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We generalize the standard computation of homogeneous nucleation theory at zero temperature to a scenario in which the bubble shape is determined self-consistently with its quantum fluctuations. Studying two scalar models in 1+1 dimensions,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Y. Bergner , Luis M. A. Bettencourt

We investigate quantum tunneling in the theory of a complex scalar field with a global $U(1)$ symmetry when the charge density of the initial configuration does not vanish. We discuss the possible final configurations and set up the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 Kimyeong Lee

The functional determinant of a special second order quantum-mechanical operator is calculated with its zero mode gauged out by the method of the Faddeev-Popov gauge fixing procedure. This operator subject to periodic boundary conditions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-09-28 A. O. Barvinsky , A. Yu. Kamenshchik

We numerically study the evolution of a classical real scalar field in ${(1+1)}$ dimensions with initial conditions describing thermal fluctuations around a metastable vacuum. We track false vacuum decay in real time and compare several…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-06 Dalila Pîrvu , Andrey Shkerin , Sergey Sibiryakov

In the field of computational fluid dynamics, direct numerical simulations generate highly detailed data for the analysis of turbulent flows by resolving all relevant physical scales. Yet their large size, complexity, and heterogeneity make…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-26 Lorenzo Piu , Heinz Pitsch , Alessandro Parente

The Small Body Dynamics Tool (SBDynT) is software written for the community of Solar System small body researchers to perform dynamical classification, characterization, and investigation. SBDynT provides advanced simulation analysis…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-31 Dallin Spencer , Kat Volk , Darin Ragozzine , Renu Malhotra

We study analytically and numerically the decay of a metastable phase in (2+1)-dimensional classical scalar field theory coupled to a heat bath, which is equivalent to two-dimensional Euclidean quantum field theory at zero temperature. By a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-22 M. Alford , M. Gleiser

Bubble chambers are promising technologies for detecting low-energy nuclear recoils from the elastic scattering of dark matter particle candidates. Bubble nucleation occurs when the energy deposition exceeds a specific threshold defined…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-17 Xiang Li , Marie-Cécile Piro

Strong first-order phase transitions (SFOPT) during the evolution of the Higgs potential in the early universe not only allow for the dynamical generation of the observed matter-antimatter asymmetry, they can also source a stochastic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-12 Philipp Basler , Lisa Biermann , Margarete Mühlleitner , Jonas Müller , Rui Santos , João Viana

We calculate the spectrum of gravitational waves originated from strongly first order electroweak phase transition in the extended Higgs model with a real singlet field. In order to calculate the bubble nucleation rate, we perform a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-01-04 Katsuya Hashino , Mitsuru Kakizaki , Shinya Kanemura , Pyungwon Ko , Toshinori Matsui

We study the dynamics of cosmological phase transitions in the case of small velocities of bubble walls, $v_w<0.1$. We discuss the conditions in which this scenario arises in a physical model, and we compute the development of the phase…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-14 Ariel Megevand , Santiago Ramirez

Modeling boiling (an inherently chaotic, multiphase process central to energy and thermal systems) remains a significant challenge for neural PDE surrogates. Existing models require future input (e.g., bubble positions) during inference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Sheikh Md Shakeel Hassan , Xianwei Zou , Akash Dhruv , Vishwanath Ganesan , Aparna Chandramowlishwaran

We present a study of the role of fermions in the decay of metastable states of a scalar field via bubble nucleation. We analyze both one and three-dimensional systems by using a gradient expansion for the calculation of the fermionic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 D. G. Barci , E. S. Fraga , C. A. A. de Carvalho

In the absence of governing equations, dimensional analysis is a robust technique for extracting insights and finding symmetries in physical systems. Given measurement variables and parameters, the Buckingham Pi theorem provides a procedure…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-11 Joseph Bakarji , Jared Callaham , Steven L. Brunton , J. Nathan Kutz

Bumblebee is a foundation model for particle physics discovery, inspired by BERT. By removing positional encodings and embedding particle 4-vectors, Bumblebee captures both generator- and reconstruction-level information while ensuring…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-12-12 Andrew J. Wildridge , Jack P. Rodgers , Ethan M. Colbert , Yao yao , Andreas W. Jung , Miaoyuan Liu

We compute second-order quantum corrections, as quantum dispersions and correlations, to a cosmological model coupling a single scalar perturbation mode to a bouncing background within Loop Quantum Cosmology (LQC). Using an effective…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-19 Héctor Hernández Hernández , Hugo Morales Técotl , Gustavo Sánchez Herrera

The terminal wall velocity of a first-order phase transition bubble can be calculated from a set of fluid equations describing the scalar fields and the plasma's state. We rederive these equations from the energy-momentum tensor…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-13 Benoit Laurent , James M. Cline

Motivated by bubble nucleation in first order phase transitions, we question the validity of the effective potential for inhomogeneous configurations. In an attempt to get some insight into the importance of derivative terms, we analyze a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 Scott Dodelson , Ben-Ami Gradwohl

A bubble chamber has been developed to be used as an active target system for low energy nuclear astrophysics experiments. Adopting ideas from dark matter detection with superheated liquids, a detector system compatible with gamma-ray beams…

We present a unified description of first-order cosmological phase transition dynamics that links the phenomenological friction model employed in hydrodynamic simulations to the microscopic treatment based on Boltzmann equations. We derive…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-26 Tomasz Krajewski , Marek Lewicki , Marco Merchand , Ignacy Nałęcz , Mateusz Zych