Quantum-Field-Theoretic Simulation Platform for Observing the Fate of the False Vacuum

By S. Abel, Michael Spannowsky. 2021

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A framework for simulating nonperturbative effects of field theory using a quantum annealer is presented and implemented.

Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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Citations in the corpus

• Taiji program: Gravitational-wave sources (2018, background): “In the first process, the false vacuum decays into the true vacuum via quantum tunnelling and the true vacuum bubbles are nucleated [54].”
• Gravitational waves from first order cosmological phase transitions in the Sound Shell Model (2019, background): “Thermal or quantum fluctuations drive the field over or through an activation barrier, in small bubbles of the stable phase, which expand and fill up the entire space [6, 7].”