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Fully nonlinear numerical simulation of two dimensional Faraday waves between two incompressible and immiscible fluids is performed by adopting the phase-field method with the Cahn-Hilliard equation due to Jacqmin (1999) [J. Comput. Phys.,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2012-02-21 Kentaro Takagi , Takeshi Matsumoto

We study the possibility of forming the false vacuum bubble nucleated within the true vacuum background via the true-to-false vacuum phase transition in curved spacetime. We consider a semiclassical Euclidean bubble in the Einstein theory…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Wonwoo Lee , Bum-Hoon Lee , Chul H. Lee , Chanyong Park

We consider a theory of scalar QED on a spatially compact 1+1-dimensional spacetime. By considering a constant electric field pointing down the compact dimension, we compute the quantum effective action by integrating out the scalar degrees…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-29 Prasant Samantray , Suprit Singh

We have recently proposed a new general concept of macroscopic quantum-type experiment. It amounts to transform a classical fluid into a quantum-type fluid by the application of a quantum-like potential, either directly in a stationary…

General Physics · Physics 2009-01-12 Laurent Nottale

Motivated by recent studies of the one-bubble inflationary universe scenario that predicts a low density, negative curvature universe, we investigate the Euclidean vacuum mode functions of a scalar field in a spatially open chart of de…

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

We introduce an Eulerian approach for problems involving one or more soft solids immersed in a fluid, which permits mechanical interactions between all phases. The reference map variable is exploited to simulate finite-deformation…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-12-16 Boris Valkov , Chris H. Rycroft , Ken Kamrin

Viscous hydrodynamics serves as a successful mesoscopic description of the Quark-Gluon Plasma produced in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. In order to investigate, how such an effective description emerges from the underlying microscopic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-16 Stephan Ochsenfeld , Sören Schlichting

We investigate the gravitational wave spectrum from first-order QCD phase transitions using the parity doublet model at finite baryon chemical potential. The model incorporates the chiral invariant mass $m_0$, representing the portion of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-04-02 Bikai Gao , Jingdong Shao , Hong Mao

Considering the action for the theory $\lambda\phi^{4}$ for a massive scalar bosonic field as an entropy functional on the space of coupling constants and on the space of fields, we determine the gradient flows for the scalar field, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 R. Cartas-Fuentevilla , A. Olvera-Santamaria

Effective field theory descriptions of surface waves on flowing fluids have tended to assume that the flow is irrotational, but this assumption is often impractical due to boundary layer friction and flow recirculation. Here we develop an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-26 Alessia Biondi , Scott Robertson , Germain Rousseaux

Exact solutions are obtained in the quadratic theory of gravity with a scalar field for wave-like models of space-time with spatial homogeneity symmetry and allowing the integration of the equations of motion of test particles in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-10 K. E. Osetrin , I. V. Kirnos , E. K. Osetrin , A. E. Filippov

In this paper we present the power series solution of the Klein-Gordon equation in the spacetime background of a gravitational wave with amplitude that decays with distance from the source. The resulting solution describes the interaction…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-09 Jesse Elder , Todd Fugleberg

Using a fixed Eulerian mesh, the phase-field method has been successfully utilized for a broad range of moving boundary problems involving multiphase fluids and single-phase fluid-structure interaction. Nevertheless, multiphase fluids…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-02-19 Xiaoyu Mao , Rajeev Jaiman

We study the generation of gravitational waves (GWs) during a cosmological first-order phase transition (PT) using the recently introduced Higgsless approach to numerically simulate the fluid motion induced by the PT. We present for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-04 Chiara Caprini , Ryusuke Jinno , Thomas Konstandin , Alberto Roper Pol , Henrique Rubira , Isak Stomberg

The kinetic energy of the fluid shell in the cosmological first-order phase transition is crucial for predicting the gravitational wave signals generated by the sound wave mechanism. We propose a model-dependent method to calculate the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-06 Xiao Wang , Chi Tian , Fa Peng Huang

We present simulations within the framework of scalar-tensor theories, in the Newtonian limit, to investigate the influence of massive scalar fields on the dynamics of the collision of two equal spherical clouds. We employ a SPH code…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-16 M. A. Rodriguez-Meza , J. Klapp , J. L. Cervantes-Cota , H. Dehnen

This paper describes the results of our theoretical and numerical studies of hydrodynamic interactions in a suspension of spherical particles confined between two parallel planar walls, under creeping-flow conditions. We propose a novel…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Bhattacharya , J. Blawzdziewicz , E. Wajnryb

For a particle confined to the two-dimensional helical surface embedded in four-dimensional (4D) Euclidean space, the effective Hamiltonian is deduced in the thin-layer quantization formalism. We find that the gauge structure of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-03 Yong-Long Wang , Hong-Shi Zong , Hui Liu , Yan-Feng Chen

Taking into account the effect of self-interaction, the dynamics of the quantum fluctuations of the inflaton field with $\lambda\phi^4$ potential is studied in detail. We find that the self interaction efficiently drives the initial pure…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 Takahiro Tanaka , Masa-aki Sakagami

Performing a relativistic approximation as the generalization to a curved spacetime of the flat space Klein-Gordon equation, an effective Hamiltonian which includes non-minimial coupling between gravity and scalar field and also quartic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-02-16 Emine Mese , Nurettin Pirinccioglu , Irfan Acikgoz , Figen Binbay