo the so-called Mott transition towards clusterised states, e.g. alpha clustering, both in nuclei and in nuclear matter. Here we investigate such a quantum phase…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-07-15 J. -P. Ebran , M. Girod , E. Khan , R. D. Lasseri , P. Schuck

In this Letter, we numerically present the possibility of the first-order phase transition occurring through the thermal fluctuation in the early universe. We find that when the temperature is slightly higher than the mass scale of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-22 Ligong Bian , Yuefeng Di , Yongtao Jia , Yang Li , Kehao Zeng

We show that primordial black holes - in the observationally allowed mass window with $f_{\rm pbh}=1$ - formed from late nucleating patches in a first order phase transition imply upcoming gravitational wave interferometers will see a large…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-26 Iason Baldes , María Olalla Olea-Romacho

Phase transitions inside the pores of an aerogel are investigated by modelizing the aerogel structure by diffusion-limited cluster-cluster aggregation on a cubic lattice in a finite box and considering $q$-states Potts variables on the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Katarina Uzelac , Anwar Hasmy , Rémi Jullien