Triggering Higgs vacuum decay by Alessandro Strumia

“…Abstract The Standard Model Higgs potential seems unstable at field values h > h top ~ 1010 GeV. Vacuum decay can be triggered by N ~ 4π/λ ~ 1000 overlapped Higgs bosons with energy λ $$ \sqrt{\lambda } $$ h top. …”
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Seeded vacuum decay with Gauss-Bonnet by Ruth Gregory, Shi-Qian Hu

“…Abstract We investigate false vacuum decay catalysed by black holes under the influence of the higher order Gauss-Bonnet term. …”
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Cosmological constraints on two vacuum decay models by Yupeng Yang, Yicheng Wang, Xinyi Dai

“…These values of $$H_0$$ H 0 fall between those derived from the Planck and SH0ES data, suggesting that these two vacuum decay models could provide a potential solution to alleviate the Hubble tension problem.…”
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Quantum master equation for the vacuum decay dynamics by Hong Wang, Jin Wang

“…Abstract The quantum master equation required to describe the dynamics of gravity-related vacuum decay is still challenging. We aim to study this issue. …”
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Thin-wall vacuum decay in the presence of a compact dimension by Ignatios Antoniadis, Daniele Bielli, Auttakit Chatrabhuti, Hiroshi Isono

“…Abstract We study the problem of false vacuum decay in arbitrary dimensions, in the presence of gravity, and compute the transition probability within the thin-wall approximation, generalising the results of Coleman and de Luccia. …”
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Confinement and false vacuum decay on the Potts quantum spin chain by Octavio Pomponio, Anna Krasznai, Gábor Takács

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Establishment and verification of the tightness inspection method of blood products by Xiaojie ZHAO, Yali WANG, Yunfei ZHAO, Qiming ZHANG, Mingxiang SONG, Lingli GUO, Zi DOU, Jipeng ZHANG, Xiao LIU

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New Classes of Solutions for Euclidean Scalar Field Theories by Carl M. Bender, Sarben Sarkar

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Strong Coupling Dynamics of a Quantum Emitter near a Topological Insulator Nanoparticle by Ioannis Thanopulos, Vassilios Yannopapas, Emmanuel Paspalakis

“…We study the spontaneous emission evolution of a quantum emitter for various transition frequencies in the terahertz and various vacuum decay rates. For short vacuum decay times, we observe non-Markovian spontaneous emission dynamics, which correspond perfectly to values of well-established measures of non-Markovianity and possibly indicate considerable dynamical quantum speedup. …”
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Bubble velocities and oscillon precursors in first-order phase transitions by Dalila Pîrvu, Matthew C. Johnson, Sergey Sibiryakov

“…Describing the dynamics of a phase transition out of a false vacuum via the nucleation of bubbles is essential for understanding the cosmology of vacuum decay and the full spectrum of observables. In this paper, we study vacuum decay by numerically evolving ensembles of field theories in 1+1 dimensions from a metastable state. …”
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Feasibility testing and development for non-destructive inspection of seals by Mohammed Imran

“…The experiment was conducted on three different non-destructive testing methods which were, Pure Vacuum Decay Tester (Oxipack), Pressure Induced Deformation Measurement (PIDM) and the Capacitive Imaging (CI) method. …”
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Testing Higher Derivative Gravity through Tunnelling by Ruth Gregory, Shi-Qian Hu

“…We discuss how signatures can show up in tunnelling processes and whether these will likely be physically accessible in Higgs vacuum decay.…”
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Spinning primordial black holes from first order phase transition by Indra Kumar Banerjee, Ujjal Kumar Dey

“…Abstract We conduct a novel study to obtain the initial spin of the primordial black holes created during a first-order phase transition due to delayed false vacuum decay. Remaining within the parameter space consistent with observational bounds, we express the abundance and the initial spin of the primordial black holes as functions of the phase transition parameters. …”
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Introduction to Thermal Field Theory: From First Principles to Applications by Alberto Salvio

“…A more applicative part of the review is dedicated to the production of particles in a medium and to phase transitions in field theory, including the process of vacuum decay in a general theory featuring a first-order phase transition. …”
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Boosted dark matter from a phantom fluid by James M. Cline, Matteo Puel, Takashi Toma

“…We set constraints on such models using data from the XENONnT experiment, and we show that recent excess events reported by the DAMIC experiment can be consistently described as coming from dark radiation, produced by vacuum decay, interacting with electrons.…”
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Primordial black holes from slow phase transitions: a model-building perspective by Shinya Kanemura, Masanori Tanaka, Ke-Pan Xie

“…Abstract We investigate the formation of primordial black holes (PBHs) through delayed vacuum decay during slow cosmic first-order phase transitions. …”
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BubbleDet: a Python package to compute functional determinants for bubble nucleation by Andreas Ekstedt, Oliver Gould, Joonas Hirvonen

“…This gives the next-to-leading order correction to both the vacuum decay rate, at zero temperature, and to the bubble nucleation rate in first-order phase transitions at finite temperature. …”
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Ising meson spectroscopy on a noisy digital quantum simulator by Christopher Lamb, Yicheng Tang, Robert Davis, Ananda Roy

“…We show that existing noisy quantum machines can be used to analyze the energy spectrum of several strongly-interacting 1+1D QFTs, which exhibit non-perturbative effects like ‘quark confinement’ and ‘false vacuum decay’. We perform quench experiments on IBM’s quantum simulators to compute the energy spectrum of 1+1D quantum Ising model with a longitudinal field. …”
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Walls, bubbles and doom — the cosmology of HEFT by R. Alonso, J.C. Criado, R. Houtz, M. West

“…Cosmology allows for such phenomena, and this work focuses on HEFT SMEFT, the less explored of the two options, to find that first order phase transitions with detectable gravitational wave remnants, domain wall formation and vacuum decay in the far, far distant future can take place and single out HEFT SMEFT. …”
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General bounds on holographic complexity by Engelhardt, Netta, Folkestad, Åsmund

“…The result features a number of parallels with the positive energy theorem, including the assumption of an energy condition that excludes false vacuum decay (the AdS weak energy condition). Our proof is rigorously established in broad generality in four bulk dimensions, and we provide strong evidence in favor of a generalization to arbitrary dimensions. …”
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